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Best Place to Flash Your Well-Worn Hippie Card

Ecstatic Dance Tucson at the Rhythm Industry Performance Factory

One needs to go no further than the utopian mission statement to understand that the ideals that fueled the Woodstock Nation are alive and well. Aside from that, most hippie types (as the movie Woodstock showed us) do love to dance, and the Rhythm Industry Performance Factory provides an ideal environment for one to become completely zombified and immersed in the rhythms of pre-recorded mix tapes blaring everything from techno to soul to R&B to old-time hippie-rock. Every third Saturday features a guest DJ who also “facilitates” the first 30 minutes. The expansive wooden dance floor—which demands a barefoot approach—completes the scene. For those given to flashbacks, the only thing missing is the mud