What this is
LODance Opportunities is the public face of an event-ingestion pipeline. We crawl studio websites, ICS feeds, Eventbrite, and other public sources every few hours, parse what we find, and publish what looks legitimate. We also accept direct submissions from organizers and dancers.
The framing matters: this is an engine, not an inventory. On any given day, the event list isn't a snapshot of everything happening — it's a snapshot of what our pipeline has currently surfaced. Coverage compounds over time as our crawlers learn and as more organizers submit. If you don't see something you know about, please submit it — every submission makes the next dancer's search better.
Where the events come from
Three sources. In practice almost everything you see was crawled — the submission route below is open but has not yet brought in a listing:
- Direct submissions from studio owners, instructors, organizers, and dancers. This route is open but new: nothing on the site has arrived through it yet, and there is no reviewer rota behind it, so a submission is held until someone looks rather than published on a timetable.
- Studio & venue websites with public class schedules or event calendars. We parse ICS feeds, JSON-LD metadata, and HTML pages.
- Event platforms like Eventbrite. We use the official APIs where available, and we respect rate limits and terms of service.
We don't scrape Facebook events — Facebook's terms make that difficult to do legitimately. If a Facebook event is the authoritative source, please submit it directly.
Weekly digest
Every metro we cover gets an optional weekly email summarizing the coming week's events — classes, socials, workshops, and competitions in one scan-friendly list. It's the quickest way to stay current without checking the site every day. Browse events here.
How we handle quality
Most listings clear an automatic bar before they go up. Each candidate carries a confidence score out of 100 recording how completely and consistently its source described the event, and the hourly publisher promotes only those scoring 90 or above. A smaller number publish on a different basis: a source we have marked trusted, or an explicit accept verdict, vouches for the event whatever its score. Candidates that fall short are held rather than published — that holding queue is real and has rows waiting in it, but nobody works it on a schedule yet, so treat it as a parking place and not as a promise of human review. False positives still happen — if you spot a typo, a wrong venue, or a duplicate, the correction form on every event detail page closes the loop fast.
Who's behind this
LODance is built by Perry Chaffee, a longtime social dancer in the Boston / New England scene. The Opportunities Engine is one of a few tools LODance ships; it's the one you'll find at lodance.app/opportunities.
Questions, corrections, partnerships
Email hello@lodance.app. We read every message.