02.14.09: Get Off...Line VII: Steamy Valentine's Night
"Best (and Only) Russian-bathhouse Dance Party" - Village Voice "Best of 2006"
Saturday, Feb 14, Valentine's Day, 7pm-2am
Banya, 602 Coney Island Ave bet Beverley Rd & Ave C, Kensington, BK (map) Q to Beverley Rd (30 min from midtown--NOT in Coney Island) Cross Marlborough/15th St & walk 5 blocks, left on Coney Island Ave
Break out your bikini or swim trunks, and join us and our hand-picked crowd of artsy, different, funky (and nearly naked) New Yorkers for the glorious return of Gemini & Scorpio's legendary Russian Baths party...Village Voice Best of 2006 (G&S: "Best (and only) Russian-bathhouse dance party") meets Village Voice Best of 2007 (Slavic Soul Party!: "Best reason Tuesday should be the new Friday"). Whether single or coupled, straight or gay, you can have the steamiest bikini-clad dance party night of your life:
Soak and sweat in the steam baths!
Dance to live gypsy music!
Drink free vodka!
Smoke free hookahs!
Eat yummy pierogies & other delicious ethnic foods!
Get massages and platza treatments!
We will have the newly remodeled & sparkling clean baths to ourselves, with every steam room and sauna ready to please, plus a few hand-picked professionals on hand for the optional platzas and massages. There are three levels and multiple rooms to the space: Russian, Turkish and Swedish steam rooms, jacuzzi and ice pool; the poolside lounge and the dance floor; hookah lounge and energy healing room upstairs; plus the rooftop smoking deck.
Inside, Slavic Soul Party!, NYC's ultimate Balkan party band, will get you sweating faster than the saunas with fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old (playing two sets, at 10pm and 12am). DJ Joro-Boro, collaborator on SSP!'s brand new remix album and former resident DJ of the infamous Mehanata (Bulgarian Bar), keeps the dance floor sizzling with his hot EthnoMesh Megalophonia mix till 2am. There will be an open vodka bar 10-11pm. This is the kind of party you always imagine, but can never quite find in real life...and may be the only one where you'll come out cleaner than when you came in.
