Growing up in Houston, Chinedu Ohalete remembers attending parties with his family on Bissonnet Street on the southwest side of town—the people, the community, the music, and most importantly, the dancing
“I met a lot of people at these halls dancing. Lifelong relationships have been made through dance and music at these events,” he said at the Grooves nightclub in Third Ward.
The notably joyful experiences are something he and his peers wanted to recreate with the Jaiye Room, a pop-up Afro-fusion dance party that launched with…
