Baby Loves Disco gets into its groove in Tokyo

TOKYO —

When the Village People call out “Young man,” at a Baby Loves Disco event, it’s hard to tell whether they’re calling out to a 3-year-old toddler or his 30-year-old father. Baby Loves Disco is a modern event that allows parents and children to dance the afternoon away together.

On one recent Sunday, over 250 parents and children gathered to get their groove on at Fifty Seven in Roppongi. The music kept everyone moving as parents joined their kids on the dance floor to do the Hustle, the YMCA and every other dance that played.

Among the people dancing and shaking were Marina and Nana Kinno, the host mommy and host aunty for Baby Loves Disco-Japan. Baby Loves Disco was started in Philadelphia by Heather Murphy Monteith in 2004 and in four years it has become an international dance party hosted in over 30 cities worldwide. The Kinno sisters were inspired by the idea and wanted to help bring the funky groove of Baby Loves Disco to Japan.