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Loose Legs, Loud Voices: Helena Lauwaert’s Blueprint


It starts with a bassline and a body. A small, intimate venue in Ghent pulses with warm lights and deep grooves, a crowd locked into a breakbeat edit that rolls like thunder across the dance floor. Behind the decks, Helena Lauwaert raises her hand and smiles, not because the drop is coming, but because the room feels exactly right. This isn’t just a party. This is Loose Legs, a night built on belonging, sweat, and sound.


In a club scene where diversity often ends at the flyer, Belgian DJ and producer Helena Lauwaert is pushing for something real, something grounded, euphoric, and unapologetically queer.


Loose Legs, her new event series, is more than a party; it’s a manifesto disguised as a dancefloor.


Rooted in UK garage, speed house, hard house, and speed garage, Loose Legs is Helena’s answer to a nightlife that often leaves both her sound and her identity out of the spotlight.


“I’ve been to so many queer nights where the intention is there, but the music doesn’t hit, it


leans too experimental, too underground, Loose Legs came from a need to merge both sides of myself: the DJ who wants to dance to UKG all night, and the queer woman who wants to feel seen in the crowd.”


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AUTHOR: SERGIO NIÑO PHOTOGRAPHY: EDWARD OPDEBEECK (@edward.odb)


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