ABOUT FERAL DANCE

Feral Dance is a celebration of the Bass in EDM. Come hear the Bass that moves your body celebrated on stage with our DJs. The Feral Dance crew will lead the way with Go-Go Performances and we will have Genres from Breaks to Dubstep in a sampling of the best Bass Music Minneapolis has to offer.

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AJ Schmalenberger Feral Dance Owner

meet THE OWNER

AJ Schmalenberger is an Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator and trained in various Agile methodologies. He is an accomplished solutions architect, Experience Specialist and Learning Specialist, bringing domain expertise in Atlassian products, business process re-engineering, solutions consulting aligned with business objectives, and technical leadership to his clients. He is our go-to lead on Atlassian tool usage, standard methodologies and implementation, coaching and mentoring the project delivery team to ensure consistent performance and customer success. AJ leads technical design sessions and facilitates clear conversations with business and technical teams to drive project scope, expectations, and delivery. He translates business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Atlassian tools and provides overall thought leadership and best practice solutions to elevate implementation and organizational adoption.

He was the co-leader of the San Francisco Bay Area Atlassian user group and is skilled in gathering and implementing user requirements, developing training and administering Atlassian and Slack tools, from both the client and consultant sides of the table. AJ’s career spans solutions architecture, training and enablement, support engineer, web development, systems administration, project management at several notable companies prior to Cprime, including Atlassian, Fastly, Appco, Atlas Authority, MediaBeacon, KAT Communications, Grizella and TEKsystems.


OUR STORY

Feral Dance started as a brain child of AJ Schmalenberger after moving back to Minnesota from California. AJ missed the music scene that permeated the bay area and gave artists the chance to be more expressive and built a community around their mutual love of music dance and expression. There are many amazing groups of people that are doing lots of cool stuff in the Minnesota area but none felt quite right. After meeting DJ Evilynda in a poker chat room and DJ Theology at a hentai convention and Go-go lead Chia at a seedy Wisconsin bar, AJ started formulating a plan with them. What if we created the kind of music scene that we wanted with amazing musical acts that were allowed to play what they wanted to play and have amazing go-go dancers to back them up and get the crowd dancing hard. And thus Feral Dance was born. The name is supposed to connotate the wild and free dancing that AJ wanted to elicit but then it kind of became a cat thing.

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