Abdu Radi — founder
Abdu went from lonely to having friends from every corner of life — dancers, professors, photographers, strangers who became family over one song. He went from having no place that felt like home to feeling at home in forty countries, speaking two hundred languages without talking. He went from believing dancing was a waste of a serious man's time to making it the closest thing he has to a ritual — the thing that orders his weeks, his travels, and now his work.
The serious-man credentials never went away; they just found their purpose. Two bachelor's degrees, two master's, and a PhD — psychology first, then physics. Years teaching at university. More than eight years as an AI engineer. Years behind a camera as a fashion photographer and designer. Dance Sage is where all of it finally converges: psychology for how people learn movement, physics for measuring it honestly, AI for the technology that sees a dancer's body, a photographer's eye for how it should look — built by a dancer, for himself first.
"People do many things with what life hands them. When they are sad, they cry, or they drink. When they are happy, they laugh — or they drink. When they are angry, they shout, or they fight. I have one answer to all of it. I dance." — Abdu Radi
He started dancing in Vancouver, sweating through shirts and learning the etiquette of the floor the slow way. Far from home in a nightclub where he couldn't speak the local language, Latin music became the bridge — one dance turned fear into connection. That night is the heart of everything Dance Sage does.
The problem that started the app is simple: dancers almost never see themselves. Studios have mirrors; socials don't. You can dance for ten years and never once know whether you are truly on the beat. Dance Sage records your dancing, shows your movement as a skeleton against the actual music, and — with a teacher's shared lesson — lets you dance inside the teacher's ghost and hear what to fix. All of it on your own iPhone, none of it uploaded anywhere.
Abdu also writes the Dance Sage journal — honest, personal essays about leaders, followers, etiquette, and the cities he has danced in. If you want to know what this company believes about dance floors, the journal says it plainly.
What we believe
- Dance comes first. Technology exists to make movement easier to see — never the other way around.
- Private by design. Your recordings stay on your phone. Sharing is always your deliberate choice.
- Teachers matter. The app amplifies teachers; it does not replace them.
- Honesty over hype. We say what the app does today, not what we hope it does someday.
- Built by dancers, for dancers. Every feature starts as something a real dancer needed on a real floor.
Where we're going
Dance Sage launches publicly on the App Store on October 1, 2026. After that: helping dancers find where to dance in any city, teacher and student tools that work across the world, and an AI dance coach grounded in real, validated technique — never invented advice. One step at a time, tested on real dance floors first.
Want to be part of it? We're looking for people — see Careers. Or just say hello: [email protected].