Welcome to the new online home of APPA the Dancing Elephant! Respect and honor to our family & allies that have supported this joyful global movement throughout the years - WE THANK YOU AND LOVE YOU. To our new visitors, welcome, you're home.

We have implemented the feedback of our global community to launch APPA's new planetary hub. Check it out — we've got streamlined interactivity, facebook integration, an EASY multi media gallery, APPA's official blog and our new online store for the hottest APPA gear. We've got your night missions covered with our new skateboards and kicks... check it! >>

APPA's free stickers will continue to be distributed throughout festivals worldwide, however, mailers are no longer possible at this time. In the coming months we will be organizing promoters to distribute stickers per festival. Stay tuned for the latest news regarding how YOU could help spread the activating love of APPA doing what we do best - dancing to lift the planetary vibe!

APPA, Perry & Alex Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, NYC 2009 Well, for starters, there is the obvious. APPA is the most outrageous yellow dancing, paint spewing elephant on the planet.

To date, APPA has trekked from the peaks of Asia to the dankest subways of NYC, swaying hips in Europe and swimming in the universal joy of Down Under.

For the past 5 years, APPA has been on the loose, turning heads, dancing to a global heartbeat.

With such sassy dance moves slapped up all over the world, heads continue to snap — wondering who, what and where did THAT elephant come from? Further, what does APPA represent?

The APPA stargate was dialed and busted opened by a humanist named Perry. Dancing on the playa of the Burning Man festival, Perry was filled with a divine transmission of unity with all beings.  Inspired to express his spiritual awakening within an image all could share, Perry journeyed to India. In the land of Ganesha, APPA was born to dance for the following year’s Burning Man festival. APPA’s bold lines, bouncy moves, activated third eye, and whompin step embodied Perry’s vision to spread joy and a positive paradigm throughout the world.

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