With people and camp activities spread out, we need a way to communicate. We use a WhatsApp community with chat groups.

To join the community, follow the instructions on the registration form when you register. Once you’ve been added, please navigate to PM Dances Community to ensure that WhatsApp is correctly installed on your phone and that you were successfully approved as a member of the community during the registration process.

Chat groups

For 2025, we’ve created the PM Dances Community WhatsApp community with these initial chat groups:

  • Announcements is for daily camp announcements by staff only (no participant posting). This group is the main way we disseminate information during camp. All registrants are added to this group as part of camp registration.

  • Dancer Chat (messaging currently disabled - we’ll let you know when you can start posting) is an unmoderated group for conversations about and at camp. All camp registrants can join the group. All participants can post. Not everyone will want to be in this group if it gets too verbose, so please reply privately with thank you, I agree, etc messages and conversations that don’t involve the whole group.

  • Admin Team Only, as the name indicates, is a group for the admin team to communicate about behind-the-scenes stuff. There’s no need for any camp registrants to join this group.

Other specialty groups might be added based on need. For example, Post Camp will be added at the end of camp for people staying in Puerto Morelos longer (to use for logistics like Who’s in for dinner tonight at El Pesquero’s?).

How to navigate WhatsApp for camp

All groups related to this year’s camp are part of the PM Dances Community WhatsApp community. To access or join any of the groups:

  1. Navigate to the PM Dances Community. To do so:
    • From your phone, in your Chats list, locate and tap PM Dances Community.
    • From your computer, click the Communities icon, then click PM Dances Community.
  2. A list appears showing the groups you’re in and the groups you can join.
    • To access, tap or click any group you’re in.
    • To join, tap or click any group you can join to request access.

How to exit a group

All groups related to this year’s camp are part of the PM Dances Community WhatsApp community. To exit any of the groups:

  1. Navigate to the PM Dances Community. To do so:
    • From your phone, in your Chats list, locate and tap PM Dances Community.
    • From your computer, click the Communities icon, then click PM Dances Community.
  2. A list appears showing the groups you’re in.
    • Tap or click the group you want to exit.
  3. Exit the group.
    • From your phone, tap the group title banner at the top of the screen, then scroll down and select Exit group.
    • From your computer, click the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen, then select Exit group.

How to reply privately

In our WhatsApp groups, when what you have to say doesn’t pertain to the whole group, reply privately to keep spamming to a minimum. For example, asking a follow-up question or commenting in a way that’s personal to the two of you. This practice helps to keep the interest level up for everyone. Thanks!

To reply privately from an iPhone:

  1. Press and hold your finger on a message until the menu pops up.
  2. Tap More…
  3. Tap Reply Privately.

This video demonstrates the steps.

To reply privately from an Android phone:

  1. Press and hold your finger on a message until the message highlights.
  2. At the top right of the screen, tap the three dots (…),
  3. Tap Reply privately.

This video demonstrates the steps.

How to install WhatsApp

On your phone

Installing WhatsApp on your phone is just like installing any other app. Simply search for it in either the App Store app on your iPhone or the Google Play Store on your Android phone.

On your computer

You can simultaneously use WhatsApp on your computer and phone. We highly recommend against downloading the computer version of the app to your computer because it’s buggy. Instead, use WhatsApp Web.

The easiest way to get started is:

  1. Attempt to access our WhatsApp community for camp.
  2. Click Join Chat.
  3. You’ll be presented a page that says the app is not installed. Instead of clicking Download, click use WhatsApp Web farther down the page.
  4. Follow the prompts to complete setup and request access to the chat.

Only dancers registered for camp can be approved.