Do you ever feel as if dance clubs always have something missing, like good music, great food, and people you know and like? Well, it’s a good thing that these days, technology and your own ingenuity can bring the dancing from the clubs into your own party. Groove to the rhythm of your own music and plan your very own dance party.

Your dance party can have a decades theme. Love the 70s, 80s and 90s? You can build a dance party around these generations. Find yourself wanting to be lost in the heyday of the 40s, 50s, and 60s? Those decades also had very unique dance trends that you can always bring back for a night. So do your research, hire a dance instructor, round up your friends, and get ready to boogie!

Dynamic Invitations

Burning and reproducing music CDs have become so much easier with technology, and they make for great and unique invitations. Burn CDs with the latest dance hits and for the cover, write the party details.

Another unique invitation idea is to print out dance steps on one side of the invitation card. If you’re having a dance party that will involve numerous fixed steps, and not the normal grinding and bopping of modern dance, your guests will find it useful to have a copy of the dance that will take place at the party.

Dance invitation party

Lets get to party!

kiddie dance invitation party

Do you still have cassette players that you don’t know how to get rid of? You can also use them as a canny invitations with the details of the party slipped inside the case. You can also do the same with your old 80s and 90s music paraphernalia, like old song books, posters of the Backstreet Boys and that piano version of “Like a Virgin” that you never got around to learning. You can also use familiar bar sights like pictures of martini glasses, disco balls and DJs as decorations for your dance party invitations.

Blazing Decorations

First of all, you have to decide if the dance party will take place indoors or outdoors. You need a wide area for a dance floor. Unless you have a party area in your home, you can rent a dance hall or for outdoors, a tennis court or an outdoor arena.

For an outdoors dance party, while we all love the night air sometimes, it’s safer if you set up a large tent that will accommodate everyone and cover the entire area of the party. Have a fixed place for everything and be practical. Don’t place the DJ booth right next to the cooking grills. Tables and chairs must be placed at one side of the dance area where they will not be an obstruction.

Disco lights

Disco ball

The lights and music make all the difference in any dance party. If you’re going for a more classic, elegant kind of dance party, the place must be well-lit with chandeliers and yellow lights. If you’re going for a club scene look, flashing lights, disco balls and Christmas lights will be more appropriate. Speaker systems must be big and loud, to get those feet dancing!

Make sure all electronics are plugged in correctly and placed properly to avoid any accidents. Assign one of your trusted friends to keep all the keys of people who are driving cars once they walk in the door. The car keys should not be given back if they are drunk. This may sound a bit extreme, but you should also consider hiring security to make sure that your party doesn’t get crashed by people you don’t know or if a fight breaks out (crazy things can happen in dance parties), there will be someone who will be able to handle it.

Other people you should consider hiring are dance instructors and deejays. Dance instructors are appropriate for the dance parties with waltzes and jigs, and they will also bring out even the shyest wallflower to dance. Deejays will also keep the music interesting and constantly pumping (If you want to become one, learn how to become a DJ). A dance party isn’t complete without a bar, so you also have that option of hiring a bartender.

Distribute funny hats, costumes and glow sticks bracelets and necklaces to your guests once they start coming in. These will have an awesome effect on the dance floor.

Other decorations also depend greatly if you have a more specific dance theme party. Decorations for an 80s dance theme party, for example, will be very different for a 50s dance theme party, but keep in mind the essentials mentioned earlier.

We Love to Boogie: Dance Party Activities

• Freeze Dance. Let everyone in the party dance until the music stops, when which they will freeze in their positions. Anyone who moves is automatically out of the game until only one remains.

Freeze dance


• Dance Off. Ever watched the movie Grease? Having dance offs in lieu of actual fights can now be translated into real life. Group your guests into three to four teams, and tell them that they have ten minutes to plan a group choreography along a song of your choice. The pressure of the time limit and good old competitive spirits will certainly bring out the most interesting dance moves. Have judges to decide on which group deserves to win.
• Dancing in the Spotlight. Make all your guests form a circle around the dance floor. Another guest, who will be blindfolded, will stand in the middle of the floor with a flashlight in his or her hand. The blindfolded guest will then make one spin and point the flashlight randomly at someone in the circle. Whoever the spotlight falls on must dance in the middle of the circle for a minute. After dancing, he or she will then be blindfolded again and will randomly choose the next dancer.
• Girls and Boys’ Musical Chairs. In this naughtier version of musical chairs, the boys get to play the “chairs” and the girls sit on them once the music switches off.

Newspaper dance


• Limbo Rock. A quintessential dance party game, all you need for this game is two people to hold up a long pole. Guests should then try to limbo under it, each time the limbo pole will go an inch lower. The person who gets to limbo under the lowest height, wins.
• Newspaper Dance. Pair up your guests and give them a whole page of a newspaper. Once the music starts, the pair must dance on the floor and off the unfolded newspaper. When the music stops, they must step on the newspaper. When the music starts again, they must fold the newspaper in half and continue the process until the paper becomes smaller and smaller. If the music stops and their feet are not completely on the newspaper, the pair is disqualified. Continue the game until only one pair is left standing on the folded newspaper.

Watch this movie “A paperdance game” for everybody

• Dance Dance Revolution. This classic party will never go out of style, and is a great way to encourage even the most left-footed of your guests to break out into dance.
• Conga Line. A great way to end a dance party is an all-out conga line with all the guests dancing together in one last burst of energy.

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Your dance party is one big activity, so you can always have different things to do, whether it’s dancing the waltz or doing the boogie. Dance instructors come in handy to encourage everyone to dance and show how it’s done.

Food and Drinks

Finger food and pica pica are always best for a dance party, where everyone will be most likely be moving around. For more substantial food, chicken wings, grilled vegetables and freshly-cooked kebabs will be highly popular among your guests.

Your drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, should be free-flowing. If you have a bar and a bartender to man it, it’s also great so that no one will be mixing up drinks and messing things up at the bar. Of course you should also monitor your guests who have taken drinks and will be driving home. Make sure they’ve sobered up properly before giving them back their car keys. As sure as everyone is safe and drinking responsibly, there’s no reason to not enjoy your own dance party bash. Have a great time! If you enjoy learning this article, you’ll surely be interested in reading the Top Ten Dance Crazes.