How to Plan and Decorate a Themed Dance

Choosing a Theme for your dance is the first step to planning a successful School Dance, Homecoming, Winter Formal, Prom, r any dance for that matter. Your exciting dance theme should be creative, original, and make sense. People should know what the dance is about by the name of the theme. The best way to drive up attendance is by good promotion. Pass out flyers, Hang Banners, Make Announcemens, and anything else you cn think of to get the word out. All too often students don't know if the DJ at the dance will be good and fun to dance to or not. So Another great way to drive pre-sale tickets for the dance is by having the DJ you are planning on having spin at the dance to come out and promote the dance himself during lunch. This works best when the student body can see and hear for themselves beforehand what the DJ will be like. They will actually get to "test-drive" if you will the DJ beforehand and know that he has what is takes to play music they like to dance to in a fun ann exciting way. One brief example, last year a school I was going to dj had a history of turning out lower attendance (375-550.) They told me they hoped for 500 this year. I came twice each week before the dance to spin music and promote ticket sales and they were surprised with over 900 in attendance.Alright, once a theme is decided brainstorm different ways to compliment the theme and bring extraordinary excitement to the dance. Whether your dance is on or off campus try to imagine thing that haven't been done before. Think of exciting shows and movies and what made themso good. Ask the DJ is if he can provide the same or similar effects. We have been listening to ASB and high schools' ideas for many years and have come up with many unique things such as indoor and outdoor snow machines, Personal Disco floors that light up and flash to the beat, Hiding an entire gym's walls with drape, CO2 freeze cannons to cool off hot dancefloors, moving stages, video screens, lighting up an entire room in different flashing colors, and much more. Whatever Theme you come up with you can be sure that Swell DJ Productions is here to bring your Dance to Life!