5 formats · from NZ$5,800 per event
Dancefloor.
Nights built around sound and colour. The room is lit as one object, the music is programmed in blocks, and the decoration tells your guests within ten seconds what kind of evening this is.
20+ · programmes on site · adult guests only · no stakes · no cash prizes
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Disco Floor
The straightforward one: a disco evening that works for a mixed group. Mirror ball, warm colour, a music programme in decade blocks, and a dressing rail so people who want to commit to the theme can.
What is in the package
- a 50 cm mirror ball with two pin spots, 12 colour wash points, 2 effect units
- a DJ for 5 hours with a decade-by-decade programme, 2 x 1000 W sound, 2 speakers on stands
- a dressing rail with 50 items: jackets, glasses, wigs, scarves
- scenography: a 3 x 2.4 m backdrop, 6 record-style panels, 20 m of trim
- a photo point with a 2.4 m frame and 12 props
- a host who opens the floor and runs one short dance block
What the venue needs to have
- a hall of at least 140 m2 with a clear dance area of 40 m2
- a fixing point or free-standing truss for the mirror ball
- two 16 A circuits
- a noise curfew confirmed in writing by the venue
Adaptable without changing the price: The decade balance in the programme, the number of dressing items, the colour scheme, whether the dance block runs.
Cyberpunk Grid
A near-future evening with a hard-edged look. The room is built out of light: an LED grid over the floor, a VJ screen behind the DJ and four tech points where guests do something with their hands rather than watch.
What is in the package
- an LED grid of 24 points over the dance area plus 6 ground-level bars
- a VJ screen 4 x 2.4 m with a visual programme matched to the music
- a DJ for 5 hours and a lighting operator at the desk, 2 x 1000 W sound
- four tech points: a synth desk, a neon-tube drawing wall 3 m long, a camera-effect mirror, a wearable-light bar with 60 pieces
- scenography: 8 industrial panels, 40 m of cable-look trim, 4 printed warning boards
- a photo point 2.4 x 2.4 m with reflective backdrop and 14 props
- haze machine and a host-compere for the opening and closing block
What the venue needs to have
- a hall of at least 160 m2 with a clear dance area of 50 m2
- three 16 A circuits for light, sound and screen
- a haze policy agreed in writing, including any detector isolation
- the ability to bring the house lighting down to 10 per cent
Adaptable without changing the price: The visual programme, which tech points run, the intensity of the lighting, the amount of haze or none at all.
White Party
One rule for the guests, white, and one rule for us: everything in the room is white until the lighting says otherwise. It is the simplest format in the catalogue to brief your people on and the easiest to photograph.
What is in the package
- white scenography: 6 drapes 4 m high, 20 white table pieces, a 3 x 2.4 m white backdrop
- 14 LED points with one agreed accent colour and a white wash
- a DJ for 5 hours, 2 x 1000 W sound, a house and classics programme
- a white props box at the door for guests who missed the dress code: 40 pieces
- a photo point 2.4 x 2.4 m with a white frame and 10 props
- a host who opens the evening and closes it
What the venue needs to have
- a hall of at least 130 m2, light-coloured walls preferred
- two 16 A circuits
- a cloakroom, because a white dress code means coats
- clean floors, or permission to lay a covering
Adaptable without changing the price: The accent colour, the number of drapes, the music programme, how strictly the dress code is enforced at the door.
Retro Hall
A local retro evening rather than an imported one: the New Zealand seventies, eighties and nineties. Wood veneer, cassette artwork, a mixtape programme, and three table games that were in every rec room of the period.
What is in the package
- scenography: 8 wood-veneer panels, 60 cassette-style covers, 4 printed period posters, 2 standard lamps
- three period table games on 1.8 m tables with a crew member looking after them
- a mixtape music programme across three decades, DJ for 5 hours, 2 x 1000 W sound
- a dressing rail with 45 op-shop style items
- 10 warm LED points and 2 soft colour washes
- a photo point with a period lounge set: sofa, lamp, 10 props
What the venue needs to have
- a hall of at least 140 m2
- two 16 A circuits
- floor space of 12 m2 for the lounge photo set
- permission to use free-standing panels against the walls
Adaptable without changing the price: Which decade leads the programme, which table games run, the number of dressing items, the poster set.
Neon Signal
A dark room and reactive colour. Everything in the scenography responds to UV light, guests get a glow kit at the door, and a body-paint point puts a line or a pattern on anyone who wants one.
What is in the package
- 14 UV fixtures and 10 colour wash points over a 50 m2 floor
- UV-reactive scenography: a 4 x 2.4 m backdrop, 12 hanging shapes, 30 m of reactive trim
- a body-paint point with two artists for 3 hours and skin-safe paint
- 100 glow kits handed out at the door: bands, sticks, clip pieces
- a DJ for 5 hours with an electronic programme, 2 x 1000 W sound
- a photo point with a reactive backdrop and 12 props
What the venue needs to have
- a hall of at least 140 m2 that can be brought down to near darkness
- two 16 A circuits
- a washroom near the paint point with warm water
- floors that tolerate water-based paint, or permission to lay our own covering
Adaptable without changing the price: The amount of reactive scenography, whether the paint point runs, the music style, the colour scheme.
How these evenings run
The shape of a Dancefloor programme.
A host runs the structure and the crew runs the activities. Whichever format you choose from this category, the four stages below are the same.
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The first hour runs at conversation volume while guests arrive and find the bar and the photo point.
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The host opens the floor with one short announcement, then the music moves into its main block.
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A short interval mid-evening for speeches, a group photograph or a cake.
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The closing block drops the tempo and the lighting, so the end of the night is a decision, not a surprise.
Venue
What a venue needs for this category.
Individual formats add their own requirements, listed with each one above. These four apply across Dancefloor.
- a hall of at least 140 m2 with a clear dance area of 40 m2
- two 16 A circuits for sound and lighting, one 10 A for the photo point
- a smoke or haze policy agreed with the venue in writing
- step-free access for flight cases, or a goods lift at least 1.2 x 1.6 m
Set-up takes up to 3 hours before the event, pack-down 1-2 hours after. Neither counts towards the programme hours.
Who these programmes are for
Adult guests, on site, nothing to win.
Every programme in this category is written and run for adult guests, in a venue you choose. Scoring exists in some formats; the prize is a printed certificate and the host reading out the result. There are no stakes, no cash prizes and nothing exchangeable for money, goods or vouchers. Where a programme includes casino-style tables, participation in those activities is for guests aged 20+ and the chips are props that are never sold or topped up.
Questions
Questions about Dancefloor.
How loud is it?
Conversation volume for the first hour, then the main block at a level agreed with your venue. We ask for the venue noise curfew in writing and programme the closing block to come down in stages rather than stop dead.
Can we give the DJ a list?
Yes. We ask for a short list of what you want and, more usefully, what you do not want. The programme is wired in blocks in advance and the DJ adjusts inside those blocks on the night.
Do you need haze or smoke?
Only where it is allowed. Haze makes the lighting read better but it needs a written policy from the venue and sometimes detector isolation. Every Dancefloor format also works without it.
Ask about a date in Dancefloor.
An enquiry does not reserve a date. We check whether we are free, agree the package and send it to you in writing.