Q-dance

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Q-Dance Stage at Airbeat One Festival 2016

Q-Dance is a music organizer, record label and online radio operator from the Netherlands with a focus on hardcore techno , hardstyle and hard trance . The most important events organized by Q-Dance include Defqon.1 , Q-Base , Qlimax , Dominator , The Qontinent and X-Qlusive .

history

The company, founded in 1999, initially limited itself to event organization . Today Q-Dance works as an organizer and also as a record label and has various DJs under contract, including DJ Astrid , Technoboy , Zany and various others.

Q-Dance operates internationally and has been part of the market-leading Dutch music label ID&T since the end of 2006 , whose founder Duncan Stutterheim transferred management to Q-Dance founder Wouter Tavecchio after his retirement. The two organizers and record labels dominate the Dutch hardstyle music market with over 25 dance festivals with a total of more than 500,000 visitors annually.

Q-Dance is currently very active in Australia and organized “X-Qlusive Showtek” there in December 2008 and “X-Qlusive Technoboy” in December 2009. Defqon.1 also took place on September 19, 2009 and September 18, 2010 for the first time as "Defqon1- Australia" in Sydney .

By raising the tax on events in the Netherlands in 2011, Q-Dance decided to cancel two of its successful events called In Qontrol and Houseqlassics and to host two new, more profitable events in the Heineken Music Hall and the ZiggoDome in Amsterdam. On October 1, 2011, QORE 3.0 premiered in the Heineken Music Hall. On December 31, 2012, the first Freaqshow was held in the Ziggodome , replacing the Q-Dance New Year's Eve event “Qountdown” from previous years. In 2017 Freaqshow ended after five years on December 31st and was replaced by WOW WOW the following year. In 2018, the Q-BASE festival at Niederrhein Airport was also held for the last time.

In earlier times Q-Dance also organized other events such as Hardcore Resurreqtion , Qountdown , Qlubtempo , Qontact , Teqnology , Q-Beach , Qrimetime and Promo . Since then, individual stages of the organizer have also been represented at many major festivals.

Q-dance events

since Surname Current venue Visitors
2000 Qlimax GelreDome Arnhem > 29,000
2003 X-Qlusive Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam 5,500
Defqon.1 Biddinghuizen 85,000
2004 Q-dance presents Ziggo Dome Amsterdam 12,000
2005 Dominator E3 Eersel beach 50,000
2008 The Qontinent (with bass events) Wachtebeke 30,000
2009 Defqon.1 Australia Sydney International Regatta Center 25,000
2012 The Sound of Q-dance N / A
2013 Capital Ziggo Dome Amsterdam 12,000
Dominator (Indoor Edition) Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam N / A
2014 Hemqade North Sea Venue Zaandam N / A
2015 Defqon.1 Chile Santiago de Chile N / A
2016 Mysteryland NL Haarlemmermeer > 60000
2019 IMPAQT Niederrhein Airport
2019 EPIQ Ziggo Dome Amsterdam
2020 Defqon.1 @ Home Walibi Holland

Former events

from ... to Surname Former venue
1999-2010 Houseqlassics
2000-2001 '91 -'92 Hemkade 48 Zaandam
2000-2003 Hardcore resurrection
2001-2004 Qontact Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam / Beursgebouw Eindhoven
2001-2007 Qlubtempo Hemkade 48 Zaandam / Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
2002 Club Q-BASE Hemkade 48 Zaandam
2002-2006 Teqnology Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
2004-2007 QrimeTime Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
2004-2010 In Qontrol Amsterdam RAI
2010 De Q-dance Feestfabriek Amsterdam ArenA
2008-2011 Qountdown Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
2011–2012 QORE 3.0 Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
2013-2013 IQON Sydney International Dragway
2012-2017 Freak show Ziggo Dome Amsterdam
2004-2018 Q-BASE Niederrhein Airport
2018 WOW WOW Ziggo Dome Amsterdam
2019 EPIC Ziggo Dome Amsterdam
2020 DEDIQATED GelreDome Arnhem
2020 Defqon.1 @ Home Walibi Holland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ANBerlin, December 9, 2006 ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anb030.de
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  3. European Center for the Experience Economy, November 2006 ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 261 kB) Study “Human Experience and Ubiquitous Art”, pages 9-10. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / downloads.experience-economy.com
  4. ^ Q-Dance Australia website
  5. X-Qlusive Showtek website