School Dances
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Fusion Sound and Lighting takes pride in having top student rated DJs. Each of our school dance DJs have over 100 school dances under their belt and knows how to get a bunch of kids jumping.
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Brittany Wood – 100/10. I first experienced Fusion Sound and Lighting for my wedding this past summer and let me tell you…the dance floor stayed packed all night! They know what they are doing and how to keep the dance floor alive. I also work at a local high school and after my great experience at my wedding I immediately booked them for our Homecoming dance. They played appropriate music but still kept the kids engaged on the dance floor! I would recommend them for any event!
why a great dj
A GREAT DJ brings excitement among students for the next dance. Which will increase ticket sales, especially if the same DJ is used for the next dance. Continuing this GREAT DJ cycle dance after dance will also allow you to increase ticket prices and overall increase the funding that comes back to the school.
Mrs. Alston – DJ Marcellus is the best!! He kept our crowd rocking. He is very professional and courteous. The app in which the company uses makes things smooth and seamless. If you are having an event book FSL and ask for Marcellus.
why we are
great djs
Loren Hunter – Great to work with! Everyone had a great time and commented on the DJ! Would work with them again in a heartbeat!
Pick Your DJ
- Fully insured!
- Affordable (We want to work with your budeget to make the numbers work.)
- All clean music
- Music students actually want to hear
- Custom made school dance hype video for promotions
- Social media based promoting on Twitter and Instagram
- LED foam sticks
- Custom designed setup that enhances your school dance theme
What a Fusion school dance includes
A school dance is not a wedding with worse acoustics. It is its own job, and the setup reflects that.
- A DJ who also works the mic, because a gym full of students needs someone driving the room, not just a playlist
- Sound sized to the space, which matters more in a gym or cafeteria than almost anywhere else we work
- Dance floor lighting, computer controlled and programmed to the set rather than left on a loop
- Setup finished and tested before doors, so the first students in the door walk into a room that is already going
- Backup gear on site, because there is no second night for homecoming
- One point of contact from the quote through the night itself
Gyms are the hardest rooms we work in. Hard floor, hard walls, a ceiling that sends everything back at you late. We set and tune the system for that room specifically instead of dropping in the same rig we would use in a ballroom, which is the difference between loud and clear.
Clean edits, and a room your administration is comfortable with
Every track we play at a school dance is a clean edit. Not the radio version that still has half the line in it, the clean edit.
Before the dance we take your do-not-play list, and we take it seriously. If a song is off the table for your school, it stays off, even when a hundred students are asking for it. We will also pull a track mid-song if the floor starts doing something the chaperones are not going to like, and we would rather do that than have your administration spend the night watching the DJ instead of the students.
The mic gets used to run the dance, not to shout over it. Calling out a class, running a countdown, getting a circle going, setting up the court announcement. Loud is easy. Directing a room is the skill.
Middle school, homecoming and prom are three different jobs
Middle school dances
Shortest and highest energy. Middle schoolers need constant motion, structured moments and games to keep the floor busy. We plan the set as a series of segments rather than a long build.
Homecoming
Usually in the gym, usually the largest crowd of the year, and often the dance that sets ticket expectations for the rest of the year. This is where lighting and sound quality pay for themselves, because students compare it directly to last year.
Prom
A different room, a different look and a different set. Prom is usually off campus, the room is dressed, and the expectation is that it feels like an event rather than a dance in a gym. Drape, uplighting and a proper lighting design do most of that work.
Making a gym not look like a gym
The single biggest visual upgrade for the money is lighting. A gym under its own overheads looks like a gym; the same room with the house lights down, color on the walls and a lighting rig over the floor looks like a venue.
- Uplighting in your school colors around the perimeter, wireless so there are no cables across the floor
- 360 LED glow tubes over the dance floor for a look students have not seen at every other dance
- Cold spark fountains for the court announcement or the last song, safe to touch at around 62°F, subject to your school and fire marshal approval
- A custom monogram projecting your school logo or the dance theme on a wall or the floor
- Drape and backdrops to hide bleachers, doors and equipment storage
- A photobooth with an attendant, props and digital shares, which is usually the line students queue for all night
- LED video wall or media screens for a slideshow, a hype video or the court reveal
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Working with schools, boosters and districts
We work with activity directors, student government advisors, PTOs and booster clubs, and we are used to how schools actually buy things. Purchase orders, invoices on your terms, a W-9 and a certificate of insurance naming the school or district are all normal requests and none of them slow us down.
Dates matter more here than anywhere else in our calendar. Homecoming and prom weekends are concentrated into a handful of Saturdays every year, and the schools that book first get the DJ they want. If your dance is on one of those dates, get it on our calendar early and we will hold it.
You can also request the same DJ year after year. Students notice, and a familiar DJ who already knows your school builds the momentum that sells the next round of tickets. See our DJs and tell us who you want.
Where we work
We DJ school dances throughout Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Burlington, Kernersville, Asheboro, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Charlotte, and we travel elsewhere in North Carolina and up the East Coast including Virginia and South Carolina for the right date.
Questions we get about school dances
How far in advance should we book a school dance?
As early as you can, because homecoming and prom land on the same few Saturdays for every school in the region. Schools that book in the spring for the following fall almost always get the DJ they asked for. We will still take a late date if we have someone available, but the choice narrows fast.
Do you play clean versions of songs?
Yes, every time, and we mean true clean edits rather than radio versions that still slip a line through. It is not negotiable at a school dance and we do not need to be asked.
Can we give you a do-not-play list?
Yes, and we want one. Send us the songs and artists that are off the table for your school and they stay off, no matter how many requests come in. A must-play list is welcome too, though we will time those rather than playing them in order.
Can we pick our DJ?
Yes. Each of our DJs has a different style and students have opinions. Look at our DJs, tell us who you want, and we will hold that person for your date if they are available. Schools that rebook the same DJ every year tend to see the strongest turnout.
Do you do middle school dances?
Regularly. They run shorter and need more structure, more games and more mic work than a high school dance, and we plan them that way rather than shortening a prom set.
Can you do cold sparks in our gym?
Often yes. Cold spark fountains run at around 62 degrees and are safe to touch, which is why they get approved in rooms where real pyro never would. The final call is your school and your fire marshal, so raise it early and we will give you whatever documentation they want to see.
What do you need from the school on the day?
Access to the room a couple of hours before doors, a standard power circuit near where the DJ will set up, and someone who can let us in and point us at the loading door. That is genuinely it. We bring everything else, including our own tables and cabling.
What does a school dance cost?
It depends on the length of the dance, the size of the room and what lighting you add, so we quote it rather than publishing a package price. Tell us the school, the date, the headcount and whether you want uplighting or effects, and we will send a quote in simple line items with no surprises on the invoice.