The Global Dance Festival is a techno and trance festival held in locations around the world, but most often at the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver, Colorado. The tour of the festival visits such far-flung destinations as Athens Greece. Global Dance Festival 2023 promises the same revelry, pumping music, and world-class events.

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Global Dance Festival Music

Global Dance Festival features the most types of EDM, or electronic dance music, among any of the festivals in North America. Trance, ambient, drum and bass, house, dub, techno, breakbeat, and trip hop are some of the styles featured at the festival. Popular performing artists include Tiesto, Pendulum, Kaskade, Deadmau5, Infected Mushroom, and Steve Aoki.

The music is generally broken down into genres and sub-genres by the music's beats per minute, or BPMs, which help to determine where the music fits. Other aspects that help categorize different kinds of dance music include the use of instruments (synthetic or live), drum beat patterns, and use of vocals. Global Dance Fest is a great show to attend to sample the many styles of dance music and hear newly emerging artists, and listen to the newest, experimental music styles.

Global Dance Festival History

Global Dance Festival tickets sell each year to crowds numbering more than 10,000. The festival has had success for nine strong years, attracting dance music fans from all around the world.The biggest and most popular dates happen at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, with three consecutive days of full-on dance music and tens of thousands of people. It is this original show that has made the event into a genuine festival. Each year, Global Dance Festival tickets are sold for a three-day event at Red Rocks, and one-day dates in select locations in the United States and around the world , announced early in each year. The festival has toured in Athens, Greece, Missouri, Colorado, and debut in Hawaii in 2009 in Kapolei.

Global Dance Festival Facts

Sometimes called ravers, dance junkies that hit the circuit at Global Dance Festival are hardcore dancers who love to party and dance all night long. Costumes are a big part of Global Dance Fest 2023 and every year's festival, some very unique and others simply racy and barely there. There are people dressed as cartoon characters, wearing fur-trimmed everything, body paints, clown attire, incredible wigs, and superhero get-ups. And there are many who wear next to nothing at all. Similarly, the same type of music and sub-culture exists at the annual Nocturnal Festival in both Texas and California.

The preparation that goes into setting up Global Dance Fest in its entirety is pretty amazing. The work done on the stage itself takes days to complete with hundreds of people contributing efforts to get the sound prepped and perfected, set up and test all the lasers and lights, and heave up the massive LED screen that sits in front of the stage. Together, all these elements come together to create an unforgettable live show with some of the best DJs in the world, like Benny Benassi, the famous Italian DJ, and Sasha and John Digweed.

Tickets To Global Dance Festival

Global Dance Festival tickets generally go on sale earlier in the year for the summer shows. The lineups are announced and shortly after the tickets are snagged up. There are both general admission tickets as well as VIP tickets that provide backstage access, entry to several VIP areas, and more.