Carsten
Helmich, booker and DJ of Juicy Beats and Club Trinidat (Germany)
set some milestones with unique concepts like ‘Trinidat
On Ice’ and the sold out shows of the Juicy Beats-Festival
(more than 20.000 visitors): Niels de Geus, Managing Director
of Dance Valley in the Netherlands, a 40.000 capacity dance
event with 150 participating acts,: Chris Yuen from Cool World
in the US , responsible for events like Cyberfest and the Ultramusicfestival:
Alev Caglar, one of the founders of Hip Productions in Turkey
, one of the producers of a version of Creamfield on the Bospherus.
These four international players will share their experience
and observations on what it takes to set up a proper dance
event. In comparison to rock events, which ‘only’
take some expensive and established acts, one or more stages,
reasonable promotion and logistics, the set up of dance event
involves some further and very different considerations.
For those who are not able to attend ADE/LDMC this year,
Vip News will report on the results of the conferences but
nevertheless, Vip News recommends personal attendance by our
readers from the Dance music industry.
ADE
reports a last-minute boost in the numbers of new registrations.
Currently the figures stand at more than a 1000 participants
and the organisers expect a final total of around 1200 registrations
for the Amsterdam Dance Event. According to a convention spokesman
the surge of late registrations has come particularly from
France, Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal) and the US.
With the agenda and programs now set, key note speakers confirmed
and time schedules figured out, it appears that this business
event is ready to do business.