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Portable Dance Floor + Backpack!

After months of searching for the right manufacturer to work with our growing brand, we finally found the right team to design fantastic backpacks for us! Now, our Jet Setter dance board--our most portable dance floor, coming at 4 pounds in weight and 23 inches in diameter--now comes with its own backpack! These backpacks hold your Jet Setter dance board in the main pocket and have a large front pocket that can hold dancewear, books, snacks, dance shoes, and even a small laptop. (Check out some of our videos on Instagram for examples of us packing this backpack with different items!) What would you carry in your Dance Daze Dance Boards backpack?

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3 Places to Take Photos on Your Dance Daze Dance Board This Spring

If you've been around for a while, you know that Dance Daze Dance Boards Co-founder Saumirah loves a fun, quick, outdoor photo shoot on her portable dance floors. In fact, when she and Jeff first started the business back in 2020, they made sure to spend time having a few photo shoots around town in Sacramento, California, where they make the dance boards. Below are 3 tips for places to take photos if you're planning on bringing out your dance board for a photo shoot this spring. 1. In Front of Cool Garage Doors: Saumirah absolutely loved this red garage on a wide street in Midtown, Sacramento. She'd wanted to take a photo in front of it for a long...

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5 Reasons Why You Might Need A Dance Daze Dance Board

As business owners, we love creating high quality products that solve problems for our clients. At Dance Daze Dance Boards, we work to support the work of recreational and pre-professional dancers. This means that we design our portable dance floors in consideration of what recreational children and adult dancers and pre-professional dancers between the ages of 9 and 18 might need when in terms of practicing, supplemental training, creating influencer content, traveling for different dance opportunities/experiences, and more. If you are a recreational or pre-professional dancer, keep reading to learn about why you might need a Dance Daze Dance Board in your life. You participate in virtual dance classes via Zoom, Instagram, TikTok, and more While some of our clients...

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Spotlighting Our 2021 Best Seller: The Jet Setter Dance Board

Our smallest dance board and our best-selling dance board in 2021 is The Jet Setter. We designed this board because we wanted an extremely portable, affordable dance board that recreational and pre-professional dancers could use to practice their technique at home or on-the-go. Co-founder Saumirah discovered that, though it is only 23 inches in diameter, the Jet Setter is still perfect for practicing tap dance combinations (it really forces you to dance with your feet underneath you!), non-traveling pointe exercises, and even pirouette turns if you’re already a somewhat strong turner (otherwise, you may fall off of the board, so be prepared for that!). Some of our DDDB Brand Ambassadors (search for the hashtag #DDDBambassador across social platforms!) have shown us that they...

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How to Use Dance Daze Dance Boards

While there are so many ways to use Dance Daze Dance Boards, our co-founder Saumirah McWoodson loves using them most for doing outdoor ballet barre classes and for learning tap dance combinations from YouTube! Throughout 2020 and 2021, Saumirah says that using her Dance Daze Dance Boards helped her to establish consistent practice routines, improve her ballet technique, and to develop her own creative practice. While Saumirah is most experienced in classical ballet and tap--as those are the styles of dance she began studying as a child and continued practicing and training in through her adult years--those who practice other styles of dance love using Dance Daze Dance Boards as well. Dance Daze Dance Boards can be used for practicing balancing,...

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