Furry dance

Furry rave at Anthrocon 2009.

Alflor at the Anthrocon 2014 fursuit dance competition

A Furry dance may refer to either an organized events held at a furry convention (sometimes known as furry raves) for furry and non-furry attendees to dance to music, some times in fursuit, and furry dance competitions, in which contestants perform dances before a judge or judges.

Such events are almost always held during the evening hours, often accompanied with laser lights, strobe lights, and/or artificial fog to enhance the effect of the dance.

Furry dance competitions

A furry dance competition is a popular, widespread activity at certain cons in which furry competitors, with or without fursuits, perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles before a common group of judges, sometimes for awards.

Fursuit dance competition

In this type of furry dance event, furries solely in fursuits (fursuiters) perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles—such as acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and modern, also in front of a common group of judges.

Typically performers will get between one and a half to two minutes to "show off" their dance skills to win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place. Fursuit dance competitions can either be performed solo or in groups.

The very first fursuit dance competition was held at Furry Weekend Atlanta 2008. Since then, hundreds of dance competitions all across the world have been held at conventions.

Music

The music played at this events typically consists of fast-paced electronic music, played by selected furry and non-furry DJs with genres ranging to House, Trance, Techno, Jungle, and remixes.

See also

• Dance on Wikipedia
• Dance competion on Wikipedia
• Rave on Wikipedia