Top 10 Questions About Portable Dance Floors

1. How Do You Build a DIY Dance Floor on Grass? Creating an outdoor portable dance floor that’s safe and sturdy over grass requires a material that can stand up to moisture, sunlight, and uneven spaces. Modular dance floor tiles are an especially good choice for this use case.
2. What Are the Best Ideas for Temporary Dance Floors Over Carpet? Creating a space for dance practice or for a party with dancing at the house often means needing to go over the top of a carpeted space. Some types of dance floors are perfect to go directly over the carpeting, while others may need you to install a sturdy subfloor over the carpet first.
3. What Are Some Ideas for Installing a Portable Dance Floor Over Concrete? When practicing dance in a space with a concrete subfloor, the long hours needed for practice can increase the possibility of repetitive stress injuries. We often recommend making use of a foam subfloor that sits between the concrete and the portable dance floor to create a higher level of cushioning.
4. What Are the 5 Best Portable Dance Floor Options? When creating a space to hold an event with dancing or to practice dance at home, making use of interlocking tiles ensures portability. However, when you need a specialty dance floor, lightweight rolls and sprung dance floor panels are also available.
5. What Are Some Tips for Purchasing Portable Dance Floor Kits? Many of the most popular dance floor kits we offer at Greatmats contain all the parts required to cover a space of a certain size. Kits with a coverage size of about 3x3 feet are perfect for one person, while you’ll need far larger kits to handle events like wedding receptions or anniversary parties.
6. What Is the Difference Between Permanent and Portable Dance Flooring? Portable dance floor options are ideal for spaces where you will need to assemble and disassemble the floor regularly to allow for other activities. A permanent floor for dance is better for a space that will be used for dance practices and events on a regular and consistent basis.
7. What Kinds of Portable Dance Floors Are Available? Dance floor options that feature portable designs are available for use indoors or outdoors, for practices or performances, and for specific types of dance. Greatmats offers many types of dance floors to meet whatever use case you have planned for the product.
8. How Much Do Dance Floor Tiles Cost? In areas where you need a subfloor to go underneath the portable dance floors, expect to pay anywhere from $1 to $5 per square foot of coverage, although more expensive options are available. Modular dance floors that consist of interlocking tiles typically cost anywhere from $4 to $7 per square foot, but more expensive options are available.
9. What Are the Top 5 Budget Dance Floors for Home? Greatmats offers inexpensive pre-sized dance floor kits, as well as interlocking tiles for creating a dance floor of any size at home. Kits are sized to accommodate one person during practice or to cover a typical sized room in the home. Modular tiles lock together using jigsaw-puzzle-style edges that simplify assembly and disassembly.
10. How Do I Use EZ Portable Dance Floor Tiles? The EZ Portable Dance Floor Tile product from Greatmats is easy to assemble, as it uses hidden interlocking edges that ensure you can cover any size quickly with the dance floor. For faster assembly, some people will leave nine of the 1x1 foot tiles connected when placing them in storage, as the larger panels remain easy to handle, thanks to the lightweight design.

Best Portable Dance Floor Products

Tap Dance Floor Kit

Creating a space that’s perfect for practicing tap dancing at home is easier when using the Tap Dance Floor Kit from Greatmats. Our kit consists of nine tiles, covering 3x3 feet. The durable vinyl surface yields a perfect space for delivering the sound feedback you want during tap practice.

EZ Portable Dance Floor Tile

One of our most popular portable dance floor products is the EZ Portable Dance Floor Tile. Each modular tile has a lightweight design that measures 1x1 feet in size, while using a hidden interlocking system that greatly simplifies the installation process. 

Court Floor Flat Top Tile

The firm plastic Court Floor Flat Top Tiles from Greatmats are ideal for assembling as a subfloor over which you can place a portable dance floor. These tiles snap together with a hidden interlocking system. The plastic is water resistant, so it works nicely for creating a dance subfloor outdoors over grass.

Reversible Marley Dance Floor

Although most rolls of marley flooring are extremely large, Greatmats does offer the Reversible Marley Dance Floor roll. This roll measures 5.25x10 feet, covering a smaller space at home for ballet or soft shoe dance practice, while being light enough to move whenever needed.

Rosco Adagio Touring Portable Dance Floor Roll

For touring dance companies that need to be able to move a full roll of marley, our Rosco Adagio Touring Portable Dance Floor Roll is a better option than a traditional roll of marley. This portable marley roll measures only 1.5 mm in thickness, which reduces the weight versus a typical roll of marley, which often measures about 3 mm in thickness.

Portable Dance Floor Customer Installations

Christine’s Dance Company

When seeking a dance floor it could use for recitals away from the dance studio, Christine’s Dance Company was looking for a lightweight product. After quite a bit of research, the owner decided the portable roll of marley from Greatmats offered the ideal mixture of durability, value, and portability.

Recitals: Rosco Adagio Touring Portable Roll

NorthEast Dance Center

The NorthEast Dance Center needed a cushioned dance subfloor it could install for practices, while also being available to move to new locations for performances. Our Elite dance subfloor kit consists of plyometric rubber as the base material for cushioning and a series of interlocking plastic tiles to go over the rubber for stability. You then add your own dance floor material over the top.

Subflooring: Elite Dance Studio Subfloor

Brooke and Megan Tedesco Testimonial

To create a comfortable and safe space for dance practice at home, Brooke and Megan Tedesco chose our easy-to-install interlocking tiles. These tiles can go directly over carpet, providing an ideal level of stability, while also being easy to disassemble whenever needed.

At Home Over Carpet: EZ Portable Dance Floor Tiles

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