Lend your support to the beautiful sprung wood floor that supports us all!
Help us meet our goal of raising 1/4 of the cost of Flurry’s flooring this year by becoming a Tile Sponsor...
$40,000
total cost of
this year’s floor
$10,000
flooring goal for
the 2027 festival
Aug 18 – Oct 15
campaign window
for fall 2026
With approximately 800 floor tiles used across five different floors, each tile costs Flurry about $50. Your donation will sponsor one or more tiles for this year’s floor, and you can contribute as an individual, anonymously, or pool your donation with others from your community for group recognition. Tile Sponsors will be acknowledged in our program book and on festival signage, as well as on our website!
One of my favorite keepsakes each year is the time lapse that we take of the floor installation in Rosenberg Hall:
First, 5’x5’ squares are wheeled in and staged; then, the first rows of cardboard are laid down, followed by hundreds of squares of laminated wood. A flurry of activity follows as volunteers swarm in to screw down the pieces, following those before them. The activity crescendos, then dies down, until just a few people remain to pin down the beveled border pieces and tape down the edges, so that dancers don’t trip on their way on and off the floor.
It’s a beautiful dance before the dance, all in about 4 hours on Friday morning, right before the dancers arrive. And on Sunday, we take it all down, sometimes from literally under dancers’ feet after the Farewell Contra, to ensure we’re out of the venue before security closes down the conference rooms for the night.
Sara Guan, Flooring Crew Chief
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Why fundraise for the Flurry floor?
Flooring prices have increased dramatically in recent years as we’ve added more coverage in several spaces and introduced flooring to A/B/C in 2026. Additional truckloads and higher fuel prices, combined with fair pay for the installation crew and 2026’s outstanding on-site maintenance and smoothly run operation, have led to an increase of around 65% in flooring costs between 2024 and 2027, meaning that the flooring now represents over 1/4 of festival expenses related to infrastructure.
Learn more about the history of the Flurry floor here.
My first Flurry happened to be the last one where we contra danced directly on the tiled concrete. The event was magical, but my feet and knees hurt for several days after I got back home. At the time, I told myself it wasn’t worth the downside and while I had danced on portable floors elsewhere, I thought that the main dance space is waaaay too big for that.
Well, imagine my surprise when I learned they had contracted with a wood flooring company for the following year, and it would be installed by volunteer labor. I immediately knew that I wanted to not only attend but would help with the installation. The design of the panels is both ingenious and simple, and the whole process takes just a couple of hours with enough people.
Flooring crew (and the Flurry itself of course) is now one of the things I look forward to doing each year when feasible, and I count Billy from the company as a friend. I consider the wood flooring as absolutely key to the success and stellar reputation of the Flurry, and I would really hate to ever see it go back to the way it was. In fact, I most likely would not go.
Brian Hamshar, Longtime Flooring Crew Volunteer
20,000 sq ft
approximate amount
of flooring used
5 truckloads
needed to deliver
the floor tiles
160 volunteer hours
to install and remove
the flooring
~800 tiles
installed across
five Flurry spaces
Thank you to the following people for their support with this fundraiser:
Ian Hamelin
Sara Guan
Brian Hamshar
J Hoggan
Sasha Ray
Alyssa Schoeller
Ron Schelhaas
The Flurry Managers and Planning Committee
The DanceFlurry Organization’s Board
Our loyal and committed Flurry supporters!
