Dance Valley ("The Woodstock of Dance") is an annual dance music festival held in the summer in Spaarnwoude, the Netherlands. The first edition was in 1995 when 8.000 people attended (and in 2000 90.000) first time the event lasted 3 days in the weekend with camping available for the concertgoers at the campsite... It rained. A record-breaking 53.000 people attended that year. There were some big changes to the festival in 2006. Traditionally held the first weekend of August, due to colliding with another festival UDC (Dance Valley management company) brought the festival forward two weeks from the 14th to the 16th of July. Whilst this had little effect in terms of sales it did effect the last two hours of the festival when sun light was still visible on the horizon, this in turn effected the use of lighting with the lasers not being switched on till later. Dance Valley also played host to BMX, skate boarding and motorcycle competitions sponsored by LG. The back field HQ resided in was not used, instead a large tent towards the entrance was specially erected for the harder side of dance. The date for 2007 of the event was on July 14. The event no longer was a 3 day event as the UDC returned to their roots and reopened the HQ field much.