Q-dance is a Dutch company that organizes events and festivals that focuses on the harder styles of dance music – mainly hardstyle, hardcore, and hard trance.

Q-Dance has organized multiple events and festivals in the past such as Qapital, The Qontinent, Impaqt, Q-Base, EPIQ, and X-Qlusive.

The logo of Q-dance is inspired by the knobs on DJ mixers, which if turned 120 degrees to the right creates the letter “Q”.

[citation needed] Q-dance was founded in 1999 as Qlass Elite by a group of friends in the northern suburbs of Amsterdam (Landsmeer, the Netherlands).

A year later, in 2001, the name of the company was changed into Q-dance and a new concept was introduced: Qlubtempo.

In 2002 Q-dance moved the Qlimax event to the Thialf stadion in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, and in 2003 to the Gelredome in Arnhem.

Q-dance organized a tour on three big cities in Australia: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Later that year Q-dance organized two editions of X-Qlusive Showtek in Sydney and Melbourne.

Also, other countries were able to experience the events of Q-dance, in the form of small club tours, countries like: Poland, Brazil, Sweden, France, Italy, Great Britain and Northern Ireland experienced Q-dance.

In a few years time, Defqon.1 grew to be one of the most popular hard dance festivals in the Netherlands.

On a former RAF-airbase in Weeze, Germany, thousands of partygoers from all over Europe come together to experience Q-BASE.

In 2015 the company started a cooperation for a stage with Electric Love Festival, Austria and Tomorrowland Brasil Q-dance has hosted a stage at Planet Love, Ireland; Global Gathering, Poland; the Monday Bar Cruise from Sweden to Latvia, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), USA and BigCityBeats World Club Dome (WCD), Germany.