Show your Balboa, play with the music and share the floor.
Select your competitions during registration
Registration
You can compete with a full weekend pass or a party pass.
Competition registrations close on .
Friday prelims
20.30–21.00 — Amateur Mix & Match
21.00–21.30 — Pro Mix & Match
21.30–22.00 — Strictly
Registration limits
Strictly: 24 couples
Amateur Mix & Match: 24 followers or leaders
Pro Mix & Match: 24 followers or leaders
Mix & Match
Balboa Mix & Match Pro
€10
Leaders and followers enter individually. In the prelims, you dance with different partners and to different tempos. Finalists are paired at random and judged as couples.
This is a Balboa/Bal-swing competition. Judges look for technique, musicality and the ability to adapt to and complement a partner while keeping the character of your own dancing.
Open to all levels. You may enter only one Mix & Match division unless you compete in a different role. In the finals, amateur followers dance with pro leaders, and amateur leaders with pro followers.
Leaders and followers enter individually. You dance with different partners and tempos in the prelims; finalists are paired at random and judged as couples.
This is a Balboa/Bal-swing competition. Judges look for technique, musicality and the ability to adapt to and complement a partner while keeping the character of your own dancing.
This division is for dancers who have not reached the finals of a comparable Balboa Mix & Match. The organiser reserves the right to determine eligibility. Please contact the organiser if you are unsure which division to enter.
You may enter only one Mix & Match division unless you compete in a different role. In the finals, amateur followers dance with pro leaders, and amateur leaders with pro followers.
Couples
The Battle of Rome — Strictly
€10
Enter as a couple and dance to songs of different tempos. Judges choose the couples who move on to the final.
This is a Balboa/Bal-swing competition. Partnership, technique, musical improvisation and performance all count. Choreographed elements and airsteps are accepted, but are rewarded only when performed musically and within the dance.
The final uses a spotlight format: one song per couple. Open to all levels.
