Grab your favorite social dance buddies and bring them to Århus this summer. 🤩

Brought to you by Gadir Al-Saadi in collaboration with Bachata Aarhus! 😍

During the Nordic Summer Dance Festival Aug 7-9 2024 we will host an Open Bachata Social Competition! 💃🏻🕺🏻

🏆 We have prices for a value of more than 16000 DKK 🏆
🎫 REGISTER USING THIS FORM 🎫https://forms.gle/m9VWQ5pFtBtb2JTh8

This is a social dance competition where you will dance in a Rueda/circle, change partners and be judged individually. See competition process and judging criteria at the bottom👇

✅ This competition is Open Level and (almost) everyone is welcome to participate.
❌ The instructors and guest dancers of the festival are not allowed to participate.
✨ You will be judged by the instructors of the festival who all have experience in competitions. Including the current World Champion and Vice-Champion. List of judges below. 👇

Join the competition to:

⭐️ Challenge yourself and have fun in the spotlight
⭐️ Have amazing dances with competitors and judges
⭐️ Win festival passes and🥇🥈🥉
⭐️ Win feedback from the judges
⭐️ See your scores to improve

🏆 PRIZES YOU CAN WIN 🏆

We have medals and 16 sponsored festival passes on the line for biggest bachata events in Denmark, Germany and Norway! Besides that, the finalist will also get the chance to ask the judges for a brief feedback to guide you in your development. 🤩

* The price passes below are in chronological order of the events *

✨ 2 Full Passes for Oslo Bachata Kizomba Festival Sep 6-8, 2024 ✨
✨ 1 Full Pass for Quiero Bailar x Bachata Amor, Brussels Nov 15-16, 2024 ✨
✨ 2 Full Passes for Copenhagen Bachata Congress Dec 6-8, 2024 ✨
✨ 2 Full Passes for Bachata Xplosion Hamburg Jan 24-26, 2025 ✨
✨ 1 Full Pass for Bachata Amor, Valentine’s Festival, Brussels Feb 15-16, 2025 ✨
✨ 2 Full Passes for Latin Vibes Festival Mar 14-16, 2025 ✨
✨ 2 Full Passes for Ritmo Berlin Bachata Festival May 16-19, 2025 ✨
✨ 2 Full Passes for Aarhus Dance Festival 2025 ✨

📝 The finalist will be invited to a group-chat after the competition, where the 1st place will choose their prize first, then the 2nd place and so on, until there are no prizes left.

📧 REGISTRATION AND PRICE 📧

You need atleast a party pass for the Nordic Summer Dance Festival to join the competition. Additionally the price to join the competition is 120 DKK per person. Confirmation will be sent out after you register and pay.

🎫 REGISTER USING THIS FORM 🎫
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🗓️ THE PROGRAM 🗓️

The competition will take place at the beautiful festival venue on Saturday the 10th August 2024. Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3e, Aarhus C.

⁉️ You will be invited to a facebook messenger chat for updates a few days before the competition. Remember to write us if you’re not in it ⁉️

★ The competition will be 2 rounds. The 1st round is an elimination and the 2nd round is a final.

★ The registration and numbers for the first round happens between 13:15- 13:40. Late arrival without notification will get you disqualified.

★ The first round (including briefing will happen at 13:40 – 14:30

★ The results for who will go to the final, will come out as soon as possible after that.

★ The finalists will meet at 22:45 to prepare for the final round.

★ The final round will be at 23:00 – 23:45 prior to the shows

★ The award ceremony will be shortly after the shows

🔁 COMPETITION DETAILS AND SCORING 🔢

★ Judges:
🌟 Nicholas & Lena
🌟 Maykel & Zaka
🌟 Iban & Daria
🌟 Benjamin & Sara
🌟 Imad & Eliza
🌟 Gadir & Liza

★ The judges will judge you based on the following

🔹 Partner Technique & Connection (50%)
🔹 Solo Technique and Aesthetics (25%)
🔹 Musicality (25%)

★ There will be a maximum of 25 leaders and 25 followers for the competition.

★ We will play a mix of popular modern and classical bachata songs.

★ The first round will start with a warm-up song and then between 7-10 songs depending on the number of participants.

★ You will be rotating partners every 1,5-2 minutes.

★ The judges will score you between 1-5 points.

★ We will choose 4-7 Leaders + Followers for the final based on the scores.

★ In the final you will be dancing with the judges. Followers first. And then leaders.

★ The final will start with a warm-up song and then we will keep rotating every 1,5 – 2 minutes until you have danced with all the elected judges of your opposite role.

★ In this round all the judges will score you by giving you a rank/placement (both the ones you danced with and the ones who observed you dancing)

– For example, if you are 6 finalist, the judge who thinks you should be 3rd place will give you a rank/placement of 3.

★ The dancer of each role with the LEAST amount of points will get the 1st place, the second lowest points will get the 2nd place and so on.

🎫 REGISTER USING THIS FORM 🎫
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This competition is brought to you by Gadir Al-Saadi in collaboration with Nordic Summer Dance Festival.

Join us and take your dancing journey to the next step! 😍🤩

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