Inter Varsity Dance Competition
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The Inter Varsity Dance Competition (IVDC) is an annual student dancesport competition organised by Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA[1]). The IVDA write rules regarding entries, dress code and which dances will be part of the competition.
All UK universities may send representatives provided they are a member of the IVDA, and students who study at universities that do not have teams, may gain special consideration to dance for another university. Currently approximately 22 UK universities take part in this competition
Cambridge University is the reigning champion (for the 4th year consecutively), having won all team matches at the competition in 2009.
The most important event of the competition is the team match, which pits teams of 32 dancers from each member university against each other. This competition has undergone a drastic overhaul in recent years and the team match is now a 2 division system that ranks all universities entered, instead of the traditional team match.
This is an annual event running since 1962 and hosted by different UK member universities.
Whilst Dancesport in the UK has seen a decline, that shows like Strictly Come Dancing have rectified, the Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA) has seen no such decline and struggles to find a UK venue large enough for its annual competition[2]. Most of the Annual competitions in recent history have been hosted in Blackpool
At this time there is no student equivalent in other countries although the US has a strong student scene, and mainland Europe is building up its own competition scene.
IVDC is run with cooperation from the IDTA[3] and the English amateur dancesport association ltd [4] but remains and independent competition.
[edit] References
Inter Varsity Dance Association Constitution
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- IVDA home page for more rules, dates and guidelines and to see which universities have representatives
- Dance Today Review
- European Students Dancesport Tournament
- Links to American Collegiate Dancesport
- IVDA 2008 results
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