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AMATEUR BALBOA CONTEST
Monday, July 28
th
, 9pm

Joe’s Great American Bar and Grill

Maximum 16 couples * Finals to live music * Medals and fantastic prizes

For questions and preregistration email LABalboaNight (at) gmail (dot) com

JUDGES

Tise Chao, Nick Williams, Denise, Phelan, Minn Vo, Laura Keat and Jeremy Otth

PRIZES AND SPONSORS

Medals to the top 3 couples

2 Competition Passes (valid for all the dances) to San Francisco Bal Fest, courtesy of Burnie Gipson

2 2008 Balboa Rendezvous DVDs, courtesy of Joel Plys

2 copies of CD That Da Da Strain, courtesy of Dave Stuckey (Bonebrake Syncopators)

2 Passes to “John Reynolds and the Hollywood Hot Shots”, monthly show at the Steve Allen Theatre, courtesy of the Reynolds Brothers

More on the way!

SCHEDULE

 8:45pm: Registration closes

 9:00pm: Prelims

10:40pm: Finals

11:15pm: Awards

FORMAT AND RULES

  • Max 16 couples
  • $10 per couple
  • Relative placement scoring system
  • Prelims
  • Max 8 couples per heat, with up to 2 heats
  • Song 1 (medium): Pure Balboa only (close body contact kept all the time, no breakaways, no lollies, …)
  • Song 2 (medium fast): Bal-Swing
  • All skate song
  • The judges will pick up to 5 couples
  • Finals
  • Competitors dance all skate to 3 live songs
  • Song 1 (medium): Pure Balboa only (close body contact kept all the time, no breakaways, no lollies, …)
  • Song 2 (fast): Bal-Swing
  • Song 3 (super fast): Bal-Swing
  • Eligibility
  • The contest is only open to amateur dancers
  • An amateur here is a dancer who does NOT make more than 50% of his/her income from teaching Balboa (or other forms of Swing) and, in the past 5 years (i.e. since July 28th, 2003), neither has made it to the finals of other pro national Balboa competitions, nor has won the amateur division of a national Balboa competition.

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