The Inter Varsity Dance Competition (IVDC) is an annual student dance competition organized by the Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA). The IVDA Regulations write about which entries, dress codes, and dances will be part of the competition.
All UK universities can send representatives as long as they are IVDA members, and students who are studying at universities without a team can get special consideration for dancing for other universities. Currently around 33 UK universities participate in this competition.
While dancesport in the UK has declined showing that as Strictly Come Dancing has improved, the Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA) remains consistently popular and struggles to find a place in the UK that is big enough for its annual competition.. Since 2007 the competition has been held at Winter Gardens, Blackpool.
At the moment there are no equivalent students in any other country even though the US has a strong student scene, and mainland Europe builds its own competition scene.
IVDC is run with the cooperation of IDTA and the British amateur tarious association, but remains an independent competition.
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Competitions and events
IVDC is an annual event held since 1962 and is hosted by various UK member universities and usually occurs in February or March each year. There are individual competitions during the day in ballroom, Latin, rock'n'roll, offbeat and Tim Match.
For students Latin and Ballroom activities are divided according to experience: Beginner, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Ex Students are also able to compete in several competitions. In the lower ranking competition, apply the clothing restrictions. Beginners are encouraged and there is a "Best Beginner's Trofi Team" presented to the university with the most successful beginners overall. Other individual returnable trophies are available:
- Modern Eastern trophy Olegovich Gulinskiy Advanced (To commemorate a Leeds Dancesport student who died while studying in 2000)
- Modern Novice Trophy
- Modern Intermediate Trophy
- Far Far Latin's Latin Trophy
- The Novice Latin Trophy
- Latin Intermediate Trophies
- The former trophy trophy student
- Former Latin cup student
- Basic Beginner Dance Basics (awarded to the Beginner pair completing the highest in all four Beginner events)
- Trophy Rock 'n' Roll London Options
- The Edna Murphy Shield (presented to the most promising couple, as decided by the Adjudicator Chair)
- The Best Newcomers Trophy from Far's Dance (given to couples who received the highest score in team matches and who have not competed in previous IVDC team matches)
The Offbeat Competition is a "Fun" "freestyle" team even - the university can enter 3 minutes of routine in each dance style. Interpretations vary from fun routines like "The Full Monty" to high-quality street dance routines. The Offbeat Winners Shield is presented to the winning team.
The most important event of the competition is the team match, which gathers a team of 32 dancers from each member university against each other (This is divided into 8 teams: A, B, C, D). This competition has undergone drastic improvements in recent years after innovation by Alistair Braden while at Bristol University. The team match is now a two-division system that ranks all universities in, not traditional team matches. The following Team Cup was awarded at IVDC:
- The EADA Overall IVDA Champions Trophy (presented to the first placed university in the overall rankings)
- Choice IVDA Cup Runner-Up Overall
- The Far's Dance A-Team Cup Winner
- Trophy of Choice IVDA A-Team Runners-Up
- B-Team Winner Shield
- Trophy Runners-Up IDTA B-TEAM
- The C-Team Winner Shield
- Trophy Runner-Up IDTA C-Team
- D-Team Winners Cup
- Trophy Runner-Up IDTA D-Team
- 2nd Division 2nd Division EADA Trophies
- Choice IVDA Division 2 Runner-Up Trophy
- IVDA Challenge Trouble (awarded to university with the highest placement consisting entirely of teams in division 2)
The award-winning trophies are the EADA Overall trophy and the A-Team trophy.
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History of results
Offbeat results are as follows:
2017 Nottingham
2016 Nottingham Cardiff 2015 2014 Manchester
2013 Kent
Liverpool 2012 2011 Birmingham - Imperial 2010 2007 Imperial - 2005 Imperial Hotel 2004 Sheffield - 2003 Bristol - 2002 Sheffield - 2001 Cambridge
2000 London
1999 Essex
1998 Sheffield - 1997 Imperial Hotel 1996 Bath - 1995 Imperial 1994 Nottingham - 1993 Imperial 1992 Manchester
1991 Bath - 1974 Manchester
See also
- Ballroom dance
- Competitive dance
- Basic dance topics
References
External links
- Constitution of the Inter Varsity Dance Association
- IVDA home page for more rules, dates and guidelines and to see which universities have representatives
- IDTA
- EADA
- European Student Dancesport Tournament
- Link to American Collegiate Dancesport
- IVDA 2008 results
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