Schedule
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Competition information
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill competitions are designed to highlight skills in spontaneous WCS dancing and the ability to dance well with a variety of partners. Competitors enter as individuals, are randomly assigned partners and dance to music selected by Raw Connection. This is a degendered competition.
Newcomer Category
Any inexperienced dancer under 12 months and does not have any novice points.
Novice Category
Novice Category Competitors who have less than 15 points in Novice.
Intermediate Category
Intermediate Category Competitors who have 16 Novice points and more, but less than 30 Intermediate points should compete in this division.
Advanced Category
Advanced Category Competitors who have more than 30+ Intermediate points and less than 45 Advanced points.
All Star Category
All-Stars Category Competitors who have 45 Advanced points.
Sophisticated Cateogry
The Sophisticated Division is an additional fun division for persons over the age of 35 years! Persons over 35 years can dance in their respective Division level as well as the Sophisticated Division.
Masters Category
Open to all levels, competitors must be 50 or older.
Classic Routine
Classic division is designed to highlight skills in choreographed West Coast Swing.
Competitors enter as a couple, supply their own music and perform a routine prepared in advance. Couples may only break away from each other for a maximum of 8 beats at a time. A maximum of 5 weight support moves are allowed per routine. Dancers must maintain physical contact with the floor during all weight support moves. Competitors can only enter this division once.
Pro-Am Routine
This division is designed to develop routine dancers and showcase an amateur dancing with their Professional instructor.
The Pro-Am routine division must contain 80% WCS. Lifts and Aerials are not allowed. Drops are permitted. Each Pro is limited to three (3) students. Music must be no less than 2 minutes and no more than 3 minutes.
To qualify for this Pro/Am Routine Category, there must be an instructor/student relationship. An Amateur is someone who HAS NOT RECEIVED payment for teaching or for teaching privates. A Professional is someone who HAS RECEIVED payment for teaching group classes, privates lessons or been paid for a dance show or demonstration in the last three years.
All Australian Jack & Annie
In the All Australian Jack & Annie, you’ll be randomly paired with a leader or follower of any level. (This is open to any competitor including overseas / international competitors.) The randomly selected partners will then dance to 3-4 songs in the heats and be judged as a couple to make finals.
Why do we call this Jack & Annie?
Jack is credited with coining the term “Jack & Jill” contest in the 1950s, inventing a dance contest in which dancers do not know their music or their partner in advance. Jack is also credited with advancing the slotted form of West Coast Swing. Along with his partner in life, love and Swing, Annie Hirsch, he was instrumental in keeping Swing dancing alive from coast to coast until his passing in 2013.
Annie Hirsch Co-founded the World Swing Dance Council with Skippy Blair, Feeling a strong need for dancers to compete in their appropriate “level”, she developed the points tracking system and several competition guidelines that are still in use today. Annie Hirsch and her love, Jack Carey have dedicated their hearts and much of their lives to keeping the art of Swing dancing alive.
