Dear dancers! 

In order to get everybody ready for our fabulous Shake the Change Festival 2024 competitions, we are sharing the general rules and guidelines for each competition category ahead of time. 

Best of luck to everyone who’s planning to compete!

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SINGLE SHAKE

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‘Single Shake’ is our endearing way of saying ‘Show us your kickass solo!’

Our SOLO JAZZ  competition will be taking place to live music. 

PRELIMINARIES: Competitors will be asked to take a spot on the dancefloor and dance to three songs (a warm-up, mid-tempo and a faster-tempo song) in an all-skate format.

FINALS: Single Shake finalists will also have the opportunity to dance to live music, this time in a spotlight format. First, each finalist will have an opportunity to dance to 1 full chorus (16 x 8), then ½ chorus (8 x 8), and, finally, the finals will finish with an all-skate jam of all the solo dancers jazzing it out on the dancefloor together.

The approximate tempo of music you’ll be dancing to is:

First chorus 180bpm

Second 190bpm

and All Skate 200bpm.

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DOUBLE SHAKE

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Our Double Shake competition is all about mixing and matching & partner dancing. In short, it is a classic MIX ‘N’ MATCH competition 😉

The format is pretty standard:

PRELIMINARIES: You will be matched with a random partner by our competition MC and asked to dance to three songs (a warm-up, and two other tunes) in an all-skate format.

FINALS: If you and your partner make it to the finals (hurray for you guys!), you will be dancing to 1 full chorus (16 x 8) and ½ chorus (8 x 8), in spotlight format. When everybody gets their turn, it’s all skate time! #swingouthard

The competition will take place to live music. The tempo of music you’ll be dancing to is:

First Chorus: 160bpm

Second chorus: 175bpm

and All Skate: 190bpm