IMPORTANT:

We will announce the details soon, but for now the most important for you is to know that we want to try the new concept of workshops levels:

• we plan 3 social levels for those who don;t want to go to audition – those levels you choose according to your own feeling and experience
• and 3 levels divided by WSDC points (Nov / INT / ADV+AS) – and for those levels you have to go to Audition if you don’t have points.
• of course you have to be aware that if the registration goes the way that almost all of you will register for „points levels” we will be forced to come back to previous levels and divided all of you into the groups that our ballrooms can handle 😉 
• But we would like to try to adress the needs of those who are not competing and for who the audition is very stressfull situation 

AUDITION:

IMPORTANT
People from all levels should be on time at the beginning of the audition.
There is a chance that teachers will like to see all of you at the dancefloor at the same time.

TRUST YOUR TEACHERS
Audition is not necessarily about the level of dancing.
It allows teachers to see if the material they’ve prepared is suitable for you at this moment.
If you don’t make it to a higher level try not to take it personally. It doesn’t mean that you are a bad dancer. It just means that this time you will probably benefit more from a lower level class.
And remember – even advanced dancers benefit from lower level class.
There is always something new to learn!

ARE AUDITIONS PERFECT FOR ASSIGNING PEOPLE TO LEVELS?
In our opinion – they are not!
Neither are WSDC points by the way…
And yet we have to do it somehow and for now we have no better solution.
If you have some thoughts about this – you can find Event Directors and share your opinion. Maybe we will figure out a better solution for next year’s Santa Swing edition thanks to you.

In a perfect world, teachers would dance with everyone but we can probably all agree it is not possible during big international event. By the way – we do organise Summer Summit, a smaller event where dancers auditioning for higher levels can dance with teachers. But with this many dancers at Santa Swing it’s just not possible.


SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT DANCE JOURNEY
We would like to share with you an article written by Marcin Skalski.
You can find there some interesting points of view about dance improvement in West Coast Swing:

You can read the article HERE.