The European Tournament for Dancing Students or ETDS is a recurring tournament for

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and

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dancing for students from Europe.

Introduction

The tournament is held twice a year, once during the

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weekend and once in autumn. The event always starts on a Friday evening and ends on the following Monday morning. Although each ETDS is organised by a different party, the structure remains fairly constant: on Friday evening, the

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program takes place, in which dancers without a partner can try to find someone with which to compete in one or both dance disciplines. Blind dating is also a motivation for some dancers that want to meet new people. On Saturday, the

tournament for the ''breitensport'' class (German, meaning amateur sports for the masses) takes place and the

tournament for the open class as well as, if so chosen by the organising party, for the CloseD class. On Sunday, all classes dance the respective other discipline. The event ends on Monday with a last common breakfast. The organisation of each tournament is in the hands of a different participating university. The tournament takes place in the city of the organising university, the location changing every half year to another European city. So far, the tournament has taken place most of the times either in

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or the

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. In autumn 2015, the ETDS took place in

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, breaking that series for the first time. With the participation of some students from South Africa, it also premiered hosting dancers from outside Europe. Although the primary focus of the ETDS lies in organising a tournament of high standards, the event equally aims at creating a social happening where dancers from all of Europe can meet each other. This is encouraged by the possibility to blind date and by a themed festival ("motto party") on the event's Saturday evening and a gala ball on Sunday evening. The sleeping accommodation is commonly a local gym.

History

The ETDS was founded by the university dance teams of

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and

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

, who agreed to get to know each other during a tournament. The event was organised by these three German universities for a number of times. There was not a regular structure, but the tournament was organised ad hoc. Finding a sleeping accommodation was easy, as the number of participants was still very low. In November 1990, a tournament prize was introduced that has been used ever since, “der tanzmaus” (German for “the dance mouse”), a pluche mouse. The tanzmaus was a donation of the university of Kiel; Clausthal was the first university to win the mouse. It is given to the winning university which "hosts" the prize until the next ETDS. In December 1991, a tournament during

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took place. The tournament gained more participants and Berlin started participating as well. Berlin won the dance mouse during this Sinterklaas tournament, and promised to organise the event somewhere in the future. During this tournament, only one class existed. In April 1992, the tournament took place in Clausthal. This was the first tournament in which the team of

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started participating. Some tournaments later,

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and

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started participating as well. The University of Berlin fulfilled their promise in 1993 by taking care of the organisation of the tournament. The tournament still did not have separate classes. The next tournament took place in the spring of 1994, and the tournament gained in popularity; fifteen universities from Germany participated. Also, for the first time, universities from the Netherlands started to participate. The new universities were from

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and

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

also joined this tournament. The tournament that was held in the summer of 1995 was the first event to take place in the Netherlands. The organisation was in the hands of ESDV Footloose from

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joined during this tournament. From now on, the ETDS was no longer organised on an ad hoc basis, but was organised regularly twice each year, during Pentecost and in the autumn, each time by a different university. The number of participants continued to grow, and around 2004 a third class, "masters", was added to the breitensport section. More than 500 participants took part in the 41st tournament in Groningen in May 2009, and another breitensport class by the name of “champions” was introduced. The event continued to grow in popularity, and 570 participants were competing in the 47th edition during Pentecost, May 2012. In October 2015, the event was held for the first time in the Czech Republic, in the city of

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. This was the first ETDS not organised in Germany or the Netherlands.

Rules

Every ETDS organisation is allowed to make their own rules for the tournament. Each organisation describes rules about clothing and the calculation of the tanzmaus evaluation. Because the focus of each organization may be different, the balance between social orientation and competition changes slightly. Nevertheless, several rules exist during each tournament:

Structure

Dancers can sign up for two disciplines,

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and

. In the breitensport class, only untrained and low level training dancers are allowed. Professional dancers, i.e. those who have reached a higher class in official tournaments held by dance associations, are excluded from the breitensport tournaments. They instead dance in the open class which ranges at least from B to S class dancers. Some hosting universities decide to provide another separate tournament for a class called CloseD, which consists of dancers of the official D and C classes (varying between national dance associations). In case a separate tournament for this class is chosen not to be held, the organising team will classify the concerning dancers into either breitensport (D class) or open class (C class). Participants that belong to a dance formation may also be required to dance in the CloseD or open class, depending on the league in which their formation is classified. In the breitensport section, a pre-qualification round takes place, where each participating couple is classified into the amateur, professional ("profi"), master or the optional champion class, so that each couple will dance the subsequent actual tournament in a class that matches their levels. These tournaments follow the rules of official dancing tournaments. During the finals, open adjudication is sometimes performed, with each adjudicator showing their ranking of the couples on the floor immediately after each dance. However, closed adjudication is often chosen in order to save time. There are winner's certificates and medals for all participants in the finals as well as trophies (instead of medals) for the

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finishers.

Dances

In the respective disciplines, the following dances have to be performed (example rule set): * ''Breitensport'': ballroom preliminary round:

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, from the semi-final of masters and champions additionally:

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and/or

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; Latin preliminary round:

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, jive, from the semi-final of masters and champions additionally:

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* ''CloseD'': similar to breitensport, but with a re-dance round for those who didn't directly qualify for the next round * ''Open class'': similar to CloseD The ETDS has also seen separate competitions without class separation in

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and

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Adjudication

The adjudicators are chosen from volunteers of the participating universities that do not compete themselves in the discipline in which they judge. Adjudicators are selected by their adjudicator's license, by their experience and/or by their level of dancing in regular dance competitions.

Blind dating

A blind date couple consists of two dancers from different universities. Blind dating is mandatory in the CloseD and open classes (in the latter case sometimes being replaced by composing couples by the lot or by other rules), and stimulated in the breitensport by a blind date programme on Friday and Saturday for the following day's tournament. During the breitensport tournaments, a blind date couple can score more points for a university, and thereby improve their team's chance of winning the tanzmaus prize.

Participants

Every member of a student dancing society or university student can participate. Each couple dances under the flag of his or her university or dance society. Staff members of the university or dancing society are also allowed to participate. When universities have too few participants to compete for the tanzmaus, they can team up with other universities to improve their chances.

Nationalities

Every European university or student dance society can participate. In practice, a majority of the participants is German. The second largest participating party is from the Netherlands, and some dancers from the

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and other neighbouring countries participate as well. The record for the most teams participating in an ETDS was set at 54th ETDS Brno, where 37 teams from 11 countries took part. This was the first participation for the teams from

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and

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Germany

From Germany, universities from the following cities have been participating in the ETDS: *

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

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Cottbus Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with exten ...

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

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Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

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Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

München Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

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Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

The Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the participants often dance under the flag of a dancing society, unlike in Germany, where participants dance under the flag of their university. From the Netherlands, the following cities have been participating in the ETDS: *

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

(dancing society S.D.V. AmsterDance) *

(dancing society D.S.D.A. Blue Suede Shoes) *

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

(dancing society D.S.V. 4 Happy Feet) *

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

(dancing society SSV The Blue Toes) *

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

(dancing society S.D.A. Leidance) *

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

(dancing society M.S.D.V. Let's Dance) *

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

(dancing society S.D.V.N. Dance Fever) *

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

(dancing society Erasmus Dance Society) *

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...

(dancing society U.S.D.V. U Dance) *

Wageningen Wageningen () is a municipality and a historic city in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specialises in life sciences. The municipality had a population of in , of which many t ...

(dancing society WuBDA)

Other European countries

Czech Republic

Estonia

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France

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Great Britain

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* Hull *

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Norway

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

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Poland

Ukraine

Switzerland

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Hungary

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Nations outside Europe

List of all tournaments

* 01. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Braunschweig, 1989 * 02. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Kiel, November 1990 * 03. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, May 1991 * 04. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Kiel, 6 December 1991 * 05. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, April 1992 * 09. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Berlin, Pentecost 1993 * 10. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Aachen, autumn 1993 * 11. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Ulm, Pentecost 1994 * 12. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Kiel, autumn 1994 * 13. Universitäten-Breitensport-Tanzturnier, Dortmund, Pentecost 1995 * 14. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Eindhoven, autumn 1995 * 15. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Berlin, Pentecost 1996 * 16. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, autumn 1996 * 17. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Aachen, Pentecost 1997 * 18. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Eindhoven, autumn 1997 * 19. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Groningen, Pentecost 1998 * 20. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Berlin, 16 October 1998 * 21. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Kiel, 21 May 1999 * 22. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Clausthal-Zellerfeldt, 5 November 1999 * 23. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Dortmund, 9 June 2000 * 24. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Ulm, 27 October 2000 * 25. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Aachen, 1 June 2001 * 26. Internationales Uni-Tanzturnier, Groningen, 19 October 2001 * 27th ETDS Eindhoven, 17 May 2002 * 28th ETDS Berlin, 11 October 2002 * 29th ETDS Kiel, 6 June 2003 * 30th ETDS Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 17 October 2003 * 31st ETDS Wuppertal, 28 May 2004 * 32nd ETDS Valkenswaard, 22 October 2004 * 33rd ETDS Enschede, 13 May 2005 * 34th ETDS autumn, 7 October 2005 in Aachen (Motto: Red) * 35th ETDS Pentecost, 2 June 2006 in Clausthal (Motto: Under the Sea) * 36th ETDS autumn, 27 October 2006 in Eindhoven (Motto: Thunder and Lightning) * 37th ETDS Pentecost, 25 May 2007 in Berlin (Motto: Bad Taste) * 38th ETDS autumn, 5 October 2007 in Dortmund (Motto: Dancing in the 80s) * 39th ETDS Pentecost, 9 May 2008 in Kiel (Motto: Aufgetakelt) * 40th ETDS autumn, 10 October 2008 in Kaiserslautern (Motto: Hollywood) * 41st ETDS Pentecost, 29 May 2009 in Groningen (Motto: once upon a time) * 42nd ETDS autumn, 16 October 2009 in Kaiserslautern (Motto: Winterwonderland) * 43rd ETDS Pentecost, 21 May 2010 in Aachen (Motto: Pyjamaparty) * 44th ETDS autumn, 8 October 2010 in Kiel (Motto: ohne Mottoparty) * 45th ETDS Pentecost, 10 June 2011 in Eindhoven (Motto: Come Fly With Us) * 46th ETDS autumn, 7 October 2011 in Kaiserslautern (Motto: Carnival of Venice) * 47th ETDS Pentecost, 25 May 2012 in Enschede (Region Twente) (Motto: Game On) * 48th ETDS autumn, 5 October 2012 in Nijmegen (Motto: Arabian Nights) * 49th ETDS Pentecost, 17 May 2013 in Enschede (Region Twente) (Motto: Fant'ASIA) * 50th ETDS autumn, 11 October 2013 in Clausthal (Motto: Walpurgis) * 51st ETDS Pentecost, 6 June 2014 in Kiel (Motto: dancing submarine) * 52nd ETDS autumn, 10 October 2014 in Monheim am Rhein , Düsseldorf (Motto: Space) * 53rd ETDS Pentecost, 23 May 2015 in Kaiserslautern (Motto: Beach Party) * 54th ETDS autumn, 9 October 2015 in

(Motto: Dancing Zoo) * 55th ETDS Pentecost, 14. May 2016 in Berlin (Motto: Die goldenen Zwanziger) * 56th ETDS autumn, 14 October 2016 in Utrecht (Motto: HighSchool) * 57th ETDS Pentecost, 2 June 2017 in Aachen (Motto: Rock'n'Roll) * 58th ETDS autumn, 6 October 2017 in Kaiserslautern (Motto: KISS:keep it small and simple) * 59th ETDS Pentecost, 18 May 2018 in Kiel (Motto: Te-Kiel-A) * 60th ETDS autumn, 12 October 2018 in

(Motto: MovieNight) * 61st ETDS Pentecost, 7 June 2019 organized by Clausthal-Zellerfeld, took place in Seesen (Motto: Magic Forrest) * 62nd ETDS autumn, 11 October 2019 in Groningen (Motto: The Dancing Dead) * 63rd ETDS Pentecost, 3 June 2022 in Enschede (Motto: Saturday Morning Cartoons)

Future tournaments

* 63rd ETDS Pentecost 2020 in Amsterdam (Motto: The Blacklight District)
Cancelled due to the

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. * 64th ETDS autumn 2020 in Delft (Motto: ETDS 3030: Festival of the Future)
Postponed at first to autumn 2021, later to autumn 2022.

References

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External links

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