Competitions:

As our name indicates, this is going to be a showdown between Colleges & Univiersities. Although Swing Dancing is mostly a social dance. We want people to be able to show off. e have a few different events planned for the weekend that will allow you to do that.

All Varsity Award:

Thoughout Friday & Saturday we will be taking nominations for the All-Varsity Award. This award is designed to recognize the contributions of a Swing Club and the impact they have on the college campus and its students. The All-Varsity Award is designed to recognize College and University Swing Clubs and show that their efforts and dedication is not going unnoticed. Anybody can nominate a club for this award. Nomination forms are available at the registration desk.

Jill & Jack's:

We did not get confused and type it backwards. The Jill & Jack competitions (similar to Jack & Jill's) is when the ladies will lead the gentleman. The re is no fee to enter this competition. The winners will be decided by the audience.

Jack & Jill's:

Defintely one of the highlights from last year's AVS, we are bringing them back. Jack & Jill's are the best contests to enter if you have never competed before, you don't need to sign up with partner as you will be randombly dancing with other people. You basically just social dance with random people to a few different songs. Some Jack & Jil's have a big range of different rules and technicalities; we don't.

Format:

- We basically want to see good swing dancing (wether is 6-count swing, lindy hop, charleston, Balboa, etc). Anything goes as long as it swings. Emphasis will be given to proper excution of moves and maintaing relationship to the music.

- Preliminaries: They will be held in an all-skate format (everyone dances). Each heat will dance to three different songs at three different tempos (slow, medium, fast in no particular order). For safety reasons, during the preliminary rounds aerials, lifts and drops are not allowed. Each contestant will be judged indivudually.

- Finals: They will be held in a battle format. Contestants will be paired up and judged as a couple. Each couple will dance to a certain number of phrases of the song until another couple comes in. THe first two songs will be DJ'd and the last song will be done to the music played by the live band. More instructions will be given at the competitors meetings.

Brought to you by the Atlanta Swing-Era Dance Associaton and the Emory Swing Club