ASU DevilDancesport

Big news everyone!

If you are still in town, and are interested in reviewing and expanding the material we covered in classes last semester, Devil DanceSport has secured practice and review space for us.

Starting May 29, the DDS practices will be every Thursday from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the Paragon Dance Center in Tempe. The practices will cover patterns, technique, and new concepts adequate for all levels of dancers. The sessions will cover and expand on material from the Latin/Swing/Ballroom and the Latin/Salsa courses.

If you are a student or DDS member, bring your student ID to get in for free! Community members without student ID pay $5 at the door.

If you missed our Saturday practice, we have election results for next year! Here are your 2014–2015 Devil DanceSport officers:

• President: Ashur Rael
• Team Captain: Rebekah Crandall, William Langenbach
• Event Director: Paige Knuth
• Treasurer: Carlos Ballesteros
• Secretary: Kelsey Marie Little
• Risk Management Officer: Nic Spindler (Lead), John Zobian, Edward Neal
• Marketing Director: Ashley Elizabeth

We are always looking for more people to get involved! We still have multiple committees where we need volunteers. If you want to help out, just contact us!

Midterm Pictures and Videos have now been posted.

Number of midterm photos: 3567
Number of midterm videos: 90
Total size: 21451 MB (21 GB)

Have you ever wanted to compete but not sure what it would entail? Are you interested in going to Las Vegas but don’t want to go completely unprepared?

Don’t worry, we can help with that!

Devil DanceSport is offering DDS Competition 101, a beginner’s competition to get all of you familiarized with the way ballroom dance competitions are run.

DDS Competition 101 will be held in the Maroon Gym of the Sun Devil Fitness Center, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, on Saturday, March 29, 2014. We will offer heats in Newcomer and Bronze for all dances across the main four dancesport styles (American Smooth, American Rhythm, International Standard, and International Latin).

If you signed up to attend the Desert Challenge competition at UNLV, you are automatically signed up for DDS Competition 101 in the same events and level you registered for UNLV. This is to make sure that when you step out onto their floor, you don’t have a deer-in-the-headlights look.

There is no cost to attend our competition training, so come on down! Just fill out our registration packet before Tuesday, March 25, 2014.

It’s that time of the year again… it’s time to go to Las Vegas!

The Desert Challenge Intercollegiate Dancesport Championships will be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on April 25–26. Devil DanceSport’s mission is to dominate the UNLV competition. If you accept this mission, Devil DanceSport will cover hotel, transportation, and registration for you! All you have to do is to fill out the registration packet (linked below).

DDS members will only need to pay $125 for two nights of hotel, a spot on the bus, as well as your Desert Challenge entry fee.

For this competition, we will use our point-based travel subsidy system. We will take the point total from the spring semester to compute your travel subsidy. We have pre-calculated subsidies for all of you, and you can check how much you would pay at our travel subsidies page.

In order to travel with the team or claim any travel subsidies, you must be cleared as a Devil DanceSport member before Tuesday, March 25; for more information about how to become a member, check out our membership page.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must return your Vegas packets to a DDS officer by Thursday, March 27, 2014.

• Full competitor packet (includes FAQ and all the forms we need from you)
• UNLV information and rules packet (for all the rules of the competition)
• Extra registration form (for those of you with a bajillion partners. You need one per partnership.)

The annual Orange Blossom Ball hosted by Dancesport at UCR will be held on April 12, and Devil DanceSport is going this year!

The Orange Blossom Ball registration packet will cover your registration fee and hotel. For this competition, we will use our point-based travel subsidy system. We will take the point total from the spring semester to compute your travel subsidy.

In order to receive travel subsidies, you must be cleared as a Devil DanceSport member for the spring semester by Tuesday, March 18; for more information about how to become a member, check out our membership page.

The base unsubsidized cost for the UCR package is $80; if you met all of the travel subsidy requirements, you will receive between $15 and $30 off your travel package! We have pre-calculated subsidies for all of you, and you can check how much you would pay at our travel subsidies page.

If you do not have a way of getting to Riverside yet, don’t worry! We will coordinate rides to make sure that you can make it there.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must return your UCR packets to a DDS officer by Thursday, March 20, 2014!

The annual Intercollegiate Showdown hosted by the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company will be held on March 15, and Devil DanceSport is going!

The CCBDC registration packet (pdf | docx) will cover your registration fee and hotel. For this competition, we will use our point-based travel subsidy system. We will take the point total from either the fall or spring semester (whichever works best for you) to compute your travel subsidy.

In order to receive travel subsidies, you must be cleared as a Devil DanceSport member for the spring semester by Friday, February 28; for more information about how to become a member, check out our membership page.

The base unsubsidized cost for the Intercollegiate Showdown package is $80; if you met all of the travel subsidy requirements, you will receive between $15 and $30 off your travel package! We have pre-calculated subsidies for all of you, and you can check how much you would pay at our travel subsidies page.

If you do not have a way of getting to Claremont yet, don’t worry! We will coordinate rides to make sure that you can make it there.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must return your Claremont packets to a DDS officer by Tuesday, March 4, 2013!

Mark your calendars! UCSD’s 19th annual Latin Ballroom competition, Dance By the Shores, is right around the corner (March 1 to be exact), and you bet Devil DanceSport is going!

The UCSD registration packet (linked below) will cover your registration fee and hotel. For this competition, we will use our point-based travel subsidy system. We will take the point total from either the fall or spring semester (whichever works best for you) to compute your travel subsidy.

In order to receive travel subsidies, you must be cleared as a Devil DanceSport member for the spring semester by Friday, February 7; for more information about how to become a member, check out our membership page.

The base unsubsidized cost for the Dance by the Shores package is $100; if you met all of the travel subsidy requirements, you will receive between $20 and $40 off your travel package! We have pre-calculated subsidies for all of you, and you can check how much you would pay at our travel subsidies page.

If you do not have a way of getting to San Diego yet, don’t worry! We will coordinate rides to make sure that you can make it there.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must return your UCSD packets to a DDS officer by Thursday, February 13, 2013!

Full competitor packet (includes FAQ and all the forms we need from you)
DBTS rules and information (for all 1.4 of you who care about such minutiae)
Extra registration form (for those of you with a bajillion partners. You need one per partnership.)

We noticed that the mentorship request form was giving some people some permission issues; this should now be addressed. For more details on our mentorship and tutoring program, click on Mentorship in the sidebar!

It’s competition season, everybody, and we are starting our year in central California!

The Seventh Annual Mustang Ball DanceSport Competition  will be held at Cal Poly’s Chumash Auditorium in San Luis Obispo, CA, on February 8, 2014. For those of you who are planning on attending, Devil DanceSport will cover two nights of hotel and your registration fee for the competition. All you have to do is fill out the registration packet (linked below).

For this competition, we will use our point-based travel subsidy system. (Since the registration deadline falls early in the Spring semester, we will utilize Fall-semester subsidy points to calculate how large your discounts will be.) The base unsubsidized cost for the Mustang Ball package is $90; if you met all of the travel subsidy requirements, you will receive between $20 and $40 off your travel package! We have pre-calculated subsidies for all of you, and you can check how much you would pay at our travel subsidies page.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you must return your Mustang Ball packets to a DDS officer by January 23, 2014. Do keep in mind that Mustang Ball uses the O2CM registration system (same one as DDSI), and they have enabled online registration (unlike DDSI), so you also need to head over to the Mustang Ball Entry Form webpage to finish your registration.

• Full competitor packet (includes FAQ and all the forms we need from you)
• Mustang Ball rules and information webpage (for the few of you that actually wonder about the rules of the competition)
• Mustang Ball registration site (note that DDS will still handle your payment, so you don’t have to worry about mailing checks to Cal Poly)