Eurogames – Preliminary Timetable for Helsinki
Are you already looking forward to compete in Helsinki or to support our sport and your favourite couples? The preliminary timetable for the Dance Competitions at the Eurogames 2016 has been released and might help planning your stay in Helsinki.
For those of you who have not registered yet: Participant registration will be open until 31.05.2016. See our infomation about registrating for dance sports and the discount price for ESSDA members.
For dancers who want to dance but don’t have a dancing partner: you might send a post to our ESSDA facebook group – and who knows…
Pink Jukebox Trophy 2016

On it’s 20th anniversary the Pink Jukebox Trophy took place with an impressive starters list of over 100 couples. Happy birthday and thanks to the Pink Jukebox Team for having organized this high class event for such a long time and hopefully lots of years to come.
The result-links can be found on our result site.
A short report about the competition in London was published by eastlondonlines.
News about German Same-Sex Dance Competitions 2016
The results of the 13th Düsseldorf Grand Prix on the 23rd of February are online. A report (in German) and some photos can be found on the DVET Website.
The website for the German Open Equality Championships 2016 in Frankfurt/Main is online and the registration is open. The organisers Artemis Sport Frankfurt e.V. and TSC Phoenix Frankfurt e.V. look forward to welcome also many international dance couples. Find all information on the competition here.
The TSC Mondial e.V. Cologne will organise a Same-Sex Dancing competition on the 9th of October 2016. Apart from Standard and Latin competitions for C/B/A-Classes there will be a separate competition for social dancers who want to try out a dance competition for the first time. Information on the competition (in German) can be found on the organiser’s website.
Vienna Dance Contest 2016 Cancelled
Bad news for all dancers who planned to participate in Vienna once again this year. The following announcement reached us from the organizers:
After 10 successful years the Vienna Dance Contest team has decided to make a break in 2016, and spend the year with a creative, easy going renewal phase, and will be back with the 11th Vienna Dance Contest on 21/10/2017.
Save the date! More information will be published beginning of 2017.
Servus! and Bye Bye from Vienna and keep swinging!
Eurogames 2016 registration news
The early registration is no longer possible. But as an ESSDA/EGLSF member you still get a discount using the new code EGLSF2016L. The price is now 85€ plus a 5€ payment fee (undiscounted 110€ plus 5€).
You can now register for more than 3 dance competitions (e.g. Senior 10-Dancers). The registration site has been adjusted and you can add additional competitions for an extra fee of 20€.
Find the direct link and instructions for your registration below.
Payment of the ESSDA Membership Fee
As we are aware of the high bank commission for transfers from non-Euro countries we currently are sorting out other possibilities to pay the yearly ESSDA membership fee.
Especially for the UK members and participants of the UK Pink Jukebox Competition on 20th of February in London we can offer the possibility to pay the membership fee in cash (Euros or Pound Sterling) to our membership officer Chrisi Lyons.
Results of the Saltatio Equality Trophy Hamburg

The results of the competition on 28th of November 2015 in Hamburg are now online on the page of Club Saltatio. In addition there is a nice article about the competition (in German only).
Hopefully the Club Saltatio will have a third edition of the Equality Trophy next year.