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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Watch the Dutch Formation Team and Imagine: Update!

The first “serious” same-sex dance sequence of Standard Formation Dance was performed at the European Championships 2015 in Poland by the Dutch team DSV Dance Impression.  Watch the video at approx 2:40min on youtube. Even if the same-sex sequences have…

Results of Swiss Open Zürich 2015

The results of the Swiss Open Equality Competitions (21/11/2015 in Zürich) are online: Results of Standard Men Results of Standard Women Results of Latin Men Results of Latin Women Next year’s competition is already scheduled on 19th November 2016. Plan…

Results of Dutch Equality Championships 2015

On Sunday 1st of November the Dutch Equality Championships 2015 took place in Almere. Together with mainstream competitions there were same-sex couples dancing for the dutch champion title. The medalists of the A-Class competitons are

Mission Statement

ESSDA is the European Same-Sex Dance Association. ESSDA will respect differences as they may occur between people, concerning race, gender, sexual or political orientation, religion, nationality or language, disability or any other base. ESSDA will respect differences as they may…

Two more women on the ESSDA board

By email and at the AGM 2015 in Stockholm it was pointed out and discussed that the ESSDA board really needs more women.

The Bid is open!

The ESSDA board would like to open the bidding for the European Same-Sex Dance Championships 2017.