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Get ready to show your stuff! This year's bluesSHOUT! will feature 6 Blues contests judged by our top-notch Blues instructors and DJ'd by our amazing Blues DJs. All contests are free, and you can sign up at the event the day of the contest. Got questions? View our competition rules.
Invitational Jack & JillFinals: 10:00pm Friday night dance.
This showcase competition is the place for national-level dance instructors to strut their stuff. Invitational competitors may not compete in any other contest. There will be no prelims, just one round of spotlight dancing Jack & Jill style. The instructors will judge each other based on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality and Creativity.
Open Jack & Jill
Sign up: no sign up, just get out and dance.
Prelims: 11:15pm Friday night; Tap-out dance.
Finals: Friday night; immediately following tap-out dance.
This competition is open to all levels of dancer in any style Blues. Just
grab someone and start dancing. The judges will continue tapping out the crowd
and you'll keep selecting new partners until we reach approximately 6 couples.
Then partners will be assigned at random, and you'll be judged as a couple in the final round.
Music will be of various tempos and styles, selected by our DJs. Dancers
will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Strictly Ballroom Blues
Sign up: at event by 4:30pm Saturday.
Contestant meeting: 4:30pm Saturday.
Prelims: 4:45pm Saturday.
Finals: 10:00pm Saturday night dance.
This competition is for partnered couples. The music selected by our DJs will be of various tempos
but will be primarily be in the Classic, Piano, and Jazz Blues style. You may dance any style of Blues, and
dancers will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Strictly Jook Joint
Sign up: at event by 4:30pm Saturday.
Contestant meeting: 4:30pm Saturday.
Prelims: 5:30pm Saturday.
Finals: 11:15pm Saturday night dance.
This competition is for partnered couples. The music selected by our DJs will be of various tempos
but will be primarily be in the Country, Delta, and Piedmont Blues styles. You may dance any style of Blues, and
dancers will be judged on Blues Aesthetic, Musicality, and Creativity.
Solo Blues Cuttin' Contest
Sign up: no sign up, just show up at meeting.
Contestant meeting: 4:30pm Sunday.
Prelims: 4:45pm Sunday.
Finals: 9:30pm Sunday night dance.
This is a solo dance contest - no partner required. You may dance in any
style of Blues dance. The music selected by our DJs will span the range
of the Blues genres and tempos. Judges will select finalists from the
preliminary rounds based on Blues
Aesthetic, Musicality, Creativity
and Interaction, but the finals will be audience-judged.
Champions Division
Finals: 10:45pm Sunday night dance.
No sign up, no prelims, no contestant meeting. Invites are based on placement
in a national level Blues competition during the past year. We'll have
contestants from last year's bluesSHOUT!, Rhythmic Arts, Canadian Championships,
and others, including the winners in each division at this year's bluesSHOUT!
Champions will be competing Jack and Jill style to music with a range
of tempos and styles. Judges will be looking for the couple who shows
the most Creativity, Musicality, and Blues Aesthetic.
First Place winners will receive passes to next year's bluesSHOUT! and an invitation to
compete for cash prizes in this year's and next year's Champions division. Second and
Third Place winners will be awarded passes to one of the following events:
Mezz Jelly Blues Weekend (Waterloo, Canada - June 20-22, 2008)
Austin
Blues Party (Austin, TX - July 4-6, 2008)
Dirt Cheap Blues Exchange (Virginia Beach, CA - September 11-15, 2008)
Blues
Boot Camp (Dallas, TX - September 26-28, 2008)
Emerald City Blues Festival (Seattle, Washington - November 14-16,
2008)
Enter the Blues (Atlanta, GA - February 13-15, 2009 )
Steel City Blues (Pittsburgh, PA - March 13-15, 2009 )
Denver Blues Summit (Denver, CO - 2009 dates TBD)
Come Rain or Come Shine (Portland, OR - 2009 dates TBD)
Down Home Blues Dance Festival (San Francisco, CA - 2009 dates TBD)