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All Nations Competition May 2025- Accrington Town Hall

18 May, 2025

Welcome to the Event Competition Page for All Nations- Sunday 18th May at Accrington Town Hall

Here, you’ll find all the information you need to plan your time with us. Use the tabs at the bottom of this page to navigate through different sections of information for this event.

Dancers can enter a maximum of 5 solo events or 6 events if entering pairs. This can be a combination of

A maximum of 2 latin solo events
A maximum of 2 ballroom solo events
A maximum of 2 classical events
A maximum of 1 latin pairs event
A maximum of 1 ballroom pairs event
A maximum of 1 classical pairs event

Please see below the schedule for this event. You will notice the competition is split into 2 main sections (11 years & under/ 12 years & over) with pairs events in the centre of the day.

8am- Doors open (teachers access just before) 

8:30am – Section 1 Latin solo events (11 years & under)
awards presented immediately after each final

9:45am – Section 1 Ballroom solo events (11 years & under)
awards presented immediately after each final

11am – Section 1 Classical solo events (11 years & under)
awards presented immediately after each final

12pm – All ages Ballroom pairs events
awards presented immediately after each final

12:15pm – All ages Latin pairs events
awards presented immediately after each final

12:45pm – Section 2 Classical solo events (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

1:30pm – Section 2 Ballroom solo events (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

3:00pm – Section 3 Latin solo events (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

4:30pm – Approx finish time

Please see the finalised age categories below for both solos and pairs sections for this event.

LATIN DANCE 1 (SOMETHING THAT I WANT)
5 YEARS & UNDER
6 & 7 YEARS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 YEARS

LATIN DANCE 2 (SPINNING AROUND)
6 YEARS & UNDER
7 & 8 YEARS
9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
15 & 16 YEARS
70 YEARS & OVER

LATIN DANCE 3 (MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR)
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14-19 YEARS
27-39 YEARS
49 YEARS & OVER

LATIN DANCE 4 (DEJA VU)
9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15-19 YEARS
23-31 YEARS
37-49 YEARS
53 YEARS & OVER

LATIN DANCE 5 (RUN & TELL THAT)
9-11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14-16 YEARS
17-24 YEARS
25-33 YEARS
53 YEARS & OVER

LATIN DANCE 6 (MAKEBA)
11 YEARS
12-14 YEARS
15&16 YEARS
17-25 YEARS
44 YEARS & OVER

LATIN DANCE 7 (CHAINS)
12-14 YEARS
15-17 YEARS
72 YEARS

BALLROOM DANCE 1 (DOUBLE LIFE)
6 YEARS & UNDER
7 YEARS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS

BALLROOM DANCE 2 (JUNK)
5 YEARS & UNDER
6 & 7 YEARS
7 YEARS ADD NEEDS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
15 & 16 YEARS
39 YEARS
70 YEARS & OVER

BALLROOM DANCE 3 (UPTIGHT)
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13-15 YEARS
16-27 YEARS
31-49 YEARS
60 YEARS & OVER

BALLROOM DANCE 4 (SWEET DREAMS)
9 & 10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 YEARS
14-16 YEARS
17-28 YEARS
33-44 YEARS
50 YEARS & OVER
ADULT ADD NEEDS

BALLROOM DANCE 5 (THIS IS THE LIFE)
9-11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15-17 YEARS
18-28 YEARS
41-50 YEARS
61 YEARS & OVER

BALLROOM DANCE 6 (DIE WITH A SMILE)
11 YEARS
12-14 YEARS
15-18 YEARS
53 YEARS

CLASSICAL DANCE 1 (START WITHOUT YOU)
5 YEARS & UNDER
6 & 7 YEARS
7 YEARS ADD NEEDS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS

CLASSICAL DANCE 2 (FRIEND LIKE ME)
5 YEARS & UNDER
6-8 YEARS
9-11 YEARS
12 YEARS

CLASSICAL DANCE 3 (MAMA DO)
7 & 8 YEARS
9 & 10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12- 15 YEARS
28-41 YEARS
49 YEARS & OVER

CLASSICAL DANCE 4 (BREAK FREE)
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14 & 15 YEARS
18-24 YEARS
31-41 YEARS
49 YEARS & OVER

CLASSICAL DANCE 5 (OH CECILIA)
9 & 10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14-17 YEARS
18-28 YEARS
31-44 YEARS
50 YEARS & OVER

LATIN PAIRS DANCE 1 (S CLUB PARTY)
7 & UNDER
9 & UNDER
11 & UNDER
13 & UNDER
15 & UNDER
30 & OVER

LATIN PAIRS DANCE 2 (BOASTY)
11 & UNDER
13 & UNDER
15 & UNDER
29 & UNDER

BALLROOM PAIRS DANCE 1 (STOMP)
7 & UNDER
9 & UNDER
11 & UNDER
30 & OVER

BALLROOM PAIRS DANCE 2 (SHOW ME HOW YOU BURLESQUE)
11 & UNDER
15 & UNDER
30 & OVER

TBC

A Body of Persons Approval (BOPA) has been issued for this event by the local Council. Under BOPA conditions, the priority is to ensure the safety and well-being of all event participants, with particular attention to children up to school-leaving age. This should be considered a team effort between:
* Event Organisers
* Event Staff
* Licensed Chaperones
* Dance School Teachers/Leaders
* Parents/Guardians/Responsible Adults

It would be much appreciated if all attendees could take note of the following information.

Photo/ Video Policy-
As this is a private event for event participants and their family/friends, our organisation would like to be able to permit the use of cameras to capture these special memories. We would however like to bring your attention to the following:

If you are intending to upload photos/videos of your participant to social media, it is recommended that you consider your privacy settings so that you limit your audience to close friends & family. Our team may also take videos and photos to use on All Nations social media pages. If anyone does have any concerns/objections to this or would like us to make adjustments for any particular event, please speak to your dance school lead who will communicate this with our events team.

Child Supervision & Sign in/ Sign Out Procedure-Participants up to school-leaving age are supervised by a responsible adult at all times. Participants of this age will not be permitted to pass our door/security team without a responsible adult accompanying them. On arrival and departure, event participants are asked to inform their teacher/group lead so that they can record attendance times at the event.

Safeguarding info- Our safeguarding policy can be found here

The Designated Safeguarding Leads for All Nations are Jessica Porter & Jackie Sanderson, who will be in attendance for the duration of the event and will be based on the stage. Alternatively, you can contact us directly here

Directions & Car Parking

Accrington Town Hall Postcode– BB5 1LA

Parking- As the venue is in the town centre, there is lots of on street parking around the venue, most of which is free on Sundays. If you are joining us on a Saturday, all the streets vary so please check carefully before leaving your car. The tesco close by has free parking for up to 3 hours and the Arndale can park closes at 5pm.

Emergency Evacuation Procedure

In the event of a building evacuation venue staff will take the lead and give directions.

The fire assembly point is on the Broadway Strip outside shops like Poundland.

Venue staff will assist in the opening of all fire exits to ensure a safe exit. Please vacate the building as calmly and quickly as is safe to do so.

Do not attempt to re-enter the venue unless instructed by the on-site staff or the attending fire officers. No access will be permitted until the Duty Manager or the attending officers give full site safety clearance.

If you are a responsible adult accompanying an event participant and it is safe to do so, please try to locate your dance school lead person at the assembly point to let them know that you have safely evacuated the building.

Changing Facilities

Dancers are strictly not permitted to change in the ballroom or the corridors unless they are wearing a base layer (leotard, shorts, or crop top). If anyone needs to change during their time with us, both male and female changing rooms will be clearly signposted on the ground floor of the venue. Dancers of school age or younger must be accompanied by an adult or a chaperone while changing. Please ask a member of the OTB team if you are unsure where these are located.

It is strictly prohibited to take photos or videos in this area.

Changing in public areas is not permitted at our events and our staff will monitor this throughout the day.

First Aid

Should anyone require medical assistance at any time during their visit, please alert any of our staff or venue staff. There will be multiple first aiders available throughout the event.

Food & Drink Policy

The venue has a bar serving hot & cold drinks all day. Hot dogs, chips, pizza etc will be available and a tuck shop. Packed lunches are permitted to be brought inside the ballroom but can we kindly ask everyone to clear away any rubbish before they leave. Please don’t bring hot takeaway food or drink inside.

Wristbands are available to purchase in advance via your dance teacher only.

Please have your wristbands on and fastened securely before entering the building. Lost, damaged or forgotten wristbands will not be replaced and will have to be re-purchased. Please see our full wristband policy here

Wristbands will be available to purchase on the door however these are only available to people attending with a dance school and are not on sale to the general public. Door bands are priced at £24

Accrington Town Hall

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