The CM Dance Intercollegiate Swing Battle is a community event that invites college students from all over the western United States to gather and compete using all original team Lindy Hop choreographies. This event celebrates team creativity and love for this joyous dance through competition and social dancing. Competitors range from dancers that started last semester, to those with years of experience. We offer a team competition (our main event!), individual competitions, dance lessons from world-class instructors, and social dances with live music.

Registration

Registration is OPEN!!

Tickets available at the door! Cash and card accepted.

Please read before registering

BY REGISTERING FOR THE EVENT YOU AGREE TO CMDANCE’S TERMS

News and Updates

• Announcing instructors and class descriptions soon!

REGULAR PRICING

GOLD Pass:

(Team Competitors - ALL ACCESS): $65/ea

TEAM REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE MONDAY MARCH 30TH 2020
(This gives us time to do our best with any special arrangements teams may need. If your team will need to signup after this date please get in contact with us as soon as possible and we can discuss)

• Included in the GOLD pass:

  • Entry (with your team) into the Swing Battle Team Competition

  • All Dances

  • All Classes

  • Complimentary entry into all individual competitions except the Solo-Charleston

(This year we have rolled the team competition fee into the individual ticket prices. This means that the per-person cost to compete will be the same regardless of team size.)

SILVER Pass:

Dances and Classes: $85

• Included in the SILVER pass:

  • All Dances

  • All Classes

  • Individual Competitions not included

BRONZE Pass:

All Dances: $40

• Included in the BRONZE pass:

  • All Dances

  • Individual Competitions not included

Additional Options:

Friday Dance Pass: $15

• DJ’d Music

• Dancing

Saturday Dance Pass (Live Music): $30

• Live Music

• Dancing

• Team Competition (Spectate)

Individual Competitions: $5/ea

• Open Mix & Match Social Dancing Competition

• Strictly Lindy Hop Paired Social Dance Competition

• Solo-Charleston Dance Off

Community Support:

High School Invitational (Weekend Dances): $20

• Discounted BRONZE pass for students who show their current high school ID

Team Competition Spectator Pass (For family and friends): $10

• Show your support!

• Spectate the Team Competition and Awards ceremony

• Live music while you wait for the results!

Instructors

TBD

We’re carefully selecting our awesome instructors to give you the best experience while you’re here. Not to worry, we’ll let you know soon, Stay Tuned!

Music

Music is the heart of the dance. We’re excited about the musicians and DJ’s coming your way but we’re not ready to tell you about them just yet. Keep your ears open, we’ll loft some notes your way soon!

Schedule

Summarized Schedule

A more detailed schedule will be made available here shortly

Friday

• Registration Opens: 5:30 PM

• Beginner Dance Lesson: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

• Dancing to DJ’d Music: 7:00 PM - 1:00 AM

• Mix & Match Competition: 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM

• Strictly Competition: 11:00 PM - 11:30 PM

• Evening Close: 1:00 AM

Saturday

• Classes: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (1.5 hr lunch break)

• Dancing to Live Music 7:30 PM - 2:00 AM

• Team Competition: 9:00 PM - 9:45 PM

• Solo Competition: 12:00 AM - 12:30 AM

• Event Close: 2:00 AM (Sunday)

Venues

The Omni Ballroom

5366 S Bannock St Littleton CO 80120

Parking: Street parking is available on Bannock and across the street at the Littleton Preparatory Charter School

Travel

Flying Into Denver

The nearest major airport to Denver is the Denver International Airport (DIA). You can find deals at respective discount airfare sites or directly from your preferred airline. We suggest checking fares often and signing up for low fare alert services. Research shows that the ideal time to buy your airline tickets is generally about 54 days before travel. After 54 days, prices begin to rise and then shoot up 30 days before the flight. Remember to check out package discounts for hotels and car rentals, if you wish. Here are some sites you can use to find deals and set up price alerts:

www.southwest.com – www.farecast.com – www.orbitz.com –www.kayak.com – www.priceline.com – www.hotwire.com –www.travelocity.com

Driving Into Denver

The best way to Denver by car is using either I-70 to approach from the East or West or I-25 to approach from the North or South.

To get to Englewood/Littleton and the Omni Ballroom (best routes will vary depending on time of day):

• From the North

• From the East

• From the South

• From the West

Getting Around Denver

Rideshare programs like Uber or Lyft are highly active in Denver. We also have Car2GO, a convenient smart-car rental service providing over 400 2-person cars spread throughout Denver; just take it, drive it, and park it, within the designated city area (membership required).

RTD Buses – For public transportation, our RTD buses and light rail system are an effective and inexpensive method of getting around Denver. Check out the RTD website for a helpful Trip Planner and more details on Denver public transit.

• Best Routes to the Omni Ballroom

  • C/D Light Rail Lines to Oxford Station or Littleton Station (We recommend arranging for pickup from the station)

  • 0/0L Broadway Bus Service to Centennial Ave. or Rafferty Gardens Ave.

Bird Scooters are an efficient/affordable option to get around downtown. App download required.
Lime Scooters are another app based scooter option to get around downtown. App download required.

Getting to Downtown Denver from DIA

The A Line will get you from the DIA airport to Union Station (1.5 miles from the Studio Loft/Curtis Hotel) for only $10.50 in approx 40 minutes. This is by far the most affordable and efficient way to get downtown from the airport. The last train to leave DIA departs at 1:26 am. Trains departing Union Station starting as early as 3:15 am.

The A Line connects to the C/D lines at Union Station for easy connections to the Englewood/Littleton area

Volunteers

Teamwork makes the dream work!

Volunteers are the face of the event, as each of you are often the first human anyone interacts with and comes to with emergencies. We value our volunteers and seriously cannot function without you. Help us make this a successful event, and get to know your organizers and artists a little better. You will be able to sign-up after reading the following!

Volunteers can assist with this event to help offset the purchase price of your individual pass. Each hour you assist is equivalent to $10 off of your purchase price. Time slots are limited so this option is first come first serve.* Please fill out the following if you would like to volunteer: Volunteer Registration
(*If the price of attending is financially challenging please let us know, we will prioritize your registration for volunteer hours.)

Important Notes Related to Volunteering:

• PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER/BUY A PASS, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER IN EXCHANGE FOR A PASS! If you just want to help out because we are a community, that’s cool too.

• As you have not pre-registered, you must provide a check as a deposit for the full amount at the beginning of the weekend. This deposit is in good faith that you will show up for all your shifts, and communicate with all the appropriate personnel if you swap a shift.

• The check will be destroyed when all your commitments are fulfilled, or if you do not show up for your shifts then you choose to have CMDance cash your check in exchange for your pass. You may write a new check or paypal CMDance the difference in the case you miss/are late.

• In the case that you do not have checks because you think they are outdated, then we may be able to set-up a case by case alternative to the check from of a deposit.

• Volunteers will have the choice to work part-time for a dance pass (or half off their all-access pass), or you can volunteer full-time for their pass.

• CMDance will not refund any dollar amount above what you paid for your event pass, in the instance you have already purchased your pass.

• Volunteers will be offered to pick their shifts in the first stages of volunteer sign-up, but it will be locked for editing as we get closer to the event.

• Volunteers who are no shows for shifts will not be allowed to volunteer for CM Dance events in the future. (This would suck, please don’t make us use this)

• We will accept your volunteer support and helping hands at any time, even when you are not scheduled, of course!

• Volunteers are really cool and make this event amazing! Thank you.

If you have any questions about volunteering for this event, please e-mail our Volunteer Coordinator, Benjamin Collins: COLLINS.BENJAMINJ@GMAIL.COM

Housing

Visiting and want to request to be housed with locals?

Local and wanting to show some awesome hospitality?

Fill out our HOUSING FORM!

For your request for housing to be valid you must have either an All Music and Dance Pass or Full Access Pass for the event.

Disclaimer: HOUSING IS NOT GUARANTEED!!!!

For those hosting:

• You are only required to provide a place for guests to sleep and shower.

• You are not responsible for providing toiletries, transportation, food, or anything else.

For those requesting housing:

• Hosts are only responsible for providing a place for you to sleep and shower.

• You will need to contact your host to find out what you need to bring (sleeping bag, towels, etc)

• Please respect all rules provided by the host.

We will do our best to honor all requests to be housed with certain people.
We will honor all requests to be housed with or to host people of the same gender.

Deadline, Assignment, and Questions.

• Housing requests will close after March 13th

• Housing assignments will be sent out by March 20th.
  (Please remember, housing IS NOT guaranteed, we will do our best to notify you either way but if you haven’t heard from us please feel free to reach out!)

• All housing questions should be directed to our Housing Coordinator, Benjamin Collins: COLLINS.BENJAMINJ@GMAIL.COM

• All Dates Subject to Change