ProLine Social 

Groups and teams

Team’s structure
    Professional – Teacher and 8 to 12 or more dancers.

Age requirements
    Open – any age
    Junior – everyone less than 18 years old
    Diamond – everyone more than 40 years old

Participants
    Every team must have its name and during the competition that team can dance only once in the same category and only with the same name. A team that is competing in several categories must prepare different performances with different music and chorography.
    Any member of the group can dance in any other dance category or in other group.

Main dancing rules
    The team and the teacher choose the first dance for demonstration – general look. The team has to present 3 Social dances, which will be performed in the following tours. The teacher always dances together with the team, but is not evaluated by the judges. It is compulsory to do all the steps as they described, variations of the steps are not allowed. Synchronous dancing of all the team is not required.
    I tour – teams perform on the dance floor one after another.
    The teams dance the dance of their own choosing; the judges pick only 5 participants from all the dancers of the team.
    II tour – Two teams compete on the dance floor, each is composed of 5 dancers and a teacher. They dance one of the Social dances, which they pick by drawing lots. The judges choose one team from the two.
    III tour – Final. Two teams against each other. The teams dance another Social dance, which is also picked by drawing lots.

Restricted movements
    No dancing steps during the introduction
    Minimal hand movement during the dance

Music
    Only original music is allowed for usage
    The length of the dance is 2 minutes
    The entry of the social dance is included
    The music for general look must be given to the sound operator 1 hour prior to the competition. The name of the team and the competition group must be written on the CD.

Clothes
a.    The team must have their dancing costumes
b.    Foot – wear must be made for dancing
c.    The advertisement on the dancing costumes is forbidden. The t-shirts with the name of the club are allowed.  
d.    Sparkling accessories and materials are allowed
e.    No theatrical properties like masks or swords are allowed as well as the theatrical make up.