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What was planned for 2021, but not yet feasible in 2022 due to the pandemic, will now become reality in 2023: with the 13 WDSF world ranking tournaments of the Berlin Dance Festival, international dance sport tournaments are returning to the arena of the Max-Schmeling-Halle.

From March 31st to April 2nd - one week before Easter - the two-decade tradition of WDSF tournaments will be continued at a new tournament venue. While the Blaues Band der Spree is still being organized by the two organizing clubs at Easter in the Siemensstadt sports center, the range of world ranking tournaments - from three (Seniors I Standard, World Open Standard and International Open Latin) - has now been expanded to thirteen tournaments.

This also includes the former, international tournaments of the Berlin Summer Dance Festival - i.e. Junior Standard and Latin as well as Youth Standard and Latin, that took place for two decades.

But WDSF standard tournaments for Senior II, Senior III and Senior IV are now also part of the tournament program for the Masters/Seniors. And starting this year, the Berlin Dance Festival is also fulfilling the long-standing wish for further WDSF Latin tournaments for Senior I, Senior II and Senior III in Germany.

Some tournaments are held in Hall C of the Max-Schmeling-Halle, but all dance athletes are under one roof. That makes this festival special. Spectators can switch between the two halls very quickly.

Furthermore the Berlin Dance Festival is holding two WDSF world championships:

On April, 1st (Saturday) the Arena of Max-Schmeling-Halle becomes the place where the WDSF Senior II 10 Dance world championship will be held and the next day, April 2nd (Sunday), the 2023 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Senior III Latin-title will be awarded to the best couple in this competition.

This brings the number of competitions to a total of 15 tournaments for dancers from around the globe.

Now on sale: bus shuttle services

19.03.2023 23:50 by Thorsten Süfke

At the Berlin Dance Festival's ticket shop there are two bus shuttle services available: intickz - Onlineshop a) between BER Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport and the official participants' hotel (City Hotel Berlin East - Landsberger Alle 203, 13055 Berlin), approx. 60-70 minutes per ride/direction b) between the official participants' hotel (City Hotel Berlin East - Landsberger Alle 203, 13055 Berlin) and the venue (Max-Schmeling-Halle), approx. 25 minutes per ride/direction The airport service runs between Thursday, March 30th and Monday, April 3rd. The venue service runs on all three competition days (March, 31st / April, 1st / April, 2nd) - each morning the first bus departs from the hotel to arrive at the venue when the doors open (approx. 90 minutes prior to the start of the first competition). On Sunday, April 2nd, there is a special nonstop service from the venue (Max-Schmeling-Halle) to BER Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport - departing from Max-Schmeling-Halle at approx 6:15pm and expected to arrive at the airport at 7:40pm. You receive an “early booking” discount of 10% when booking at least 4 days before the ride! How to book the bus shuttle services - see our manual

WC entries lists completed

18.03.2023 13:16 by Thorsten Süfke

As of March 16th, the entries for the two world championships are completed. And more couples than expected registered for both championships. To see the start lists The 2023 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Senior II Ten Dance (Saturday, April 1st) will see 48 couples. A third of them is representing Germany. 14 additional nations are represented - up to Japan and the US. This world championship will now start at 9:00am in the morning! The next day - April, 2nd - 80 couples from 18 nations will compete in the 2023 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Senior III Latin: Austria, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovac Republic, Spain, USA and Germany. For all other 13 WDSF world ranking competitions the registration will end on March 25th.

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Entries lists now online

12.03.2023 21:29 by Thorsten Süfke

As of March 10th, an overview on the entries lists is now available on this website For both world championships that will take place during the Berlin Dance Festival - 2023 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Senior II Ten Dance (Saturday, April 1st) and 2023 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Senior III Latin (Sunday, April 2nd) - 15 national dancesport federations of these countries have already nominated their participants: Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, England, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. Deadline for entries to the world championships is March,15th. For the 13 additional WDSF world ranking competitions the registration closes on March, 25th.

Ticket-shop now open

26.02.2023 16:06 by Thorsten Süfke

Online ticket-sales for the Berlin Dance Festival have started. Starting from 25 euros (plus 1 euro service-fee) friends of dancesport can become part of Berlins new dance festival hosting 13 WDSF world ranking competitions and two world championships. Each ticket offers the free choice of any seat at the Max-Schmeling-Arena and to see all competitions in hall C. So everyone can join a full day of dancesport at its highest level. There will be no ticket sales at the venue. All tickets must be purchased online. Payments are possible thru apple-pay, google-pay, creditcards (Visa, Mastercard, AmEx) as well as SEPA direct-debit and direct-pay via "Sofortüberweisung". Tickets can be purchased in our ticket shop. In this online-shop we charge a service-fee of 1 euro per ticket.