Duisburg Dance Days
The Duisburger TANZtage is an amateur festival that has been held in Duisburg , Germany since 1988 . It is the largest festival of its kind in Germany and offers amateurs of all dance styles and ages a forum to present their skills.
Participation in the festival is not subject to any tendering or application restrictions and no entry fees are charged. The DANCE days are held in spring (February / March) of each year. Within two weeks, up to 25 stage events take place, in which up to 500 dance groups with more than 5000 dancers take part, each dedicated to one dance branch.
In the "First Level" (preliminary decision), the participants have the opportunity to qualify for the final round on the stage of the Rheinhausen-Halle as part of a combined evaluation of the audience and expert jury . On the weekend of the final, the expert jury will determine the first places per dance style and age category without the help of the audience.
Overall winner of the Duisburg DANCE days
- 2007: Turkish Folk Dance Ensemble Baris 1981 (Cologne)
- 2008: Show dance group Accelerando (Erkrath)
- 2009: Thuringian Dance Ensemble (Thuringia)
- 2010: CreaTionZ (Bonn)
- 2011: Youth Ensemble Musical & Dance (Wuppertal)
- 2012: Rosa Martínez & Simi Swidersky (Cologne)
- 2013: "UNIsolo" AKZENTE (Aachen)
- 2014: Bharatna (Schwelm)
- 2015: Teens: Enassion (Cologne) | Adults: Akzente (Aachen)