Ballroom Beach Bash Dance Competition
Due to this difficult time (COVID-19) a lot of competitions was canceled. Finally … It was great pleasure to hear that Ballroom Beach Bash is running this year.
Ok lets go, it was the most difficult competition i ever pack for… When i receive contract, i started to read all requirements and notice something about dress code?!?!?! It says All day sessions is resort casual and please no ties. We will still respect you! Friday Night was half Beach wear and half Formal :) and only Saturday Evening was Formal. As you can imagine, Professional Ballroom Dancer is always on the road non-stop, our closet are full of formal, teaching, practicing and competitive wear, vacations is ones a year or less. There for Beach Wear ???????? Where ????? After looking in my closet i realized that finding what to wear will be so difficult :)
I would love to say Big Thank you for inviting me to judge Ballroom Beach Bash 2021!
Organizers of Beach Bash is Tony Redpath, Michael Mead and Jonathan Roberts.
Hotel : Hilton Hotel Costa Mesa/Orange County • Costa Mesa, CA
Normally Ballroom Beach Bash is in San Diego, California but this year it was moved due to Covid 19 restrictions.
Dance Judges
Hotel it self were nice and had bunch of restaurants out side surrounding arias. Inside for breakfast main restaurant was open and Starbucks coffee shop. Lunch and dinner, Lobby dinning only with limited space available. Menu was not so great, but we all understood due to restrictions.
How Fun Competitions is
Ballroom was wow! From Decorations to the Staff Dressed! It really felt like you somewhere on the vacation. Atmosphere was fabulous! The dancers was dress appropriate to the competition attire and the rest of audience, judges, staff and even organizers were dress in Resort like clothing. The feeling was so relaxed and casual. Making so welcoming for everybody. Jonathan told me once, we want to make competition less official to attract every level of Dancers! And so they’ve done it !
So much Dancers, from beginners to advance love to come to Ballroom Beach Bash because it's fun and entertaining.
Its not a regular competition you have attended, its fun entertaining and have so many dancers from beginners to advance to give you that competitive edge!
I would highly recommended to every dancer to go there at least once, to see it for yourself. Especially if you just started to dance and have never competed (must be one of the first ones)
Friday Night Dress Code
Saturday night Open Professional Dancers took the stage. It have bean so long with out competitions that the atmosphere was sky rocketing by audience! So many people just come to watch. Screams, claps and calling numbers of favorite couples filled the ballroom!
Amazing job Organizers !!!
Competition: 5+ Stars
Organization: 5 Stars
Dinning: 3 Stars (due to restrictions)
Hotel: 4 Stars