Inter Varsity Dance Competition

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The Inter Varsity Dance Competition (IVDC) is an annual student dancesport competition organised by Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA).

This is an annual event running since 1962 and hosted by different UK member universities. When the competition started it was traditionally dominated by the Universities of the North but in recent years has been dominated by Oxford University.

The most important event of the competition is the team match, which pits teams of 32 dancers from each member university against each other. This competition has undergone a drastic overhaul in recent years and the team match is now a 2 division system that ranks all universities entered, instead of the traditional team match.

The 2005 winners were Bristol University Latin American & Ballroom Dancing Society. However Oxford still dominated in most areas.

Whilst Dancesport in the UK has seen a decline, that shows like Strictly Come Dancing have rectified, the Inter Varsity Dance Association (IVDA) has seen no such decline and struggles to find a UK venue large enough for its annual competition. At this time there is no student equivalent in other countries although the US has a strong student scene, and mainland Europe is building up its own competition scene.