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).

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.

This is an annual event running since 1962 and hosted by different UK member universities. Cambridge University have dominated the competition in recent years by winning both the A team match and the overall in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

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.