A tremendous thank-you to all our donors for their support of our campaign: we couldn’t have done this without you! Thanks to you, we now have the necessary funding to host a collegiate ballroom competition at Northwestern this spring. You can learn more about our progress in planning the competition by following our Facebook page or by checking out our Catalyzer campaign page. Additionally, if you are around campus in the spring and hear word of the Northwestern Ballroom Classic, stop by to see what a collegiate ballroom competition looks like. Thanks again for all of your generous support!
We would like to extend a huge thank- you to everyone who has already donated. With your support, we have reached 25% of our goal!
On a competition day, this milestone would equate to finishing the American Smooth round, the first of the four categories of ballroom dance styles. Because we’ve met our 25% goal, we’ll be able to bring in a panel of professional judges to preside over the competition rounds and objectively select the best couple on the dance floor.
Please help us get even closer to our overall goal by spreading the word in person, via social media, or through email.
A donation of $10 provides funds for safety pins for pinning competitor number cards on the leads. Safety pins also come in handy for any unexpected costume emergencies!
Each couple competing is assigned a number at registration, and this number is how the judges identify couples on the dance floor. A donation of $20.18 provides funds for printing all the number cards we will need the day of the competition.
The top eight couples who place in each level for each style are awarded a ribbon. A donation of $50 provides funds for purchasing the placement ribbons.
A donation of $75 is equivalent to the average dancer registration fee. This will allow us to significantly decrease the cost of registration for competing dancers.
We need a lot of space for a competition, including a dance floor with seats for spectators, a practice floor, and rooms to put up the dancers in during the day. A donation of $100 provides funds for room rental fees so that we can have all this space the day of the competition.
A donation of $250 provides funds to compensate our emcee for the day. The emcee introduces the judging panel, calls out the rounds, and announces the winners during.
A donation of $500 provides funds to compensate the DJ and cover any potential technology costs. The DJ chooses all the songs for the rounds, and it is super important that we have the necessary technology such as speakers so that the dancers can hear the music they are dancing to.
A donation of $1,000 provides compensation for the panel of judges we will bring in to objectively select the winning couples.