OTB Street Dance Competition November 2025 – QEH, Oldham

Date

22 Nov 2025

Location

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham
The Queen Elizabeth Hall, West Street, Oldham

Cost

£21.00

Time

All Day

Welcome to the Competition Info Page for OTB – Sunday 22nd November at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham

Here, you’ll find all the information you need to plan your time with us. Use the tabs at the bottom of this page to navigate through different sections of information for this event. Please note that final event details are typically posted one week before the event, once entries have been processed.

This is one of our main events and is open to dancers of all levels.

Entry Limits:
Each dancer may enter up to 4 events:

  • 2 solos (either 1 set routine + 1 freestyle OR 2 set routines)
  • 1 duo
  • 1 team

3:00pm – Doors Open

3:30pm – All ages team events
Awards will be presented once all teams have danced
We will confirm the number of team sections here by Thursday 19th November once we have cross checked entries with all music

4:30pm – All ages set routines
Awards will be presented immediately after each final

6:30pm – All ages freestyle events (advanced to dance first)
Awards will be presented immediately after each final

7:40pm – Elite Allstars

7:50pm – All ages duo events
Awards will be presented immediately after each final

8:30pm – Approximate finish time

Please refer to the link here for the initial programme for this event. Note that the final age categories for solo events are below. The duo age categories will be same as the initial programme.

DANCE 1 BEAUTY AND A BEAT
4 YEARS & UNDER
5 & 6 YEARS
6 YEARS ADD NEEDS 
7 & 8 YEARS
9-11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
PARENTS

DANCE 2 FINESSE
10 YEARS & UNDER
11 & 12 YEARS
13 YEARS & OVER
13 YEARS ADD NEEDS 
PARENTS

DANCE 3 SHOW ME THE MONEY
10 YEARS & UNDER
11 & 12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER

DANCE 4 KILLA
8 YEARS & UNDER
9 & 10 YEARS
10 YEARS ADD NEEDS
11 & 12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

DANCE 5 PLAYGROUND
13 YEARS & OVER

DANCE 6 DENIAL IS A RIVER
10 YEARS & UNDER
11 & 12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER

DANCE 7 ALRIGHT
14 YEARS & UNDER
15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER

CLASS MEMBER FS
4 YEARS & UNDER
5 & 6 YEARS
7 & 8 YEARS
9 & 10 YEARS
11-13 YEARS
14 YEARS & OVER

BEGINNER FS
4 YEARS & UNDER
6 & 7 YEARS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 YEARS
14 & 15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER

INTERMEDIATE FS
6 YEARS & UNDER
9-11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14 & 15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER

ADVANCED FS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14 & 15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER

PARENTS FS

Speakers

A Body of Persons Approval (BOPA) has been issued for this event by the local Council. Under BOPA conditions, the priority is to ensure the safety and well-being of all event participants, with particular attention to children up to school-leaving age. This should be considered a team effort between:
* Event Organisers
* Event Staff
* Licensed Chaperones
* Dance School Teachers/Leaders
* Parents/Guardians/Responsible Adults

It would be much appreciated if all attendees could take note of the following information.

Photo/ Video Policy-
As this is a private event for event participants and their family/friends, our organisation would like to be able to permit the use of cameras to capture these special memories. We would however like to bring your attention to the following:

Solos & Duos- If you are intending to upload photos/videos of your participant to social media, it is recommended that you consider your privacy settings so that you limit your audience to close friends & family. Our team may also take videos and photos to use on OTB social media pages. If anyone does have any concerns/objections to this or would like us to make adjustments for any particular event, please speak to your dance school lead who will communicate this with our events team.

Team events- One nominated person from the dance school performing their team routine may video the routine from the front. It is strictly prohibited for anyone else in the venue to take a video recording. It is then at the teachers discretion where that recording gets shared. This is so that the teacher can decide who has access to their choreography and also for safeguarding reasons which are considered different to a solos/duos type event. Still photographs are permitted but please consider the points highlighted in the solos/pairs sections above.

Child Supervision & Sign in/ Sign Out Procedure-Participants up to school-leaving age are supervised by a responsible adult at all times. Participants of this age will not be permitted to pass our door/security team without a responsible adult accompanying them. On arrival and departure, event participants are asked to inform their teacher/group lead so that they can record attendance times at the event.

Safeguarding info- Our safeguarding policy can be found here

The Designated Safeguarding Lead for OTB is Jessica Porter, who will be in attendance for the duration of the event and will be based on the stage. Alternatively, you can email info@onthebeat.dance

Please see the venue page for information on travel, parking, changing facilities, emergency procedures and first aid.

Merchandise– Our merchandise stall will be available in the Arena. Payments by cash & card are accepted.

Please have your wristbands on and fastened securely before entering the building. Lost, damaged or forgotten wristbands will not be replaced and will have to be re-purchased.
Please see our full wristband policy here.

There will be a limited number of wristbands available on the door – priority access will be given to those who have a wristband in advance.
Please note that bands are only available to people attending with a dance school and are not on sale to the general public.
Payments by cash & card are accepted.

Wristbands are available to purchase on the door at £24

Allocated Seating- All seating will be reserved clearly with your dance school name.

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