OTB Street Dance Competition October 2025 – QEH, Oldham

Date

12 Oct 2025
Expired!

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 12th October 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. 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

8:00am – Doors open (teacher access first)

8:30am – Section 1 set routines (11 years & under)
awards presented immediately after each final

10:45am – Section 1 freestyle solos (11 years & under)
awards presented immediately after each final

11:45am – Section 1 duos (11 years & under) & parents solos
awards presented immediately after each final

1:00pm – Section 1 teams (11 years & under) & parents teams
awards presented after all teams have danced

5 years & under beginners (1 team entered)
7 years & under beginners (4 teams entered)
9 years & under beginners (3 teams entered)
11 years & under beginners (4 teams entered)
9 years & under intermediates (1 team entered)
11 years & under intermediates (1 team entered)
Parents (5 teams entered)

Break

2:15pm – Section 2 teams (12 years & over)
awards presented after all teams have danced

13 years & under beginners (2 teams entered)
16 years & over beginners (2 teams entered)
13 years & under intermediates (6 teams entered)
15 years & under intermediates (2 teams entered)
16 years & over intermediates (3 teams entered)
14 years & over advanced (1 team entered)

3:15pm – Section 2 set routines (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

5:00pm – Section 2 freestyle solos (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

5:45pm – Elite All Stars

6:00pm – Section 2 duos (12 years & over)
awards presented immediately after each final

6:30pm – Approx finish time

Please refer to the link here for the initial programme for this event which shows the age categories for duos. Please see all solo age categories below.

DANCE 1 (BEAUTY & A BEAT)
4 YEARS & UNDER
5 YEARS
6 YEARS
7 YEARS
8 & 9 YEARS
8 YEARS ADD NEEDS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

DANCE 2 (TILT YA HEAD BACK)
5 YEARS & UNDER
6 YEARS
7 & 8 YEARS
8 YEARS ADD NEEDS
9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS ADD NEEDS
11 YEARS
12-14 YEARS
15-18 YEARS
PARENTS

DANCE 3 (SHOW ME THE MONEY)
6 YEARS
7 YEARS
8 YEARS
9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

DANCE 4 (JUMP)
8 & 9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 YEARS
14 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS
ADULT ADD NEEDS

DANCE 5 (PON DE REPLAY)
8 & 9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 YEARS
14 YEARS
15 YEARS
16 & 17 YEARS
18 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

DANCE 6 (DENIAL IS A RIVER)
9 YEARS & UNDER
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14 YEARS
15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

DANCE 7 (4 MY PEOPLE)
9 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER
PARENTS

CLASS MEMBERS FS
4 YEARS & UNDER
5 & 6 YEARS
7 & 8 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 YEARS & OVER

BEGINNER FS
5 YEARS
6 YEARS
7 & 8 YEARS
9 YEARS
10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER

INTERMEDIATE FS
7 & 8 YEARS
9 & 10 YEARS
11 YEARS
12 YEARS
13 & 14 YEARS
15 YEARS & OVER

ADVANCED FS
8 & 9 YEARS
10 & 11 YEARS
12 & 13 YEARS
14 & 15 YEARS
16 YEARS & OVER

PARENTS FS

11 YEARS ADD NEEDS FS

ADULT ADD NEEDS 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 Leads for OTB is Jessica Porter & Hollie McFadden, they 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 purchased on the door are £24
Allocated Seating- All seating will be reserved clearly with your dance school name.

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