2020.11.15. Tahmina Hastáncverseny
Hungarian National Tahmina Belly Dance Competition Process of the competition: Application deadline: 31st October, 2020. Deadline of sending your video: 31st October, 2020. YouTube video upload manual: Application Form Scoring: Application: Group competition fee: Duo competition fee: Soloist competition fee: Supporting our association
24th in Solo, 25th in Group Categories
15th November, 2020
Ferencvárosi Művelődési Központ
Budapest 1096, Haller utca 27.
The competition needed to be re-organized due to this present pandemic situation. In order to keep the community experience, you have two options.
1. In person competition /10:00-18:00/
2. Online competition
Benefits of an online competition:
- You take as much videos of your performance at home as you want until it becomes satisfactory for you. (Below you can find the technical details of uploading and sending your videos, do not worry.) In case if you do not have enough space in your home, you may record your dance in your garden or anywhere outdoors, in nature, wherever you wish.
- The jury can give you a more detailed written evaluation since they have more time to take notes.
- You may enter older performances too that were produced among professional conditions (lights, sounds, stage). In this case, please mark the option “Professional video (with lights, quality sounds, stage)” on your application form. This category will be evaluated separately since these videos cannot be compared with home made videos.
- You may ask the members of the jury directly for their opinion in a private Facebook group.
- Those members of your family, friends who otherwise in case of a live competition would not be able to attend the event, will be able to channel into the competition.
- There is no geological burden of entering this competition, etc.
A “Troll category” was added to this present competition. All funny dance performances are welcome here that you record, that include fun ideas, but they may not include parodies of each other or of other dancers.
We also announce a “Bloopers” category outside the frames of this present competition. You may enter your spontaneous mistake videos. It is just for our pleasure and entertainment and these videos will not be evaluated.
Members of the jury
President: Anna Vitális, Jázmin - Sárfalvi Éva
Amira
Anett Kecskeméti
Barbara Ölyüs
Bernadett Nemesházi
Boglárka Gyenis
Celesztina Hahn
Dia Tannous
Eszter Rembeczki
Gyöngyi Stúber
Katalin Brebán
Lia Lebenszky
Mahasti
Mirjam Szőke
Mónika Palaga
Zsuzsó Sárközy
CATEGORIES
This year, as usual, we welcome all youngsters and elders, beginners, advanced and pro dancers, soloists and groups to share the joy of dance with us and to compete in the frames of a friendly and prestigious competition.
Solo and group categories:
Mini I.
Age under 7 (not older than the age of 6)
Mini II.
Age between 7-12 (not older than the age of 11)
Junior I.
Age between 12-15 (not older than the age of 14)
Junior II.
Age between 15-18 (not older than the age of 17)
ADULT
Age between 18-45 (not older than the age of 45)
If you may enter this category above the age of 45, you are allowed to do so.
DAME
Above the age of 45
You may enter here if you are above the age of 45 and you meet the criteria of the amateur category. Pros and teachers are obliged to compete in a separate category.
ADVANCED
Category of amateurs who have previous competition rankings.
PROFESSIONALS
Those competitors who were ranked more than 3 times at previous competitions, and who perform regularly, and who are instructors. There is no adjustment according to age in this category.
INSTRUCTOR
Who has a group, students and private students or passes on her knowledge in other forms and accepts money for it. There is no adjustment according to age in this category.
Troll category
All funny dance performances are welcome here that you record, that include fun ideas, but they may not include parodies of each other or of other dancers. If you miss out on this one, do not worry, you will have another chance for it in the next season.
AMATEUR ADULT GROUP category
NEITHER of the group members are professional dancers,
NEITHER of the group member perform on a regular basis for a fee,
The instructor of the group may not dance with the group on the competition!
The group has not been ranked at any well-known competition before!
DAME GROUP category - NEW!
NEITHER of the group members are professional dancers,
50% of the group members are above the age of 45, the group average is at least the age of 45, but neither of the members are below the age of 30,
NEITHER of the group member perform on a regular basis for a fee,
The instructor of the group may not dance with the group on the competition!
ADVANCED GROUP category
NEITHER of the group members are professional dancers,
NEITHER of the group member perform on a regular basis for a fee,
The group has been ranked at well-known competitions before!
PROFESSIONAL GROUP category
All groups who do not meet the criteria of the amateur and advanced category and who were ranked at previous competitions more than 3 times enter here!
The instructor of the group may compete with the group as well!
A category runs in the competition in case of 6 participating soloists or groups per category.
In case of insufficient number of participation, categories may get merged. This only happens with a previous notification, taking all the needs connected into account!
It happens often that we do not merge categories to serve your requests, so you may not be disadvantaged. Instead of rankings, we announce qualification in childrens’ and dames’ categories that you can take home!
Since this is a competition, not everyone can finish on the first, second or third places. I often get the request to give out your qualifications according to your scores. Below you can find a detailed explanation on the qualifications so you may easily be able to calculate it by yourselves.
Scores of qualifications in childrens’ and dames’ categories:
Gold: 90-100%, Silver:75-89%, Bronze: 60-74%
Scores of qualifications in amateur, advanced and professional categories:
Gold: 90-100%, Silver:80-89%, Bronze: 70-79%
There is one more category outside of the frames of the competition: The name is:
Bloopers
You may enter your spontaneous mistake videos. It is just for our pleasure and entertainment and these videos will not be evaluated.
1. Complete the application form and pay your entry fee by the 31st of October, 2020.
2. Send me your music, or Upload your video to YouTube by 31st of October, 2020. according to the instructions below (do not set your video’s visibility to “Private”).
The title of your video should be: “Tahmina Competition 15th November, 2020, name of the category (i.e. Instructor), your name (i.e. Jane Doe)”. (Please do not leave the upload of your video to the very last moment before the deadline!)
Music: max.4min.
3. (Online competition) I will add your video to an unlisted YouTube playlist created by me. All categories of this competition will have a separate unlisted YouTube playlist.
These playlists will be shared in a private Facebook group created by me for this competition. Competitors, the members of the jury and the audience can join this Facebook group.
Only the members of this Facebook group will be able to watch your video(s). Joining this Facebook group is only possible if you answer the confirmation questions.
Please notify your invited audience about this condition!
4. Evaluation. The jury will watch the videos and evaluate your videos in writing which are going to be forwarded to the competitors. The announcement of results is going to be on the 20th November, 2020, latest at 18:00 CET time. 2020.11.15. Tahmina Online verseny Private group · 2 members Join Group 2020.11.15. Tahmina Online versenyzők, és nézők csoportja
5. Audience Award. It's not neccessary.
After your application and after your video is on the category playlist, the hunt for the likes can begin!
Invite as many of your friends and family as you can to this private Facebook group and make them vote for you. The audience can vote in the private Facebook group, at poles set up according to the categories of the competition.
All participants will be presented in these poles. The video that gets the most votes will win the audience award.
It is essentially important to emphasise that whoever misuses the videos presented in the frames of this present competition, commits crime.
Sharing outside any kind of information or content presented in this private group without the permission of the president of the Tahmina Association (Ildikó Bacsa) is forbidden.
Please upload your video either unlisted or public, this is a condition to enter the competition. After the 25th of November you may set the video’s visibility to private if you wish. You will also find instructions on how to do that in the manual.
Thank you Gyöngyi Stúber for this effective help! She created an illustrated manual to ease your job of uploading your videos. Thanks Gyöngyi!
Complete the application form here.
Important!
- Your personal data entered to the application form are only handled by Ildikó Bacsa Tahmina and Tahmina Oriental SRA. Your data are only used to give you notifications regarding further events, to contact you and to forward the information on the prices offered by our sponsors.
- By applying to this present competition you consent to that images (photos, videos) recorded of you by you (or recorded of you by your representative) might appear publicly.
- Competitors bear full responsibility for any kind of injury that might occur during the preparation to this present competition. So please, do warm up, get ready properly.
- It is allowed to enter the competition with more choreographies, that can be done by paying the entry fee for all the competing choreographies!
Scores are given out openly to all of the competitors. There are no restrictions regarding the style or genre of the performances. It is important though that the movements, dance and costume should reflect the style you marked and chose.
By evaluating the performances, the jury takes the followings into consideration: APPEARANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY/IMPROVISATION, IMPLEMENTATION/TECHNIQUE, VARIETY OF MOVEMENTS, and mimique/artistic expression (contact with the audience). All these aspects will be scored with a maximum of 3 points.
So this is what they are looking at: hands, arms, leg positions, variety of movements, group harmony, which also refers to the costumes. Since you dance to the music that you chose, please pay attention to these criteria.
The jury, such as in previous years, will NOT score their own students or relatives!
Previously in email or on phone at Ildikó Bacsa. The application is valid when paying the entry fee.
HUF 2600.-/person/choreography (~EUR 7,5.-)
The competition fee after paying it cannot be refunded.
HUF 3500.-/person/choreography (~EUR 10.-)
The competition fee after paying it cannot be refunded.
HUF 3600.-/person/choreography (~EUR 10.-)
The competition fee after paying it cannot be refunded.
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All the members of the competition’s private Facebook group will be able to watch all the competing performances.
In person, in FMK: HUF 2.000,- (~EUR 6.-).
Online, We ask all of our audience to possibly support our association with a minimum sum of HUF 1000.- (~EUR 3.-).
Supporting is voluntary and up to you. Thank you for your support in advance!
Transfer data:
Name: Tahmina Oriental Szabadidősport Egyesület Dunatakarék bank
IBAN HU39 5860 0410 1124 3478 0000 0000
As soon as our sponsors provide us with information of their surprise prices, we will share the info here. Until then, thank you for your patience and we thank our sponsors for the prices and offerings :)
Every competitor will receive a present this year too. This is why it is important to complete the application form properly.
We are looking forward to meeting you online!
I am wishing everyone a pleasant competition!
For further information please contact:
Tahmina
tahminahastanc@gmail.com