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2nd edition — PARIS 2026
Two titles. Three days. One floor that decides.
Until day one
What you are entering
The second edition of Europe Dancehall King & Queen runs from 30 October to 1 November 2026 at Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, on the southern edge of Paris. Three days of workshops taught by Jamaican and international masters, a cultural lecture, a games night, a Halloween party — and six battle categories, two of which hand over the EU DH-King and EU DH-Queen titles.
Europe Dancehall King & Queen is an international Dancehall event, powered by Jamaicans, held over three days in the Paris area. It is not only a competition: ten workshops, a lecture, a cultural talk, a games night and a Halloween party sit alongside the battles, and the same pass opens all of them.
Dancers come from across Europe and beyond. Some arrive with a crew behind them; some arrive alone with a plane ticket and a category. The floor makes no distinction between the two.
The masters teach across the three days, and each block is named for what it actually covers rather than for a level: Traditional Folk, Old Skool and Mid Skool female vocabulary, Skanking history, Bogle Dancehall history, Middle Skool, New Skool active vybz, body control, flamez, and advanced freestyle style.
That order is deliberate. The weekend opens on the founding vocabulary and works forward through the decades, so that a New Skool step learnt on the Sunday is learnt on top of the history that produced it.
Six categories are battled over the weekend. Two of them carry the titles.
Foundation. The bounce, first and last. Weight low and forward of the heel, knees unlocked, the pulse coming from the ankles and knees while the chest answers a fraction late. Judges read this before they read anything else.
Vocabulary, and its accuracy. Every step has an author. A step taken at the wrong tempo, carried in the wrong body, or stripped of its intention reads as borrowed rather than known.
Musicality. The selector is not background. You are answering one riddim, in one moment, and the room hears immediately whether you are riding it or running alongside it.
Presence. How you enter. How you answer an opponent. What you do when the round is not going your way.
Whoever takes EU DH-King or EU DH-Queen carries the name of the competition for a year — in the sessions they go to, in the classes they teach, in the way they talk about where their steps come from. A title in Dancehall has never been only a statement about ability. It is a statement about who is trusted to represent the culture in public.
You do not have to enter a battle. Entry to every battle is included in the pass, as is the party, and plenty of dancers come one year to watch and come back the next to compete. That is a reasonable way to do it — and often the better one.
Be honest with yourself about where you are. There is no invitation list and no qualifying circuit: you register, you pay, you compete. But the panel will not grade you on effort, and the crowd will not either. Come having worked, know the names of what you dance, and take the three days for what they are — the moment the work is looked at.
Titles at stake
Two titles, one panel, the same criteria. Each is awarded to a single dancer, and it is held for a year.
The men’s title, battled one-on-one on the closing day. Foundation, accuracy of vocabulary, musicality and presence carry equal weight: a living bounce and a step you can name will take you further here than a trick nobody asked for.
The women’s title. Same day, same panel, same floor. It is not a women’s version of the King. It is a title of its own, won and defended on the same terms.
Passes
Five ways in, from a single day to the full weekend with the hotel. Entry to every battle is free with all of them.
260 €
Group rate: 249 € per person from five registrations, 239 € from ten.
199 €
165 €
447 €
237 € event pass + 210 € hotel
Early-bird offer, limited to 40 people and close to sold out. Write to us before you count on it.
399 €
189 € event pass + 210 € hotel
Early-bird offer, limited and close to sold out. Ask us which six workshops before you book.
What the full pass opens. Whether you compete or watch, nothing on the programme is behind a second door.
Registration goes through HelloAsso. For a group rate, a pass with hotel or a payment plan, write to us first and we will send you the right link.
1dream1cultureparis@gmail.comRegister by emailThe venue
One room for the three days, on the southern edge of Paris.
Everything happens under one roof at 18 bis rue du 14 Juillet, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre: workshops, lecture, games night and battles share the same floor across the three days.
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre sits directly south of Paris, just outside the Périphérique, and is served by métro line 7 (station Le Kremlin-Bicêtre).
11 masters
Each master teaches the vocabulary they carry — named on the programme, not hidden behind a level.
7ven Kriptic
Skanking history
Great Global Bob
Bogle Dancehall history
Kimiko Versatile
Traditional Folk
Kim Weezy
Dancehall female — Old Skool & Mid Skool
Shorty Dancershine
New Skool sexiness, female body control
Cojo Hot Foot
Dancehall Middle Skool
Godzilla
Dancehall Middle Skool
Tev Immortal
New Skool active vybz
Inspire
New Skool sexiness & technique
Elliedon Footonflamez
New Skool flamez, gun & smooth move
876 UK
New Skool advanced style for freestyle
United Kingdom
6 categories
Six categories over two nights. Entry is free with a full pass.
1 vs 1 — 31 October 2026
Open solo category, battled on the Saturday night.
1 vs 1 — 31 October 2026
Solo category run with Millennium Bad Gyals.
2 vs 2 — 31 October 2026
Duos, on the Saturday night.
1 vs 1 — 1 November 2026
The men’s title, decided on the closing day.
1 vs 1 — 1 November 2026
The women’s title, decided on the closing day.
Crew — 1 November 2026
Crew choreography contest.
30 October – 1 November 2026
Three days, one floor. Workshops by day, battles by night, titles on the Sunday.
Day 01 — 30 October 2026
Doors open
Kimiko Versatile — Traditional Folk
11:15 – 12:30.
Kim Weezy — Dancehall female, Old Skool & Mid Skool
12:45 – 14:00.
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30.
7ven Kriptic — Skanking history
15:30 – 16:45.
Great Global Bob — Bogle Dancehall history
17:00 – 18:15.
Lecture & cultural talk
18:30 – 20:30.
Cultural games night
20:30 – 23:30. Play and win a gift.
Day 02 — 31 October 2026
Doors open
Shorty Dancershine — New Skool sexiness, female body control
11:15 – 12:30.
Cojo Hot Foot & Godzilla — Dancehall Middle Skool
12:45 – 14:00.
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30.
Tev Immortal — New Skool active vybz
15:35 – 16:50.
Battles
17:50 – 23:00. 1 vs 1 The Comet, 1 vs 1 Bag Gyal, 2 vs 2 Double Trouble.
Break — shower and change
23:00 – 01:00. Two hours to get out of your training clothes and into your costume before the party.
Halloween costume party
01:00 – 05:00. Professional photographer on site, 100 € for the best costume.
Day 03 — 1 November 2026
Doors open
Inspire — New Skool sexiness & technique
12:15 – 13:30.
Elliedon Footonflamez — New Skool flamez, gun & smooth move
13:45 – 15:00.
Lunch break
15:00 – 16:30.
876 UK — New Skool advanced style for freestyle
16:35 – 17:50.
Break — competitors prepare
17:50 – 18:50. The hour the finalists get to change and warm up before the titles.
Battles and titles
18:50 – 23:30. EU DH-King contest, Clash of the Titans crew choreo contest, EU DH-Queen contest.
Event
What people write to us about before they register.
Registration goes through HelloAsso. If the ticketing button is not live on this page yet, write to 1dream1cultureparis@gmail.com and we will send you the link. Group rates, passes with hotel and payment plans are handled by email, case by case.
18 bis rue du 14 Juillet, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. The town sits directly south of Paris, just outside the Périphérique, and is served by métro line 7 (station Le Kremlin-Bicêtre). Everything — workshops, lecture, games night, battles — happens on the same floor.
Only in the two passes that say so. The ten-workshop and six-workshop passes both bundle four nights at the Ibis 3-star hotel, Thursday to Monday, double bed and breakfast buffet, in the same hotel as the teaching staff. Both are early-bird offers and are close to sold out — ask before you plan around one. The regular passes cover the event alone; travel, accommodation and meals are yours to arrange.
Because they do not open the same number of workshops. Part of the programme is taught in women-only blocks — the Old Skool and Mid Skool female vocabulary, the female body control — as it is taught in Jamaica, where that repertoire is passed on between women. The 237 € pass opens all ten workshops; the 189 € one opens the six mixed workshops. The difference in price is a difference in what you attend, nothing else. If you are unsure which one covers what you came for, ask us before you book.
Yes. A one-day pass is 165 € and a two-day pass is 199 €, each covering the workshops of the days you choose and free entry to the battles held on them. The two-day pass also includes free entry into the 1 vs 1 The Comet category. The full pass at 260 € is the only one that opens all ten workshops and all three days.
No. Every pass includes free entry to all the battles as a spectator, and entry into a battle category is optional — it costs nothing extra with the full pass, but nobody has to take it. Plenty of dancers do the workshops, watch every round, and come back to compete the following year.
Six categories. On the Saturday night: 1 vs 1 The Comet, 1 vs 1 Bag Gyal and 2 vs 2 Double Trouble. On the Sunday: the EU DH-King contest, the EU DH-Queen contest, and Clash of the Titans, the crew choreography contest. Entry to all of them is free with a full pass.
There is no minimum on paper and no qualifying circuit: registration is open. But the honest answer is that the floor is unforgiving. You should be able to hold a bounce through a full tune without losing the downbeat, dance a set of steps on both sides without a mirror, and name the originator of what you are dancing. If that is not where you are yet, come for the workshops, watch every round, and enter next year. Nobody will think less of you for it.
Write to us as early as you can, at 1dream1cultureparis@gmail.com. The registration fee is not automatically refundable — an international event is committed to in advance, and a place held for you is a place someone else did not get. What we can do depends on how close to the event you cancel and on whether your place can be filled. The conditions attached to your ticket are shown on HelloAsso before you pay: read them, and ask us anything that is not clear.
Official poster
The visuals published by the organisers, in full.
2nd edition — 30 October – 1 November 2026
Places are limited. Registration closes when the room is full.
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