The Region's Only Professional Ballroom Competition!
Dancers from across the country will compete in all forms and styles of ballroom dance, as they vie for top awards and cash prizes. ETDS also features a professionally produced dance show that stars world champion dancers and showcasing the best in professional dancing.
ETDS 2020
Arabian Nights
“Arabian Nights,” is a fantastical journey through ancient Arabia. It tells a mystical tale of a magic lamp passing from one person to another. Through the eyes of those who discover it, we learn what happens when a person’s greatest desires come true. Starring World Champion dancer Eric Luna and Three-time, Triple Crown, American Ballroom Champions, Sam Gordon and Tamsyn DeVilliers, “Arabian Nights” is sure to delight and entertain.
The Park Vista
Host Hotel
The Park Vista hotel is a newly renovated DoubleTree brand hotel in Gatlinburg, TN featuring 300 accommodating guestrooms and suites. At The Park Vista, it is our nature to provide spacious guestrooms, each with a private balcony and stunning views of the Great Smoky Mountains. You will fall in love with the sunrise, city lights and the mysterious “Blue Smoke” indigenous to our mountains
Take a stroll through the beautifully landscaped gardens surrounding the hotel while enjoying the serenity of a Smoky Mountain sunset, with the Gatlinburg city lights illuminating the Smoky Mountain valley below.