The Cal Poly DanceSport Team is pleased to announce our eighteenth annual Mustang Ball DanceSport Competition, to be held on the weekend of February 7-8, 2026 on the Cal Poly Campus. Cal Poly is located in San Luis Obispo, which is ideally situated on California's beautiful central coast. Our central location makes this an attractive competition for both Northern and Southern California teams and individuals to attend and compete at a great venue.

Our competition is open to all amateur competitors and will feature Newcomer through Open levels in International Standard and Latin, and American Smooth and Rhythm. We will also have a wide variety of nightclub events, a formation team competition, performances, a team match, and other fun events throughout the day.

Updates:

• Our competition will feature a four dance showcase by Professional competitors Igor Colac and Roxane Milotti!
• If you are still looking for a hotel, we still have some deals available on our Hotels page.
• We are hosting a dance camp with workshops and private lessons with several of our professionals on the Sunday after the competition (Feb 8th)! See our Workshops & Private Lessons event for more information.
• Competitors: Please check the online heat lists to see what times you are competing and make sure your entries are complete and correct.

• Competition Rules and Information
• Final Heat Sheets with Times
• Tentative Schedule of Events
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Event Hotels

Online registration and payment is now open - Registration closes this Sunday at 8:00pm. Please sign up to compete before this deadline

• Mustang Ball Competition Registration
• EventBrite ticket purchase

Note: We are using new registration software this year. If you run into any issues, please email us at cpdancesport@gmail.com

• Inaugural Mustang Ball - February 10th, 2007
• 2nd Annual Mustang Ball - February 9th, 2008
• 3rd Annual Mustang Ball - April 4th, 2009
• 4th Annual Mustang Ball - February 5th, 2011
• 5th Annual Mustang Ball - February 4th, 2012
• 6th Annual Mustang Ball - February 9th, 2013
• 7th Annual Mustang Ball - February 8th, 2014
• 8th Annual Mustang Ball - February 28th, 2015
• 9th Annual Mustang Ball - February 20th, 2016
• 10th Annual Mustang Ball - February 11th, 2017
• 11th Annual Mustang Ball - February 3rd, 2018
• 12th Annual Mustang Ball - February 9th, 2019
• 13th Annual Mustang Ball - February 1st, 2020
• 14th Annual Mustang Ball - February 12th, 2022
• 15th Annual Mustang Ball - February 11th, 2023
• 16th Annual Mustang Ball - February 3rd, 2024
• 17th Annual Mustang Ball - February 1-2nd, 2025

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at cpdancesport@gmail.com