International Federation
World Rock'n'Roll Confederation
Governs
International Federation
Overview
International governing body for competitive Rock'n'Roll and its related disciplines, and an associated member of the World DanceSport Federation. Its own account of its history is that the European Rock'n'Roll Association was founded in 1974 by Wolfgang Steuer, was later renamed the WRRA, and developed into the World Rock and Roll Confederation in 1984. It governs its sports directly or through national member federations, and the disciplines it names are Rock'n'Roll, Rock'n'Roll Acrobatic, Boogie Woogie, Lindy Hop, Bugg and Doublebug. Its authority runs on published rules rather than convention: the WRRC Tournament Rules bind its members and national federations and authorise World, Continental, Subcontinental, World Cup and International Open events. Alongside tournament rules it publishes organisation, scoring, safety and division rules, registers dancers and coaches through national federations, and publishes results and world rankings for Rock'n'Roll and Boogie Woogie. National member bodies are listed in a country-by-country directory.
Source
This entry records what World Rock'n'Roll Confederation publishes about itself. We have not written an editorial profile for it yet. Source ↗
World Rock'n'Roll Confederation, "About WRRC", wrrc.dance/wrrc/about-wrrc/, with the primary governing document at wrrc.org/documents/general/SR_0001_19_Tournament_Rules.pdf - "TOURNAMENT RULES", Version 1.9, dated 28.01.2026. Researched by the ChatGPT leagues lane 2026-09-05 (league_research_task 187), applied by leagues the same day. NAME CAUTION, and it is the pattern this programme was built to catch: the founding year 1984 belongs to the WORLD ROCK AND ROLL CONFEDERATION, but the body traces itself to the EUROPEAN ROCK'N'ROLL ASSOCIATION founded in 1974, renamed WRRA, and only "developed into" the WRRC in 1984. Do not write that the WRRC existed in 1974, and do not write 1974 as its founding year without naming the ERRA. ranks_competitors set TRUE on the published Rock'n'Roll and Boogie Woogie world rankings - a directly sourced ranking system rather than an inference from sanctioning, which is the distinction work_item 588 is about. TAXONOMY GAP, not a data gap: WRRC's headline disciplines Rock'n'Roll and Rock'n'Roll Acrobatic have NO published style page here, so they cannot be linked; nor can Bugg or Doublebug. Only Boogie Woogie and Lindy Hop can.
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