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Check In Only Teacher needs to check in to pick up Teacher ID.Students should not check in, but should be prepared to meet teacher at a prearranged spot.
Competition Stage is Approximately 40 x 60.
Dance Categories The following dance categories should contain no gym or acro tricks. Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical, & Modern. (lifts, leaps, and splits are permissible). No More than 3 tricks are allowed in Musical Theatre, Adagio, Ballroom and Hip Hop. The open category is for acro tricks or a mix of styles. Routines can not be reclassified on Show Day! If routine is in the wrong category, it may be eliminated from high point.
Deadline Please make sure your entry is in 30 days ahead of time. We need this time to order & receive all awards in time. There may be room after the deadline, but you may be charged a late fee.
Discount all Studio Directors are entitled to multiple discounts.
10% if paying by bank check/ money order / cash.
Also 10% if payment is received prior to the season Jan. 1.
Judges Critiques are available (only to teacher) online.
Music must be good quality, pre-recorded at appropriate volume level & pitch, completely edited, with a max 5 second lead. Good Quality CD's are preferred. Please bring a back up of all music on IPOD or MP3 player.
Please wait until 2 days prior to the show before you label your music with your performance number.
Note: Performers may not recompete. Once a performer begins dancing, they must continue & finish their routine. No matter what-our fault, your fault, no fault, recompeting is NOT ALLOWED. Please instruct /train students to continue to perform in case their music fails.
Overnight Accommodations Discount Hotel Rooms are available. Reserve early under the Step Up 2 Dance group name for best rates.
Payment Information You may pay by bank check or by Pay Pal. If your Bank Check/Money Order is received d 30 days prior to show, you are eligible for an addition 10% off your total entry fee. Mail to Step Up 2 Dance, P.O. Box 474, Boston, MA 02174
Props only non-dangerous props are allowed to be set-up within a 30 second time frame.
Schedule Studio Schedule and Program Schedule is on the web 24/7 for review and printing for Studio Directors only.
Every effort will be made to accommodate your needs, however, requests may not be honored if it causes hardship to staff ,judges or other competitors. If you have a special request, please email in your request and then on Show day please see the Stage Manager to tell her your needs.
Time Limits:
Solos, Duos/Trios . . . . . . .3 minutes
Groups, Lines, Classes . . . .3 1/2 minutes
Mini Production . . . . . . .6 minutes
Production . . . . . . . . . .8 minutes
If overtime, you must enter it as extended time.
Please take care to select costumes, music , routine for general audience appeal. Inappropriate choreographry or costumes too revealing may have deductions per discretion of the judges. Our audience is made up of parents and impressionable young students.
Please take care to place the routine in the correct category.
A studio may enter the same students in the same category, same age, hence, 2 open routines, same performers.
Acro controlled moves that involve balance & flexibility., such as walkovers, chest rolls, handstands. Can contain flexibility moves or contortionist moves along with dance moves and choreography. Mats are allowed, but must be set up and dismantled fairly quickly.
Ballet execute ballet technique. Majority of dancers in ballet shoes.
Character portraying a character from a play, movie, show . etc such as a nun, doctor, thru any style of dance.
Cheerleading Acrobatics/Gymnastics is allowed. Can have stunts, tosses, pyramid. Routine must have and will be judged on dance steps, moves and choreography, can be Junior High, High School or College cheerleading team as well as dance school.
Clogging executing clogging technique including rhythmic formations and patterns.
Contemporary fluid, nebulous style of dance, establishling an emotional state w/ mind-body connection. Like modern, balance, floorwork, fall and recovery, and improvisation.
Ethnic/Folklorid style is of a particular ethnic group, such as Hawaiian, Polkas.
Gymnastics tricks, such as cartwheels, walkovers, back handsprings showing form. The routine should include dance technique, choreography and fluid movement. Mats are allowed, but must be set up and dismantled fairly quickly.
Jazz dancers execute free form movement ,and may wear jazz shoes, character shoes, half soles bare feet, executing controlled moves that involve balance & flexibility.
Hip Hop routine consisting primarily of Hip Hop Technique. (Inappropriate lyrics should be cut out or voiced over along with inappropriate gestures)
Lyrical interpretation of lyrics using combo of ballet or jazz, showing legwork, balance, body emotion.
Modern such as (Graham, Tharp). Dance can demonstrate balance, isolation, extension, based on space, force, weight and time, can be characterized to reflect the choreographers vision.
Musical Theatre dance Interpreting a song from a Movie, Musical or Broadway.
Open mix of 2 or more styles . Unlimited tricks are allowed.
Pointe execute pointe technique with the majority of dancers in pointe shoes.
Pom Pon a routine incorporating the use of Pom Pons, precise and definite movement. Acro allowed. Judges on both Pom Pon technique and dance steps, moves, and choreography.
Song & Dance demonstrate dance style and vocal ability.
No other lead voices on music. No Special microphones or sound equipment is to be hooked up performer or DJ. Limited to 2 cordless house microphones.
Tap executing tap technique in tap shoes.
Twirling may use batons or twirling props, showing technicue with choreographed dance moves. (no fire, knives or swords)
Any questions, please call or email show director.
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