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| Our Judging staff has professional performance, teaching, and competition experience that spans 4 decades in the dance industry! This is not adding their experience years it is ACTUAL experience years! Please Note that even though we offer an adjudicated system we are still a competition. Each routine will directly compete against the same age/style/ability division and a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place award will be given in each (ie: solo-tap-intermediate-age 9-10-competitive dancers will compete against each other and the top 3 placements will be awarded along with the medal point standing award. We award the medal standings first then announce the top 3 performers. We also have overall high score standings for the Jr. Division and Sr. Division collectively. Criteria for adjudication is as follows: Technique ~ 50 points (further broken down into feet, hands, upper body carriage, transitions, and flexibility each at 10 point value) Entertainment Value ~ 20 points Choreography ~ 20 points Costume/Overall Appearance ~ 10 points Total points possible per judge: 100 Medal Standings Platinum ~ 291 to 300 Gold ~ 270 to 290 Silver ~ 240 to 269 Bronze ~ 210 to 239 Honorable Mention ~ 209 and below We base this on a school type grading system...When looking at a routine, certain elements will take away points, and certain elements will add points. It is better to have a technically clean, entertaining, choreographically rich routine than to have a routine jam packed with difficult elements that the dancer(s) have trouble executing well. Difficulty done well will give you added points, but it is a double edged sword; difficulty done poorly will cause a significant deduction of points. So as evaluating we ask ourselves is this an "A+", "A", "B", or "C" performance? Your dance is only evaluated against the point system. At our each event we add the point standings element and additionally award in each category/age/type division the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place standings, if there are more than 2 in the category/age/type. Each "Top Studio" winner will also receive an additional award. This award is determined by averaging the scores for each studio and the studio with the largest average will win their city's "Top Studio" award. |
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