Platinum Competition 2020
10 am - 1 pm
In-House Student Choreographed Dance Competition
Congrats to all of our 2020 winners!
Welcome to our 4th annual In-House student dance competition! PLATINUM is for BDC members only who would like to self choreograph their own dance routines which will be judged by our own staff in a competition like setting. Dancers cannot ask a BDC staff member or any professional dance teacher to choreography their routine, this is a strictly self-choreographed only competition. Any dancer who didn't self-choreograph their own piece will not be eligible for any overalls or the chance to dance at the competition/magical moments. This event is open to any BDC dancer. For more information please see below for our list of rules & regulations.
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Divisions (for both Recreational & Competitive)
Mini: 6-8 years
Junior: 9-11 years
Intermediate: 12-14 years
Senior: 15+ years
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Styles:
Acrobatics: Any routine that shows a mix of acrobatic tricks, gymnastics, balances & tumbling. They also display use of balances, walkovers, aerials and any trick where hips go over the head.
Jazz: Any routine that contains jazz technique & style. (may contain up to 2 acro tricks)
Tap: A routine that displays tap technique & tap rhythms with no pre-recorded sounds. (No acro tricks allowed)
Ballet: Any routine that contains classical dance technique & movement with flow. Ballet slippers must be worn.
Open: Any routine that doesn't fit in other dance disciplines which combines two or more styles. No more than 5 Acro tricks allowed.
Musical Theatre: Any routine that is combined with lip singing & dancing.
Hip Hop: Any routine that is street-style based, which may include but not limited to: locking, popping, break dancing, krumping, street and freestyle.
Lyrical: A routine that combines both jazz & ballet skills that portrays a story to a piece of music.
Contemporary: A routine that has more of an emphasis on modern movements that combines jazz & ballet but is sharper movements than lyrical but with fewer trics and more movement.
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Fees:
Solo: $10.00
Duet: $8.00/each
Trio: $7.00/each
Group: $5.00/each
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Payment must be made in cash to the studio no later than December 13th, 2019
along with your entry form & a parent signature.
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Time Limits & Music:
- All routines must be a maximum of 2 minutes long. Any routine longer will have marks deducted.
- All music must be age appropriate with no foul/inappropriate language.
- All music must be handed in on an ipod/iphone/android or any devices like these. Please no CD's, if this is an issue, email your music to or hand your CD 2 weeks prior to the competition day so we can download it onto one of our devices.
- Please have all music edited before the competition date.
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Schedule:
A schedule of the competition day will be posted in the first week back in January, 2020.
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Rules:
- Be respectful of other competitors.
- Arrive at least 30 min prior to your scheduled performance time.
- If any injury comes up before the competition that does not allow the student to compete, we will refund your payment with proof of a doctors note.
- After you have danced, please stick around for the final awards at the end of the competition
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Hair/Make-Up & Costuming.
We would like to see all dancers entering this event to be in full make-up and hair and also have costumes as if it were any other competition. (eyelashes are not required)
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Critiquing:
- Our panel will be made up of 4 BDC judges. Those judges will each mark the routine out of 100 and then those 4 marks will be averaged out for a final score. All judges scores are final.
- Each adjudicator will be giving out feedback for each routine and then we will give those critiques to each dancer hand-written.
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Marks will be based on:
Choreography: /25
Overall Performance: /25
Emotion: /25
Costuming & Presentation /25
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84%-85.99%
86%-87.99%
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90%-92.99%
93%+
