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COMPETITION DANCE
COMPETITION TEAMS ATTENDANCE
Both Weekly Team Trainings & All Competitions are mandatory.
Students & their families are expected to make every effort to attend.
Please look carefully at competition schedules and take into consideration travel/fees associated with each team.
Appointments, being tired, family/friend's birthdays, dinners etc. are not good enough excuses to be absent from your team trainings.
lease schedule events for after or before classes, or on another night.
Students with injuries or minor illness must still attend class to watch the training. This is to ensure students don’t fall behind their team/s learning any new choreography, changes, spacing and/or corrections as our Competitive Teams work through a lot each lesson.
Please refer to Injury/Illness Procedure below for more info (as also stated in our Info Booklet).
Please note Upstage must be notified when a student will be absent prior to class commencing. Please call 9786-6555 or email. If planning a family holiday please check our training and competition schedule.
Competitive Dance Solo/Duo/Trios
Please let our staff know if you are interested & would like to be considered!
Upstage will offer Competitive Solos, Duos and/or Trios upon invitation only for students who are ready to take these on.
Students will have weekly private sessions to learn/clean routines and prepare for competitions.
You may choose to only learn a solo, duo, trio and not compete if you wish also.
It is imperative students are 100% ready. They must excel in overall flexibility, stamina, fitness, technique, performance and confidence in the respective genre.
It is completely up to you how many competitions you wish to enter.
Upstage will help manage all entries with you and be there for any queries you may have in relation to competing.
Students must be enrolled in the same genre competitive team as to the genre they wish to learn or compete in. This will ensure students are receiving enough training to ensure readiness for the competitive dance world!
Novice Dance
Novice is offered in Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical and Contemporary in all ages (Tiny aged teams are regarded as Novice).
Novice is open for beginner All Star Dance teams. may that be brand new teams or just beginner teams within an established program; a gentle way of easing new coaches and beginner athletes into our sport and understanding how it all works. The idea of Novice Dance is for athletes to perfect the very basic dance skills on the competition floor before attempting harder skills. We encourage only “dance” related skills in this category, focusing on the appropriate style of Dance as well as the associated basic skills required for the style of Dance.
Novice Dance teams will not have points deducted (unless extreme circumstance of putting athletes at risk of injury or unfixed warned skills from prior Championships); they will have warnings so as to initiate them into the rules of our sport. Nevertheless, any teams seen to be intentionally breaking the Novice RULES will be deducted with full legality points for each illegal skill sets performed. The teams in the NOVICE Dance sections will not be included in any Highest Scoring or Grand Champion awards. Novice also pays a slightly cheaper entry fee.
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