Dance Competition Score Breakdown

DANCE COMPETITION ADJUDICATION BREAKDOWN

Dance Competitions are mostly determined by scores and the following adjudication breakdown will inform you what to aim for.

Each routine is a valuated according to the performance and skill criteria for the highest possible total score of 100 points.

                                                                               PERFORMANCE

1. Creativity - 10 points

Thinking outside the box really pays off here. Show moves people don't see in every other routine. Swift up surprise moves and maybe make the judges laugh. Most importantly,  have fun with your dance.

2. Formations and Levels - 10 points

Judges will be looking for good use of the stage and smooth formation changes. High, mid and low levels to compliment moves and give the routine some versatility. Soloists will only be judged on levels.

3. Conference - 10 points

Dancers are expected to be consistently strong throughout with an uninterrupted display of confidence which is usually measured by facial expressions,  eye contact and body movement.

4. Costume and Music - points

Costumes should be relevant to the dance. Music cuts should be clean and professional. No vulgarity will be tolerated.

5. Message / Entertainment Value - points

The dancers should connect with the audience through their message and evoke emotional responses like excitement,  laughter, sadness and so on.

                                                                                         SKILL

6. Musicality -10 points

The movement within the routine music demonstrate musical structure and style ( i.e. using rhythmic variations emphasizing upbeat, downbeat, tempo and accents in single, double, halftime am syncopated music patterns ) staying in time with the music, moving to the beat and us I identifiable phrases to construct the routine's choreography.

7. Cleanliness -10 points

All dancers move together. Routine should look clean and well practiced. Dancers should should commitment to moves without hesitation.

8. Spacing - 10 points

Groups will be judged on spacing between dancers, getting into new formations on time and using the stage. Soloists and smaller numbers will be judged on stage usage.

9. Difficulty - 10 points

Take risk. Dance risky. Consideration is given to dancers who attempt and successfully complete complex choreography.

10. Commitment to Style - 10 points

The dancers should show authenticity the dance style they're doing throughout the dance ( except there's an open category ).

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DANCE COMPETITION SPIRIT

Spirit  of Competition

The purpose of  a dance competition is not to compare and contrast between the dance participants. It's not an avenue to separate the superior dancers from the average or low dancers or to see who wins the trophy. Competitions push dancers to reach the top of their potentials. It is aimed at giving dancers higher level experience and with each experience learn to become a better dancer. So therefore, competitions are not necessarily a contest.

Although the highest scoring dancers are ranked according to their overall scores, the emphasy is that dancers are competing against themselves and not an opponent and thus,competitive dance is not so much about competing but rather it's an opportunity to receive valuable critiques from seasoned dance professionals. Its also an avenue to watch and learn from other dancers.

As a dancer, your major task in a danc competition is to compete with yourself and improve yourself. Its not about winning and if perchance you think it's about winning, then win your flaws and imperfection and you've won.

This is according to M9 Dance Academy Competition Principles.

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Dance Student's Dream

Every good dancer you see today was once a dance student with great dance dreams.
Accomplishing those dreams is the factor that keeps the dancer going forward and not turning back no matter the series of difficulties in training.
It's the assignment of the dance trainer to push that dancer to bring out the best in him to enable him or her become the desired dream.
If you're a dance student, please believe in your dance dream and obey your dance trainer. Your dreams are real and achievable.

Keep working hard.

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M9 DANCE COMPANY

M9 Dance Company is involved with providing
top quality services in

1. Dance Training

Through our prolific dance training department (M9 Dance Academy), we train passionate lovers of dance to improve on their dance skills and acquire special dance skills that can be harnessed to provide quality Dance performances.

2. Dance Performance

M9 Spotlight is the dance team of M9 Dance Company and for many years, M9 Spotlight has constantly maintain excellent performances in different categories of EVENTS and platforms across Nigeria. As before, M9 is still ditching out innovative performances to light up events and make the audience feel as though they are part of the performance and enjoying it all the way.

3. Costumy

M9 Dance Company also specialises in dance costumes production and supply. We make and supply different types of dance costumes. With the right sample, we can design even your choice costume.

4. Dance Concerts\Events planning and Organizing

We have great experience in planning and organizing Dance contents and other Dance Events. We can provide you with different options as it concerns quality, financial cost and extended details of whatever kind of dance event you want to organize. Also, we can secure a good venue, dance artists and hotel accommodation services (if required).

5. Dance Entrepreneurship Training

Dance entrepreneurship training is very vital in becoming a dance school owner and dance artists manager. M9 Dance Company have quality information about this.

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M9 Dance Academy

M9 Dance Academy

 M9 Dance Academy has constantly provided top class dancers in Nigeria since 2010. This dance fortress has gone through different developmental and innovative times to ensure it remains true to training and providing dancers of global relevance and significance.


On a constant base, M9 Dance Academy trains approximately two hundred students across the top different academic institutions in Bayelsa State. Providing top quality dance training to these schools really boost their extra curricular activities and lots of students get the perfect handy opportunity to fulfill their dance passion.

M9 Dance Academy teaches a thorough blend of ballet, acrobatics-gymnastics, lyrical and general contemporary dance styles. This blend exposes our students to different dance routines and prepare them for the global Spotlight if the opportunity comes knocking.

 Because of our love for the exclusive excellence we are propagating into the Nigeria dance community, we travel to different parts of Nigeria to coach young dancers whenever the need arises. With great delight and drive of fulfilling our vision, we are constantly on the path of spreading our influence and knowledge beyond our immediate location.

At M9 Dance Academy, our standard is high, to take any student that we train high and to cause a societal impact through dance.

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Dance Letter to parents

Dance Letter to Parents


It's sad to see most parents discourage their kids from exhibiting and maximizing their God given dance Talents. In case you fail to know or notice, talent is the most valuable asset in the world. All the human achievements you see are direct products of talent. And talent rules the world.

 Dance Talents usually pull the largest crowd in talent events all over the world and lots of kids have achieved societal and global relevance and significance through it

 The talent of a man has the inbuilt ability to shoot him or her to greatness. Greatness are in different fronts. If you child possess great dance ability, it means it requires just little encouragement for that child to achieve something great through dance.

But on a contrary note, many parents would compel their kids to pursue greatness or become something meaningful in areas that have no relationship with their talents, areas where these kids stand at disadvantage. Does that defines the child's best interest or a manual set up to eventually fail in life? Most adults who consistently fail in their work and investment is not because they are not brilliant. It's because they are working outside their natural strength, their God given talent and it could be anything. This becomes a big problem for families, society and government.

If you observe your child has a dance talent or any other, please encourage it. That's the solution to most of the world's problems. Don't say what you don't want your child to become. Encourage him or her to become something in the confines of their talent. If they obey you and become your dream or expectation, it's your life they're living, not theirs. So theirs is wasted. And their own kids lives too will be wasted-spent fulfilling their parents wish. This is the greatest problem of the world. But you can stop it. Just let your children excel in the area of their talent.

Let The Child Dance!
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Dance Dream_Keep It

CEO - M9 Dance Company
 Co-Principal choreographer
 Husband and father
 Entrepreneur

 , Eva Clif


Looking back to when I started my dance career, sometime 2009, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, professional dancing was completely in the dark. No dance school, and most  people termed someone who's crazy about dance a no-direcection person.

I usually beg to perform in events. From family to friends, many people discouraged me to stop dancing. Someone even said I can't buy a pair of shoes with dancing in Nigeria.

But i had a dream, even though nobody was convinced by it. Today all have seen for themselves that their negative predictions and conclusions were all wrong.
 God who knows the destiny of all humans won.

POINT

 Don't give room to anyone, no matter their age or position, to talk you out of your dreams. Some may say your dreams are too big and unrealistic. Well, that's why it's a dream. Don't change it and don't give up on it. Pursue it. There are some who will say your dreams are too small. Let them keep theirs, you keep yours.

Difficulties will come in you trying to achieve your dreams, same time those talkers will come and mock and advise you to quit your dreams and try something else.

You know what I did?
 I didn't quit.

Every dream has its own pain. After those painful times, comes the winning times.
 Wait till your winning times.







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Dance Characteristics pt4

Dance Characteristics Part Four
...dance development

 TENACIOUS
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The Eagle

 When other birds fly away from the storm with fear, an eagle spreads its mighty wings and uses the current to rise to greater heights.
 Don't settle for normal dance steps. Create and perform steps that most dancers would run away from or termed impossible. Such steps are meant to take you somewhere where only your kind can reach_greater heights.

Dance characteristics pt3

Dance Characteristics Part Three
...dance development

 CONFIDENCE
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The Eagle

 When the mother Eagle sees that time has come for it to teach the eaglets how to fly, she gathers an eaglet onto her back, and flies high.

Suddenly she swoops out from under the eaglet and allows it to fall. As it falls, it gradually learns what it's wings are for until the mother catches it once again. The process is often repeated.

If the young eagle is slow to learn or cowardly, she returns it to the nest, and begins to tear it apart, until there's nothing left for the eaglet to cling to.

Then she nudges it off the cliff. At this point, the eaglet has no option but to fly. This is how competitive dancers should be trained. If you are a dancer that aspire to be great, above your equals, apply this strategy. At M9 Dance School, this is almost becoming normal to all our students in Nigeria and it has uncountable advantages for dance school owners. Break the dancers until they meet your expectation, not theirs.





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Dance characteristics pt2

Dance characteristics Part Two
...dance development

 INTEGRITY

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The Eagle

An eagle never eats dead meat.
 It only eats the meat from the prey it kills itself.

Similarly, as a dance school owner or dance entrepreneur, don't induct a dancer trained somewhere else into your dance team. Create your own and use only your own.

That's the point.

Dance characteristics pt1

Dance Characteristics Part One
...dance development

STANDARD
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The Eagle.

Eagles can fly up to an altitude of 10,000 feet.
 At 10,000 feet, you will never find another bird, it has to be an eagle.
 Like an eagle, let your dance performance constantly set a standard.
 However, it's not easy to set a dance standard in the presence of so many outstanding dance companies and their stars.
 But it's possible. Start from your base or immediate environment. After all, that's your first market point.

If you can be the standard in your base, it's a good thing. It means you cannot be overlooked outside. That's the point.

Dance and Vision

SAD!
majority, actually more than 80% of people who claim to want to dive into professional dancing or dance Entrepreneurship capacity lack vision or don't have a clear vision of what they really want to achieve or where they truly want to reach.
They just somehow hope it's possible to reach somewhere meaningful if they stick with their dance talent. But we all know talent is not enough to achieve great vision.

Unfortunately, that's the major reason why these 80% percent are poor and making minimal impact in spite of the abundance of talent they are gifted with by God.

To help limit this, here's one top practical point to consider and apply.

POINT

 Write down a vision-your vision of what you want to see happen to the world or in the world. It should be the big picture - talking about the complete image of your dance career.

Set backs will certainly occur and tough times will certainly hit you and almost compelling you to back down and settle for something less, don't.

Follow your vision. It's only a clear vision that you're working to accomplish that can distinguish you from the majority 80%.

So, write it down, bold and clear. Let it be more than a memory verse in your head.

It's part of the vision of M9 Dance Company to add meaning to the world's dance community through diverse means. That's why am here and it's easy because it's already scripted in a written vision.

If you've just been dancing without a long term vision that includes you still making money through dance after decades of retirement or no-more-active-dancing period, then you will certainly be part of that 80% of talented dancers.

Do what you must. Write down your dance vision today and enjoy its fruition tomorrow.

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Dance entrepreneurship

I don't have much to say here but one very important secret to help dance entrepreneurs.
 Here's IT.

At all times, have at least two dancers of similar skills and talents in all offered dance routines. That will give you some good sleep in case of uncertainties and provocative situations where one key dancer is unavailable or taken over by pride.

Kindly contact M9 Dance Company for more vital information on this and more dance entrepreneurship training hot-subjects.

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How to teach kids dance #untold

Over many years, we've read, heard and tried many ways of teaching kids how to dance. What we read, heard and tried all made their separate points and that's good.
But here's something new.
 Add this to your list of techniques.

1. Make it competitive. Let them know it's competitive. It will charge them, to focus more, try more and learn more because they want to prove their soundness and express their selves more.

2. Make it rewarding. Place a prize or gift item for the most outstanding student/kid. You will be surprised at their performances.

3. Be fair and encourage them all the way.

4. Make it a standard in your training and whoever gets use to it will become a good asset in dance matters and that's the final point of the dance training.

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Dance Event Organization

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Dance kids _Nigeria got talent

M9 dance school is very reliable and experienced in training kids to dance explicitly well, with a sense of global standard.
 Because the future of the professional dance community belongs to kids, M9 Dance School is determined to raise kid dancers that will preserve our legacy and inspire generations ahead.

Through many means, we are doing our best to cause a dance revolution in Nigeria and it's happening gradually.

Super Dance Kids

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