I am talking IDO since that is not featured in the USA. I have seen how dancing (or kind of seen) in the USA works from the show Dance Moms. Anyways, IDO dancing is featured completely differently than American dancing. Just to let you know, IDO means International Dance Organization that is featured in those countries:
- Canada
- Slovak & Czech Republic
- Germany
- Estonia
- Jamaica
- Belarus
- Poland
- England
- Australia
- and many other countries from around the world (but these are probably the most featured, or these were featured at least at the competition where I was at)
So what's happening?
The season starts in January, and a lot of different cups in your country are made and you have to qualify for at least 1 to go to the nationals. After you do the country nationals, if you get a high enough place in the finals (if you even get there), you can go to the European or I guess your continent's nationals. And if you get a high enough place in the finals, you can go to the world championships.
OK, but how does it really work?
We have different types of dancing competitions as well, but there are not 2 different dance styles featured in one group. So you either have for example disco, but not mixed with Hip-Hop so you don't have 2 types in 1 column. Until now, I have been only featured in the Hip-Hop and Street dance (which is usually on the same competition as Disco), so I am going to talk about that the most over here, at this blog. If you have any questions, write it as a comment, cause if I will write everything about IDO I would be dead by the time I finish.
Here are the categories you can go into:
- Solo (1 person)
- Duo (2 people)
- Group (3-7 people)
- Formation (8-24 people)
- Rookie champ (beginners)
- Battles (a whole another chapter that I will explain later)
People get judged by the judges (obviously) in a form of numbers. In the finals, if a competitor gets a 1, it means the judge wants him on the 1st place (if they say 6, 6th place etc.). In the other rounds (semifinals, quarter finals etc.) they either say Yes or No (as if they want them in the next round or not.). People in the finals receive diplomas, medals and/or cups. If the championship is a cup, every person gets a diploma (the place they got doesn't matter). If the championship is a normal championship people get diplomas only if they make it into the finals.
People get sorted into their "locker rooms" as a crew, in a medium size into multiple crews, or in a bigger championship as a country.
There is not a specific number of judges (I think), but there are usually about from 6 to 8.
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