Editing Dance (section)

== Competitions ==
[[File:MIT 2006 Standard Prechamp Final 2.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.45|An amateur dancesport competition, featuring the [[Viennese Waltz]]]]

A '''dance competition''' is an organized event in which contestants perform dances before a judge or judges for awards, and in some cases, monetary prizes. There are several major types of dance competitions, distinguished primarily by the style or styles of dances performed. Dance competitions are an excellent setting to build connections with industry leading faculty members, adjudicators, choreographers and other dancers from competing studios. A typical dance competition for younger pre-professional dancers can last anywhere between two and four days, depending whether it is a regional or national competition.

The purpose of dance competitions is to provide a fun and educative place for dancers and give them the opportunity to perform their choreographed routines from their current dance season onstage. Oftentimes, competitions will take place in a professional setting or may vary to non-performance spaces, such as a high school theatre. The results of the dancers are then dictated by a credible panel of judges and are evaluated on their performance than given a score. As far as competitive categories go, most competitions base their categories according to the dance style, age, experience level and the number of dancers competing in the routine.<ref name="Schupp 58–67">{{Cite journal |last=Schupp |first=Karen |date=2019-04-03 |title=Dance Competition Culture and Commercial Dance: Intertwined Aesthetics, Values, and Practices |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15290824.2018.1437622 |journal=Journal of Dance Education |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=58–67 |doi=10.1080/15290824.2018.1437622 |s2cid=150019666 |issn=1529-0824}}</ref> Major types of dance competitions include:

* '''[[Dancesport]]''', which is focused exclusively on [[ballroom dance|ballroom]] and [[latin dance]].
* '''[[Competitive dance]]''', in which a variety of theater dance styles, such as [[acro dance|acrobatics]], [[ballet]], [[jazz dance|jazz]], [[hip-hop]], [[lyrical dance|lyrical]], [[step dance|stepping]], and [[tap dance|tap]], are permitted.
* '''Commercial Dance''', consisting of as hip hop, jazz, locking, popping, breakdancing, contemporary etc.<ref name="Schupp 58–67"/>
* '''Single-style''' competitions, such as; [[Scottish highland dance|highland dance]], [[dance squad|dance team]], and [[Irish dance]], that only permit a single dance style.
* '''Open''' competitions, that permit a wide variety of dance styles. An example of this is the TV program ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]''.
*'''Olympic''', Dance has been trying to be part of the Olympic sport since 1930s.