While most dance teachers are still barred from their studios and live classes, they are finding E-DanceSport a valuable tool to keep students motivated to take online classes and keep working on their skills.

For just $2.50 (USD), dancers can enter videos demonstrating their balance, turns, extensions, jumps, and other dance fundamentals to get objective scoring and global ranking, along with quick personalized feedback from E-DanceSport judges, which in turn, should keep them striving to improve their scores and seek additional coaching.

And for just $5.00 (USD), dancers enter videos showcasing a 1-4 minute performance of their favorite dance styles, again for qualified judge scoring and feedback, as well as global ranking.  Some dancers will learn to choreograph for themselves, but most are likely to reach out to teachers to choreograph for them, and coach them on achieving the best technique, musicality, and feeling for each routine they submit.  Continuous competition opportunities are proven to accelerate skill development and stimulate additional coaching opportunities.

The E-DanceSport platform offers the first of it’s kind, “always on” virtual dance competitions and challenges. We maintain standards as close as possible to the best live competitions around the world. And we can provide additional benefits only available online.

What’s the same as live competitions?

Each competition entry is Scored and Ranked by qualified Judges.
Head-to-head competition with dancers in the same age and experience categories, provides dancers a goal and adrenaline boost to improve their performance with every event.
Each entry should be a “live” video submission.
Competitors are not permitted to edit or re-record until they’re satisfied. Once practice is finished, judges should see the real-time performance product.

What’s different with online competitions?

Virtual competitions are much more affordable and accurate!
There are no travel costs to join “world championships” which enables more, diverse dancers to compete in each dance style, experience level, and age group. By removing budget barriers, dancers benefit from a much more objective, global calibration of their talent and technique. And they can challenge themselves with competitions much more frequently.
Judges provide personal feedback and tips as they are judging each video submission.
Since they judge entries one-by-one instead of simultaneously, they have time to offer their expert insights to each competitor on each event. This timely, high quality, encouraging feedback from a variety of different judges will help dancers improve much faster!
Live audience not included.
Dancers can choose to invite family and friends to watch them perform their video submission, but it is not obligatory. Assembling a live audience helps dancers develop performance skills like eye contact. But being able to perform privately for the camera may be more comfortable for dancers who suffer from stage fright or anxiety. And learning to bring the same level of energy, emotion and charisma to the camera, without a live audience, is becoming increasingly valuable.
Coronavirus can’t stop us!
Many dancers – amateur and professional – have been devastated by the coronavirus lockdown which has ruined at least one live competition season for dancers who have worked very hard and passionately to prepare for it. Many are sharing their stories on social media. Here’s just one example.

Introducing E-DanceSport (https://e-dancesport.com #edancesport) – a new non-profit dedicated to making the healthy motivation of competition accessible to all dancers of all ages, experience levels, dance styles, locations, or financial conditions.

We created this E-DanceSport platform, with lightning speed, in response to the desperation of dance students and professionals stuck at home avoiding the Coronavirus or recovering from Covid19. As dancers, the competitions and shows we’ve been rehearsing so hard for the last few months have been cancelled with no reschedule in sight. So our finely tuned muscles are gradually atrophying and our spirits are sinking, and video classes just aren’t enough. As dance professionals, our income has been abruptly cut short as we’ve been barred from our studios, stages, and ballrooms. Now we are left with little to pay the bills, unless we can start competing and coaching again quickly.

While we intend E-DanceSport to long outlive the coronavirus, for the immediate term, we will do everything we can to support the dance industry in novel, virtual ways. Join us to create and share fun dance videos with specific goals. Give purpose to targeted online coaching from your teachers. Benefit from invaluable personal critiques from expert judges around the world.

Please refer your dance friends to build this community and stimulate the “dance economy” in this time of great need.
Spread the dance, not the virus!