Welcome to our 26th Anniversary Dance Competition Season!
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We appreciate everyone following our COVID-19 protocols which resulted in no major outbreaks for any of the 43 studios that attended. We proved that wearing a mask works!
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We wanted to update you on our plans for next year as of December 26, 2020! Based on our health care professional’s advice, even if vaccines are available to everyone, we will still be required to wear masks. We don’t know if the vaccine will make everyone sterile to Covid-19 and that you could still pass the virus to other people even if you did not have any symptoms, basically, just like asymptomatic people can currently do. This means everyone will be required to wear a mask in the building except for the dancers when they are on stage and even then, it will be their choice on wearing a mask or not. However, the venue, city, county or state could still require masks be worn by the dancers and then we would not have any control over that situation. Sanitation will be done before and after all sessions, and the audience will be limited to one or two adults per dancer depending on state mandated protocols.
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The solo/duet/trio dances will run per normal with proper social distancing for awards (similar to what we did for Nationals). For groups, we would only allow 4-6 studios in the building at one time. We plan on having separate assigned dressing areas for each studio. Awards will not be until the end of the day or when the sessions for a division have been completed. We will try to do these awards when the divisions have been completed because obviously, we will not be able to deliver trophies like we did for National results. We will limit the group award sessions to only one dancer per studio per division and the teachers/directors from each studio. But the actual dance sessions will be run as close to a competitive session as in the past as possible. We do not want to have each studio come in one at a time because we feel that is too much like having a recital with no competition.
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We are have confirmed all of our locations and venues. As far as any changes or cancellations for next year, we all know with COVID-19, anything can change at any time. If we have to cancel a competition, everyone will get a full refund back, same as they did this past year.
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Once again thank you for trusting Dance Showcase USA with your dancers, staff and families at our 2020 Nationals. We believe each of you are a part of our dance family and we are going to help you stay safe and healthy at our regionals like we do with our own families. We hope you will give us the opportunity to work with you and your dancers in 2021. Directors/ Teachers, please feel free to call me at anytime if there are any additional questions you may have regarding our 2021 Regional dance competition Covid-19 policies or any other questions you may have.
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We wish for you and your dancers to have a wonderful start to your 2020-2021 dance season.
Thank You and Great Dancing!