The dance competition industry has reached a height of technological innovation in recent years. Dance competitions have always been a place for dancers and studios to come and show off their skills and passions. That being said, just like any performance medium and art culture, there is a great deal of organization and preparation behind the scenes. Traditionally and only until recently, all the organization, preparation, registration and programming of dance competitions has been done manually and manually. Doing the job by hand was the most efficient way for a long time, but also the only way we knew how. Registration forms would be typed and printed, collected, mailed, downloaded, reprinted, etc., etc. Any industry that has based its services on this type of business model has to adapt to the times or suffer conscience. People today want to be able to complete tasks at exponentially faster rates than ever before, and the longer it takes, the more unhappy we become. Since the inception of the Internet, our ability to send and receive data wirelessly has flourished. It makes sense that the dance competition industry would also flourish.

There are numerous technologies available today that benefit dance competitions throughout North America.

Online registration systems

Dance competitions now have the ability to use online registration systems that are built into their websites. These systems allow studios to create an online profile. These profiles will contain all the studio information and all the dancers, teachers, choreographers in that studio. The studio can then; Register students for different competition locations, register desired routines for students, and then pay instantly online. The entire process has gone from potentially taking weeks to minutes.

Automated scheduling and tabulation systems

In addition to being able to migrate all of the registration needs of a competition online, we are still left with all of the scheduling and scoring tabulation that takes place within the dance competition industry. Today, without a software system, things are again mostly done by hand using programs like Excel. Excel has been a great support for competitions when it comes to programming, but when you have hundreds of routines to program and you have to manually make sure there are no repeat dancers, all the timings are correct and things are exactly perfect, everything can add. to a great nightmare. There are now automated scheduling and tabulating systems available for dance competitions. These systems sync up with the current Online Registration System that the competition is using to get everything back; registration, location and study information. At this point, programming becomes a breeze. The competition can now easily design and maneuver the schedule for each location. Never worry about dancer conflicts again as the color codes will automatically alert you if a dancer has their back turned. Now just save and print. Again, new technology has allowed dance competitions to reduce the process of scheduling an event that could have taken days to minutes.

The way competitions tabulate and award prizes is always unique and the prize structure is often the defining characteristic of the competition. With an Automated Scheduling+Tabulation System, the unique character and culture of a competition is catered for, while the ability to tabulate scores is made quick and easy. The judges’ scores are now delivered to the tabulator which has a computer running Automated Scheduling + Tabulation software, then the scores are entered into the system and instantly calculated with the specific award assigned for that point range. Tabulating has never been better!

Automated scheduling and tabulating systems can also create custom reports that fully reflect all aspects of the reports a competition may have been using!

Video

Getting affordable, high-quality professional videos of a dance competition hasn’t been easy. But with advances in camera technology and multimedia integration with the Internet, solutions are emerging quickly. Dance competitions can now film high-quality footage of their competition and routines that can be sorted and organized by routine and uploaded to the competitions website. No more outdated DVDs and VHS tapes. All video of a competition along with audio from the judges will be available on your own website with the ability to sell or give away as the competition sees fit. Never before in history have dance competitions been able to share their show and performance with a global audience with such ease and brilliance.

It is always vital that companies that design and develop these types of systems and software can do it all. There have been many companies that are tackling one aspect of the dance competition industry, but it is rare that one company offers solutions for the full range of the dance competition industry. Dance Comp Genie has done just that. Dance Comp Genie is a software development company that has created solutions to all of the above with their state of the art systems designed specifically for dance competitions.