AMERICAN SPORT DANCE GAMES® BASICS
What Are They And How Do They Work?
.We use a curriculum called Domain Dance®, based on the traditional techniques of ballet and jazz (sorry no hip hop or other dance genres, ACRO is limited to Levels 5-6 on our skills curriculum) created on a model Ms. Davis designed after attending sport events as a public educator.
STUDENT AGE/SCHOOL GRADE GROUPS
Novice: Grades 1-10 Studying up to 3 hours weekly
Primary: ` K To Grade 2
Intermediate: Grades 3 To 5
Junior: Grades 6 To 8
Senior: Grades 9 To 10
We use school grades to make it easier for studios to enroll students in our Domain Dance® program at their facilities. No age averaging, student must be in the school grades as listed.
FACILITY-STUDIO DIVISIONS
Division A: One Location/One Dance Classroom
Division B: One Location/Two Dance Classrooms
Division C: Multiple Locations/Multiple Dance Classrooms
DOMAIN DANCE® LEVELS I-VI
Introducing DOMAIN Dance® for the American Sport Dance Games® programs based on the traditions of ballet and jazz. Domain Dance® introduces and utilizes the core skills dance students need to achieve competencies in dance. A specific skill list for turns, jumps, flexibility training, performance, traveling movement and choreography patterns for your students grades K-10. Our seminars introduce how to choreograph team routines for consistency and OBJECTIVE RUBRIC SCORE purposes at our events.
What is contained on each level is discussed by all attendees at in person seminars for understanding and design development. VIP Members of AADI are capable of adding/deleting rules and discussing the elements contained inn the rubrics.
Each team competes for four minutes, one compulsory routine (learned at teacher/student conferences), one creative designed by the entering studio. Music must be APPROPRIATE for family listening, and dancers wear their dance studio team uniform not costumes for BOTH routines.
YOU ONLY COMPETE WITH OTHER STUDIOS IN THE SAME DIVISION AS YOU!!! THE EDUCATIONAL SITE LICENSE IS FOR ONE OF THE THREE LEVELS COORDINATING WITH YOUR CHOICE TO HOLD EVENTS BASED ON YOUR DIVISION. EVENTS ARE OPEN ONLY TO OUR AADI MEMBERS.
HOSTING/SPONSORING DANCE STUDIOS are needed who agree to use a word-of-mouth system and refer us to 10 plus other like-minded studios/educators to attend. Currently we are looking for studios in New England: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine and Upstate and Long Island NY and possibly Florida. The preference is to hold the seminars on weekend days on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
Host studio owners are given a commission on each attendee recruited to attend. No further discounts are given for studios; however, a studio may hold a seminar with two-three other like-minded studios for a fixed fee, up to 35 attendees per each seminar. Email Jann to schedule this type of seminar info@janndaviscompany.com
The attendee fee is $299 which is applied in FULL to a one-year AADI regular membership, if one chooses to join during the seminar. Amazon gift cards are given to ALL attendees, ONE attendee is gifted a $100 Amazon Gift Card via a raffle held at a seminar. The fee includes refreshments.
Ms. Davis travels via Amtrak/MBTA Commuter rail in the Northeast states. The new model American Sport Dance Games® can be held in the areas where the seminars are held so members can enjoy a new income stream throughout the dance season with the promise of a new model of adjudication and instruction for the future.
You can continue to attend competitions owned by others or you can change your future financial success. Remember the definition of insanity attributed to Albert Einstein is "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".
American Sport-Dance Games® is the ALTERNATIVE to current studio dance competition model offering teachers, studio owners, school dance team coaches, and after school enrichment programs event ownership. It is a competitive achievement for what you offer in your dance classrooms, based on proper ballet/jazz training for the four domains of dance education.
Here are our FAQs from you and to you!
How Can An Individual(s) Own An Event?
Studio dance competitions are currently owned by one person or a small group of people who may or may not have been in dance education. Why can’t you as an individual, a studio, or dance educator own one of our events? Studio dance competitions are often TOURS. Our events are held in specific areas of a state, creating their own regional tour without the complexity of hiring teams to travel or asking judges to subjectively score routines based on their experience as professional dancers who were once studio dancers. All those who adjudicate events and/or teach conferences for us are VIP Members of AADI
How Can You Assure That The Events Are Scored Objectively?
Jann Davis created the original adjudicated score system in 1976 that is used globally by studio dance competitions without her permission, it is licensed by her. The RUBRIC BASED SCORE SYSTEM available ONLY at our events is completely different, although others have tried to copy it which has resulted in teachers, students, parents and studio owners becoming frustrated and complaining a great deal about LEVELS. Based on the EXPECTATIONS For Dance Curriculum Frameworks®, our method of scoring is based on the curriculum rubrics attendees at our seminars are introduced to.
Our curriculum design is called DOMAIN DANCE®, all compulsory and creative routines must follow, all routines are score on what is IN the routine and therefore it is objective scoring not subjective scoring. There is training and certifications for this method available at an additional session for those who choose to purchase the educational site license via a VIP AADI membership. All who attend agree to additional constraints.
Rubrics are used in public education for specific skills students are required to meet in specific subjects. They are not based on a scoring of up to 100 points, but on how well a student achieves in the classroom, allowing for future improvement. EXPECTATIONS are part of the overall concept introducing a modern model for dance education and the Dance Classroom®.
Why Are There No Solos-Duo-Trios Or Small Groups
American Sport Dance Games® are team based, meaning the entries are for teams only beginning at 8 members for grades K-2, and 10 members or more for other educational grades. Games are based on what American Sport Dance Games® level students achieved, size of the team and size of the entering studio to keep the meets leveled.
What Is The Per Student Entry Fee?
The entry fee per student is $70, which we do post on our website, additional fees by facilities is their responsibility to explain to their students and it is suggested the fee be added into their tuition. The fee includes both sections of play compulsory and creative for four minutes of performance-achievement play. Each meet is scheduled for 90-minutes of play, like a sports game. Each meet day contains four American Sport Dance Games®. Events can be played on a weekend or as an after school event. After school meets allow for 2 games per meet. This is explained in full at a seminar.
POSSIBLE INCOME FOR YOU
$70 Per Team Member Times 10 Members On A Team EQUALS $700
$700 Times 5 Teams Per Meet Session Times 4 Teams Per Meet Day EQUALS $14,000
$14,000 Times A 2-Day Weekend Meet EQUALS $28,000 Base Income Before Expenses
Do you have a smaller number of student dance team members whose parents cannot afford the current studio dance competition circuit? Are you in an area of the country where the larger competitions do not come to? Are you looking for a way to increase student involvement, so students can learn more, but your parent clients do not want to overwhelm their child or themselves in something not viewed as a sport? Organize a seminar, be surprised that there is a different way to reward student achievement in your studio!!!
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