At every DANCEAMERICA preliminary, studios are invited to submit entries choreographed by a full time student (15 years of age or older) in this very special category. Routines competing for this award will perform in their regularly scheduled category but will be judged twice: once for placement and once for choreography.

Judges are made aware that a particular routine will be performing in the Young Choreographer category and on a special judge's sheet, they will record the choreography score along with the other routines entered in the Young Choreography category for that city. Scoring is based on the following six criterion: Vision, Costuming, Musicality, Creativity, Staging and Emotion.

The routine receiving the Young Choreographer Award will be invited to perform at the 2012 DANCEAMERICA National Finals along with other Young Choreographer Award recipients from all other preliminary cities. The highest scoring of these contenders will receive the prestigious 2012 National Young Choreographer Award.

(Please see Rules & Regulations for complete entry requirements, in the AWARDS section of our RULES Page.)

DANCEAMERICA welcomes all young choreographers to showcase their own innovative choreographic concepts at our preliminary events!