Dancers train all year, compete for a weekend, win their awards — and then it's over. The energy, the camaraderie, the feeling of being part of something — it doesn't travel home with them.
Alongside their studio, every dancer joins a House (Rise, Unleash, Impact, Ignite) a community they choose because it feels like them.— a cross-studio community that unites dancers across the board. A bond that transforms past studios. It turns a room full of competitors into a room full of teammates.
That's what we're building with KinetX: not just a competition, but a community of dancers that breathes well beyond just a weekend.
We run every event with a minimum of 5 participating studios. We confirm or cancel each event no later than 30 days out — the same day your entry fees become non-refundable — and email every registered director either way. If we cancel for insufficient participation, every fee comes back to you in full, entry and media both.
Extended time is available at registration. Routines that run over without it take a 1-point deduction per judge for every 15 seconds.
Age is set as of January 1. Groups use average age, rounding up from .5. Any routine with a dancer 20 or older goes to College or Adult regardless of the average. Routine level follows the majority of its dancers and is calculated automatically at registration; even splits move up.
Withdraw entries for a full refund up to 30 days out. Inside 30 days, entry fees are non-refundable.
If a dancer is injured or ill, send a doctor's note within a week of the event and we'll issue a studio credit, good for 12 months at any KinetX event. Substitutions are welcome in every category except Solos, and injury-related changes don't carry the $25 fee.
Call us before you withdraw a routine. A substitution or a category adjustment usually solves it and nobody loses money.
Beyond that, $50 per additional 30 seconds prepaid or $75 arranged on-site; routines with unpaid extended time aren't eligible for Overall Awards.
This allotted time given is not automatic. You must state during registration that you need prop setup time or KinetX will assume a dance routine does not need any time for prop setup.
Personal photography and video are not permitted during performances. The Media Package is required for all dancers and covers every photo and video of their routines, hosted on Dance Comp Genie and available to download the same day. The fee is separate from entry fees and is calculated on your registration page.
Because registration is first-come, first-served, we can't guarantee that every single division will have a full field. The 5-studio minimum covers the event, not all 1,600 possible combinations of level, age, category, and routine size.