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The Basics of Our American Sport-Dance Games®

Jann Davis

PLEASE NOTE

To control plagiarism in the dance studio industry, our American Sport Dance Games® events are OWNED by members of AADI, with a paid VIP membership, for THEIR profit, not ours. There are NO tours, events are held in all 48 contiguous states. It is difficult to put all the information down on paper, that’s why I hold LIVE seminars. This design is NOT for everybody, it’s not meant to be that. It was designed it to make more sense out of some of the current issues that surround dance competitions. If you have questions, use the CONTACT FORM and ASK.


Contents of this post is given out in workbook form to attendees of our LIVE studio seminars. AADI Membership is as follows:

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS AND FEES:

Individual DT/SO MEMBERSHIP

2025 $39.99 Monthly Fee

$39.00 Per Month $390.00 Yearly

STUDIO GROUP OWNERSHIP MEMBERSHIPS

Up To 3 Faculty Members*

2025 $49.00 Per Month $490.00 Yearly

Up To 6 Faculty Members*

2025 $79.00 Monthly* Fee $790.00 Yearly

Unlimited Faculty Members*

2025 $219 Per Month $2190.00 Yearly 

* All Members MUST Be Listed As Faculty On Studio Website

VIP MEMBERSHIP FOR AMERICAN SPORT DANCE GAME™OWNERSHIP

2025 $399 Per Month $1995.00 Bi-Annually

Must Be A Member Of AADI For Six Months To Hold

American Sport Dance Game™ Events


Want to test drive our NEW Rubric based score system? Jann Davis is available to adjudicate via a video a RECREATIONAL routine jazz only 10-12 students for FREE!!! Complete the CONTACT FORM and she will be in touch

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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.


Here is our basic information:


STUDENT AGE/SCHOOL GRADE GROUPS

Novice: Grades 1-10 Studying up to 3 hours weekly

Primary: ` PK To Grade 2

Intermediate: Grades 3 To 5

Junior: Grades 6 To 8

Senior: Grades 9 To 12


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


Skill levels are according to what is on the Domain Dance® list for turns, jumps, flexibility training (NO acro tricks are allowed in the NOVICE routines) and performance value. Each team competes for four minutes, one compulsory routine, one creative. 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.


HOSTING/SPONSORING DANCE STUDIOS are needed who agree to use a word-of-mouth system and refer us to 15 plus other like-minded friends 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 TWO seats at a seminar not included in the overall total, and 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 25 attendees. Email Jann to schedule this type of seminar info@janndaviscompany.com

 

The attendee fee for non-members of AADI is $299 which is applied in FULL to an AADI one-year 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 snacks and a light lunch.


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!

Your Questions To Us!


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.

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. 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 during the 2024-2025 competition season 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 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-1, and 12 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. 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.

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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?


One Day Meet Schedule Sample

One Session Only There Are FOUR Sessions Per Day

Meet #1

Primary K-2 Level I*

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

DIVISION A

FACILITY

WARM UP

CREATIVE

COMPULSORY

PLACEMENT


 

TEAM #1

8:30 AM

8:55 AM

9:20 AM

 


 

TEAM #2

8:35 AM

9:00 AM

9:25 AM

 


 

TEAM #3

8:40 AM

9:05 AM

9:30 AM

 


 

TEAM #4

8:45 AM

9:10 AM

9:35 AM

 


 

TEAM #5

8:50 AM

9:15 AM

9:40 AM

 


 

 

 

 

 

Awards Meet #1

10:00 AM


Thanks For Visiting And Please Share Us With Others


©Jann Davis, February 2, 2025, All Rights Reserved


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