Canada Dance Competition Tour - 2013

Date Event Status Location
October 20-21, 2012 Sudbury Off The Charts Workshop CLOSED Radisson Convention Centre
October 27-28, 2012 Timmins Off The Charts Workshop CLOSED Days Inn Convention Centre
March 01-04, 2013 Thunder Bay Dance Competition SOLD OUT Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
March 08-10, 2013 Winnipeg Dance Competition SOLD OUT Pantages Playhouse Theatre
March 29-31, 2013 Easter Weekend
April 06-08, 2013 Vancouver Dance Competition SOLD OUT The ACT Arts Centre & Theatre
April 18-21, 2013 Ottawa Dance Competition SOLD OUT De La Salle Auditorium
April 25-28, 2013 Sudbury Dance Competition SOLD OUT Alponse Raymond Theatre
May 01-05, 2013 Calgary Dance Competition SOLD OUT Wright Theatre
May 17-19, 2013 Moncton Dance Competition Register Online Capitol Theatre
May 24-26, 2013 Barrie Dance Competition SOLD OUT Fisher Auditorium

International Top Studio Challenge & Dance Convention

Date Event Status Location
June 28 to July 1, 2013 Top Studio Challenge & Dance Convention Register Online Fairmont, Mont-Tremblant Resort
June 27 to July 1, 2014 Top Studio Challenge & Dance Convention Register Online Fairmont, Mont-Tremblant Resort

International Finals

Date Event Status Location
June 29 to July 2, 2013 Las Vegas, NV Register Online Green Valley Ranch
July 7 to July 10, 2014 Las Vegas, NV Register Online Green Valley Ranch

Thunderstruck Canada Dance Competition

Thunderstruck Canada Dance Competition

As one of Canada's premier Dance Competitions, Thunderstruck Canada is committed to providing a high-standard dance competition offering quality dance education from a panel of professionally recognized and qualified judges. Their training and experience will provide only the best, leaving students and teachers with insights about choreography, improved technique, and an amazing memory of the event to motivate them throughout their season and dance career.

Whether it is an experienced competitive dancer or a petites first solo, both dancers and studio's will recognize, benefit and appreciate the constructive adjudication provided by our Internationally recognized Judging panel.

Our Dance Competition Tour will span from Vancouver to Moncton with stops in Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and numerous locations throughout Ontario. We will be as far north as Thunder Bay, down through Sudbury and Barrie to Kitchener / Waterloo, and over to the countries capital with a stop in Ottawa. The season will culminate with our Top Studio Challenge & Dance Convention at the Fairmont in Mont-Tremblant, QC.

There will also be Off The Charts Dance workshops offered at all of our events this season. Thunderstruck Canada Dance Competition Tour dates are complemented by the American Tour featured across the United States. Our International Finals will be in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Built on years of experience and success we care for and understand teachers, parents and competitors. We are committed to making your competition experience unforgettable. We strive to make our dance competitions fun for everyone whether you are dancing, helping, or there to watch and support. As part of the the Federation of Dance Competitions, we are committed to running well organized events in great venues with professional judges and great awards. Recognition for dancers achievements at all levels is important. We provide adjudication trophies for every routine and award Top 10 Overalls for every Age Group (Petite, Junior, Teen, Senior, and Adult) and Division (Solo, Duo/Trio, Small Group, Large Group, and Line) for each of our three Performance Divisions (Future Star, Shinning Star, and Rock Star).

2012 FDC PCA Winner - A Tribute to Jordan Fram, Project Dance

FDC People's Choice 2012 Winner

2012 FDC's People's Choice Award

The Federation of Dance Competitions (FDC) People's Choice Online Vote has ended and Project Dance's routine "A Tribute To Jordan Fram" topped the voting from all the Thunderstruck Regional entries across North America with the most online votes.

Project Dance will represent Thunderstruck at the annual FDC Gala in Cancun this September with an expense paid trip courtesy of Thunderstruck Canada.

Congratulations to Maegan and Project Dance, all the dancers that performed the routine, and to everyone that supported them by voting. It is great that they will represent Canada.

Here is a link to our YouTube Channel where you can watch the winning routine "A Tribute To Jordan Fram"

New Scoring Scale

Scoring Scale

As we continue to strive to improve our competition we always look to measure changes on how they will affect the fun, fairness, and compete level at our events across all of our age and performance divisions. After consultation with a number of our adjudicators this past season we've made the decision to introduce new adjudication levels at the top and bottom of the scoring scale.

We are introducing a Platinum Thunder at the top end. This is an award that is super hard to receive and is replacing the higher end of our Lightning Gold range with something special. Previously, the Lightning Gold award spanned over 15 to 22 points depending on the performance divisions. For instance, this past season a Rock Star that scored a 285 received a Lightning Gold but so did the routine that scored a 295. Now, for Rock Star anything over 290 will get Platinum and routines scoring 283 to 289.99 will get Lightning Gold.

We've also added a Bronze award on the lower end. This effectively has allowed us to tighten up the range between awards throughout our scoring scale so that routines scores within a certain award level will be closer.

Here is a look at the new scoring scale:

Future Star DivisionShining Star DivisionRock Star Division
284.00-300.00 = Platinum Thunder287.00-300.00 = Platinum Thunder290.00-300.00 = Platinum Thunder
277.00-283.99 = Lightning Gold280.00-286.99 = Lightning Gold283.00-289.99 = Lightning Gold
267.00-276.99 = High Gold270.00-279.99 = High Gold273.00-282.99 = High Gold
255.00-266.99 = Gold258.00-269.99 = Gold261.00-272.99 = Gold
240.00-254.99 = High Silver243.00-257.99 = High Silver246.00-260.99 = High Silver
225.00-239.99 = Silver228.00-242.99 = Silver231.00-245.99 = Silver
210.00-224.99 = Bronze213.00-227.99 = Bronze216.00-230.99 = Bronze
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