K-Pop Cover Dance & Choreography Contest - 23rd of september in Hannover!
ABOUT THE KDC 2023
We are more than excited to finally present to you, the first ever Konnecting Dance Contest!
During the pandemic we organised two online version, now we are more than proud to finally greet you in real life!
With this contest, the name speaks for itself - Konnecting Dance - the connection to dance comes first and is the guideline for this competition
Our aspirations are
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a fair and respectful competition
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acknowledging dance as an artform and sport
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not to focus on K-Pop, nor cover, but DANCE
It is our goal to implement these aspirations through our concept, the judging criterias and the picked judges.
We thank you for your support and interest and cannot wait for your sign ups!
Lets KONNECT!
CATEGORIES
YOu can sign up in the following categories
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Solo
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Small group / 2 bis 5 dancers
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Big group / over 6 dancers
We are offering you 2 different forms of competition, that differ the most in their judging criterias
COVER & CHOREOGRAPHY SHOW
Either present a K-Pop Song in its original form, or get creative and use K-Pop as an inspiration and base.
RULES
COVER
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Intros/Dancebreaks are allowed, as long as they come from the original artist itself and have a source (e.g fancams)
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Membercount of the original artist is not relevant
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Every song with a K-Pop reference is allowed, e.g
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japanese and chinese releases of K-Pop Artists
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songs sung in english, like XG
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Songs produced for shows like Produce 101, Kingdom,
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and so on
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English (western) songs with a K-Pop background are not allowed, e.g
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Studio Choom Artist of the Month
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Covers like Jisoo "Liar", Ten x Winwin "lovely", Ateez "KQ Fellaz"
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and so on
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Choreos have to be covered in their original form. It is allowed to make reasonable changes, because of different member count or tricks/stunts (e.g flips).
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Your chosen choreo has to have a youtube video you can reference as the source
The maximum length of a cover is 4 minutes for a group (e.g a “normal” song length + intro/dancebreak) and 3:30 minutes for solos ( e.g a “normal” song length)
A tolerance of +/- 10 seconds is allowed
CHOREOGRAPHY
Songauswahl
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A Choreography show consists of at least 2 different songs
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Every song with a K-Pop background is allowed, e.g erlaubt, auch
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japanese and chinese releases of K-Pop Artists
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songs sung in english, like XG
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Songs produced for shows like Produce 101, Kingdom,
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and so on
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English (western) songs with a K-Pop background are not allowed, e.g
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Studio Choom Artist of the Month
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Covers like Jisoo "Liar", Ten x Winwin "lovely", Ateez "KQ Fellaz"
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and so on
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Choreo
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It is allowed to use parts from original K-Pop Choreos in your show (following the "cover" rules). The length of the copied parts cannot be more than 1/3 of your whole show
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It is not allowed to copy other existing choreos, that are not K-Pop choreos, but have a K-Pop connection, e.g
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Studio Choom Artist of the Month
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Concept Videos/Performances by Idols
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Studio Choreos from 1Million and the like
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any other ideas from choreographers, neither from internet nor from real life
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Choreography shows have to contain your own ideas!
The maximum length of a choreography show is 3 minutesy for groups and 2:30 minutes for solos
A tolerance of +/- 10 seconds is allowed
MULTIPLE PARTICIPATION
Dancers can compete once in every category+form
Here are EXAMPLES to make it more clear:
It is allowed to participate as
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a solo with a cover and a solo with a choreography show, since we consider this 2 different categories
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a solo with a cover and as part of a group cover
It is not allowed to participate
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twice as a solo with a choreography show
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twice, as a member of two different small groups with covers
JUDGING CRITERIAS
These are the judging criterias only for the Cover Category
The total of 200 points will be split into the following criterias:
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Technique
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Synchronisation
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Movement Quality
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Stage Presence
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Facials
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Accuracy of covering
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K-Pop Feeling
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Outfits/Coherence
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Difficulty
These are the judging criterias only for the Choreography Category.
The total of 200 points will be split into the following criterias:
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Technique
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Synchronisation
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Movement Quality
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Stage Presence
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Facials
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Outfits/Coherence
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Difficulty
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Creativity
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Composition
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Music Edit
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Formations
The weightage of the criterias will be decided together with the judges and will be released before the end of the sign up period
JURY
The first Konnecting Dance Contest will be judged by a panel of five judges, consisting of K-Pop Pro's aswell as professional working dancers. What I attached importance to when chosing the judges, is to gain a diversity of styles and influences, as well as years of experience and advanced education, beyond K-Pop dance
Before the end of the sign up period, we will present to you all the judges on this website!
STARTING FEES
As it goes in life, nothing is for free. Since Konnecting Dance is a community oriented organisation, we are non profit! Thats why we need to collect fees in order to make this contest happen!
The collected fees are solely used to cover the four digit expenses that come with an event like this. These expenses are for example:
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Rental for the main hall + attached rooms
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Gema
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fair wages for the jury + travel expenses
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light technicians
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professional photographers and videographers
The starting fees are staggered for multiple participation, no matter the categories
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Solo
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20€ // 1 x participation
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18€ // 2 x participation
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16€ //3 x participation
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Groups - per dancer
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18€ // 1 x participation
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16€ // 2 x participation
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15€ // 3 x participation
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EXAMPLE: You participate as a solo with a cover, as well as with your group. That makes a double participation. So you only pay 18€ for your solo spot, and only 16€ for your group spot. Your team mates are only participating as a group, so they pay 18€ each for their group spots.
LOCATION
The contest takes place at the Stadtteilzentrum Lister Turm in Hannover
