Judging Criteria

Performers will be scored according to their ability to demonstrate the required performance aspects below:

Movement

- Choreography and Musicality

- Ability to convey expression through movement

- Confidence and Ease of movements 

- Artistic interpretation and choreography projected through movement as it relates to the selected music

- Flair and accent of dance movement, generating an atmosphere and instilling a mood appropriate to the specific routine

Difficulty

- Choreography that is performed with creativity, musicality, imagination and flow

- Fluidity of movements and/or combinations from one skill to another while demonstrating control

- Alignment, framework, and proper presentation of skills

Transition from floor to apparatus

- The ability to flow from the floor to the apparatus 

- Making the transition creative

Showmanship 

- Presentation

- Musicality, the ability to move with the music

- Ability to perform with appeal to the audience

- Eye contact, body and facial expressions and how much the audience is captivated and engaged by the competitor’s performance.

Dynamic

- Dynamic movement can be drops, catches, using momentum for explosive entries into a pose etc. Examples of dynamic movement: Beating, Flares, increased in speed or sudden movements

Flexibility

- The competitor should demonstrate flexibility in the shoulders, back, arms and legs

- Examples of flexibility: Active flexibility, inverted split poses, passive splits, backbends

Strength

- The competitor must demonstrate physical strength. Examples of strength: endurance, technique and control of limbs and core

Technical difficulties and skill execution

- Trick combinations are a sequence of several tricks linked together

- The transitions within apparatus tricks and combos

- The level of difficulty within each skill/trick

- The level of difficulty within the trick combination

- How clean was the execution of the combination or trick

- The level of ease with which the performers moves through combinations or tricks

Lines

Judges will be looking for clean lines, pointed toes and feet, tricks performed cleanly and smoothly, with endurance and control from the beginning to the end of the routine