Good advanced planning and preparation can take a lot of stress out of entering and attending competitions, allowing you and your dance child to really enjoy the occasion and maybe be successful in terms of dancing to the best of one's ability. And, maybe even gaining a place amongst the winners. How much time you have until the competition can help determine how many dances they enter, and what dance ability level they currently are at as opposed to what level they wish to

To Be or Not to Be in the dance competitions? That is the question that many parents, students and dance teachers are currently asking themselves. Quite frankly, many are viewing the upcoming season with a quietly concealed feeling of dread, as artistry and integrity, grace and manners disappear out of many studio windows to be replaced by dance tricks, flashy cheap moves and tantrums galore or glorious - depending on your opinion, of course. Competitions can bring out the