Competition Weekends 2024
Competition Weekends have been a blast this season so far!
This page will have all of the meeting/warm-up information, schedules and other important information.
**Please remember that we don’t get exact performance information from the competitions until a week before the individual events.
Celebration Talent Competition 4/11-4/13 at the DECC in Duluth, MN:
Please click HERE for the Tentative Celebration Schedule. Please see below for meeting and warm-up information.
Competition Reminders:
1-Arrival and Warm-Up:
Dancers should be ready at the school 2 hours before their scheduled performance time, or at doors open. Please see below for more details per dance/company.
Please make sure to be on time!
2-Awards
Award Ceremonies are on the schedule and will be held onstage. Dancers must wear WBDC attire to the competition and onstage when accepting awards.
Come early, stay late, and cheer on WBDC dancers!
3-Photos & Video
Taking photos and video at the competition is not permitted. Photos and Videos can be purchased at the competition.
4-Livestream
The entire competition and awards will be livestreamed. Please see the competition’s webpage.
5- Bring backup tights, shoes, and triple check that you have all your costume pieces!
6- We love friends and family members coming to cheer on dancers! Please make sure that they do not come into the dressing room/warm-up areas. The dressing room/warm-up areas are for dancers and the adult family member assisting with costume changes.
7-Make sure to not have nail polish on, tattoos showing, extra piercings in, colored hair showing, etc.
Friday 4/11:
Doors Open 5:00pm
All Teen solos need to be there at doors open or two hours ahead of time.
WBDC staff will be available beginning at 5:00pm for warm-up. Dancers that perform later will need to warm-up on their own and be sure to check in with WBDC staff upon arrival at the facility.
Awards are at 10:00pm
Saturday 4/12:
Doors Open 7:00am
Elite Company should be at the facility by 7:00am and meet Lindsay at 7:15am in the lobby in tap costumes, but with freeforms on to warm-up.
Eleanor, Addie W, Veda, Ellarie, Sophie, Gisele and Ruthie should meet Jenny, Katie, Gretchen and Lindsay at 7:15am in the lobby 100% dressed and ready.
Noelle should meet Gretchen in the lobby at 7:45am 100% dress and ready.
Hip Hop Company 1 dancers, not in Elite Company, need to be at the facility two hours ahead of time but should meet Aaliyah/Lindsay in the lobby at 9:00am in full costume.
Aria needs to be at the facility 2 hours ahead of time, but should meet Katie in the dressing room following Addie’s Musical Theater solo “Rich and Famous”.
Awards at 11:00am
Petite Company, not competiting in the morning session, should be at the facility two hours ahead of time and meet Allie M and Ella D at 11:15am in the lobby in Hip Hop Company 2 costumes or Petite Company Lyrical. Petite Company dancers in the morning session need to be in Hip Hop Company 2 costumes or Petite Company Lyrical for awards and then immediately join their company in the lobby following the ceremony.
Mini Company should be at the facility two hours ahead of time and meet Ella P, Sofia and Ellie at 12:45pm in the lobby in their jazz costume.
Intermediate Company should be at the facility two hours ahead of time and meet Bonnie, Lucie B and Lindsay at 12:45pm.
Awards are at 2:55pm
All Junior solos need to be there two hours ahead of time and check in with WBDC staff upon arrival at the facility. Dancers will be responsible for their own, independent warm-up and WBDC staff will rotate throughout this session amongst the dancers.
Awards are at 6:00pm
All Teen Duets/Trios and Teen/Senior Small Groups need to be there two hours ahead of time. Dancers will be responsible for their own group warm-ups and need to check in with Katie and Jenny for additional warm-up information at the facility. Small Group Check-in Dancers: “Just Around The Corner”-Kaitlyn, “My Party Dress”-Hannah, “Brand New”-Sofia, “On The Surface”-Abby, “Sign Of The Times”-Addie W, “End Of Love”-Riley, “100% Pure Love”-Allie M and “Aldolpho”-Ellie
Awards are at 9:55pm
Sunday 4/13:
Doors Open 7:00am
Junior Company needs to be there at 7:00am and meet Maiken, Savannah and Aaliyah at 7:15am in their tap costume with freeforms.
PreTeen Company needs to be there at 7:00am and meet Sofia and Jenny at 7:15am in their contemporary costumes with freeforms.
Carly and Leia warm-up small group together.
Gretta, you will be there due to your sister! :-)
“Bathing Beauties” meet Bonnie in the dressing room after Hip Hop Company 3.
“Friend Like Me” should meet Gretchen in the dressing room immediately following Reese and Gretta’s duet.
“Inside The Tornado” needs to warm-up independently between other pieces and meet Jenny in the dressing room after Addie & Rose’s duet.
Zaynah and Kennedy warm-up together and meet Aaliyah after Hip Hop Company 3 in the dressing room.
Any other duets/trios not listed above will need to warm-up independently and touch base with WBDC Staff between pieces.
Awards are at 10:40am
Hip Hop Company 4 needs to meet immediately following awards for warm-up.
Senior Company needs to meet in the lobby after “Bathing Beauties” to warm-up everything as a group.
Teen Company needs to meet in the lobby at 11:00am to warm-up everything as a group.
Hip Hop Company 4/Teen/Senior company check-in dancers. “Cry Me A River”-Ella P, “321 Go”-Zaynah, “I’ve Got A Dream”-Savannah, “Get This Party Started”-Addie O, “Noisemaker”-Riley, “Houdini”-Alyson, “Secret Love Song”-Sehana, “Snow Angel”-Kennedy, “Let’s Go”-Sienna, “One Big Party”-Bonnie
Production dancers not in Teen or Senior Company need to meet Gretchen at 1:30 or after Teen Company Tap “Houdini” 100% dressed and in the lobby.
Awards are at 3:30pm
Senior Soloists will warm-up independently and touch base with WBDC staff members.
Awards are at 8:45pm