Comments for Anthony LoCascio's Blog http://www.just4tap.com Keep up with the leader in dance networking technology and Veteran Tap Dog/Master Teacher Anthony LoCascio Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Top 10 Performance (competition) Things to Remember! by denise http://www.just4tap.com/2008/04/18/top-10-performance-competition-things-to-remember/#comment-6 denise Thu, 22 May 2008 14:18:48 +0000 http://www.just4tap.com/2008/04/18/top-10-performance-competition-things-to-remember/#comment-6 Thank you for these comments. I agree totally. We just finished a dance competition where you could not even hear the tap sounds from dancers. There is no way the judges could hear because I was right up front and could not hear a sound. It was a built stage and looked great but no tap coming through. Students were doing fouettes...not 1 or 2 but 8 or 9. It was pretty much judged on flash/costume, not tap. Most groups did no more than running flaps, sh hop st and lots and lots of arms. Hey, they were perfectly together but it was always very simple. It can be very frustrating. We did really well but even I think that some of my tap solos had muffled feet and scored high, or they were way ahead of their music ...but they were judged more on appearance. The judges had about 2 comments each on the three tapes. I know that it's a long day for judges but we need some kind of feedback. I try to keep the level of difficulty up for my students but it seems that it doesn't matter sometimes. Do you judge on the difficulty level as well???? Thanks for listening. Denise Thank you for these comments. I agree totally. We just finished a dance competition where you could not even hear the tap sounds from dancers. There is no way the judges could hear because I was right up front and could not hear a sound. It was a built stage and looked great but no tap coming through. Students were doing fouettes…not 1 or 2 but 8 or 9. It was pretty much judged on flash/costume, not tap. Most groups did no more than running flaps, sh hop st and lots and lots of arms. Hey, they were perfectly together but it was always very simple. It can be very frustrating. We did really well but even I think that some of my tap solos had muffled feet and scored high, or they were way ahead of their music …but they were judged more on appearance.

The judges had about 2 comments each on the three tapes. I know that it’s a long day for judges but we need some kind of feedback. I try to keep the level of difficulty up for my students but it seems that it doesn’t matter sometimes. Do you judge on the difficulty level as well????

Thanks for listening.

Denise

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