2025

Welcome!

Registration is for the 2025 season

Please refer to our website homepage www.teamcanadadance.ca as well as the auditon tabs for the most up-to-date information about our upcoming teams competing at exciting events all over the world!

PLANNED UPCOMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

IDO WORLD STREET DANCE SHOW CHAMPIONSHIP (Oct., 2025/Germany)

IDO WORLD TAP CHAMPIONSHIP (Oct.22-26, 2025/Prague, Czechia)

IDO WORLD HIP HOP, POPPING, & BATTLE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Oct.25-31, 2025/Slovenia)

IDO WORLD SHOWDANCE CHAMPIONSHIP (Nov.17-23, 2025/Belgrad,Serbia)

DO WORLD ACRO DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP (Nov.17-23, 2025/Belgrad, Serbia)

IDO WORLD JAZZ CHAMPIONSHIP (Nov.26-29, 2025/DePanne, Belgium)

IDO WORLD BALLET CHAMPIONSHIP (Nov.28-29, 2025/DePanne, Belgium)

IDO WORLD MODERN/CONTEMPORARY CHAMPIONSHIP Nov.30-Dec.4, 2025/DePanne, Belgium)

*YOU MAY ATTEND ONE OR SEVERAL*

IDO is a nonprofit World Dance and Dancesport Federation with over 90 members and contact nations, representing more than 500,000 dancers from all 6 continents! Team Canada Dance / IDO Canada is Canada’s National Member Organization

Team Canada Dance is a nonprofit organization that brings together Canada’s most elite dancers and choreographers to compete on the world stage, proudly representing Canada. Our organization allows dancers to travel, meet other dancers worldwide, and compete as a unified team with dancers across Canada. Team Canada Dance also allows Canadian dancers to learn from master teachers and choreographers both within Canada and abroad. We encourage our dancers and their supporters to foster good sportsmanship and to promote Canadian values while exhibiting our remarkable dance training. We only work with the ‘best of the best’ choreographers who choose the best dancers to represent Canada.

Each year, organizers from IDO National Member Organizations bid to host the next World Championship. Sometimes we compete in the same country consecutive years, sometimes a new host country wins their bid. Please remember that IDO is a non-profit and so information is not always available a year in advance as host organizers must negotiate with venues and hotels and consider their costs carefully. We always pass the information to our dancers when available. We do not have all the bidding information for 2025 as of yet, especially with some of the newer championships, nor will we have FINAL costs until closer to end of spring/start of summer, but we estimate our costs quite closely to final costs.

Team Canada Dance/IDO Canada has proven itself a worthy competitor at these events as an influencer and role model in the IDO community. Reaching the podium is an amazing way to celebrate all the hard work that everyone has put into the team, but dancers have also made great connections with each other and in the dance community. Past dancers have taught at international workshops and become adjudicators and choreographers themselves. Tap was our foundational Team Canada Dance team, and we went to Riesa for Tap in 1995 under the direction of Matthew Clark. With only 18 dancers from across Canada, we quickly made our mark at that first competition as a ‘team to beat’ - our choreography is considered original, and our dancers talented! Since then, our Canadians have impressed in Hip Hop, Popping, Breaking, Street Show, Show Dance, Ballet, Acro, Jazz, Modern/Contemporary, Disco, Ballroom, and more!

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VS WORLD CUP

The IDO World Championships are considered the Olympics of Dance. Dancers must qualify to participate and only the TOP 3 entries from each nation may compete. IDO uses a minimum of 5-7 adjudicators for each round, all of which passed a competency exam and are known experts in their field with experience to show. These are not the 'all discipline' adjudicators that are found in our regular national competitions. The World Championships compete in exciting elimination rounds, finishing the award ceremony with the national anthem of the winning country. It really is a special moment for everyone!

The World Championships are meant for the serious dancer who wants real competition. This will make you a better dancer by pushing yourself to be your best against the best from around the world.

World Cups are for profit all-genre competitions that accept any number of dancers. Their mission is profit and allow all dancers a chance to participate. These tend to be a more relaxed competition and more suited to dancers interested a vacation competition.

Team Canada Dance does occasionally participate in World Cups, however, our primary focus is on attending the official International Dance World Championships.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!

Let's get started....

DANCER NAME: The International Dance Organization uses official national passports to verify dancers, therefore, we must have the name on you passport (legal name), and sex as listed on passport. If you identify differently, please include where prompted. You may also list your daily/preferred name for our purposes if different.

DANCER EMAIL/PHONE: When we ask for dancer email and phone #, it is for our communication platform, TeamSnap. We want the dancers to participate. After the initial invitation to TeamSnap is sent, you can change the dancer email to 'private' and check the section to not receive all the communication, yet remain with access to the platform. Dancers with phones will be expected to receive information and answer any messages while at competition. If the dancer does not have a phone, they should be with someone who has one and can answer any messages/see important updates. Dancers under 12 are not expected to have a phone but if they do, please include.

PARENT/GUARDIAN CONTACT: There is a separate section for parent/guardian contact, please do not put parent/guardian info in dancer section. Parents/Guardians are automatically added/contacted for dancers 19 yrs and under. Other contacts can be added to your TeamSnap after receiving the initial invitation. All payment info will go to parent/guardian for dancers 19 yrs and under unless otherwise noted.

Full Name on Passport*

Given Name(s)Surname

Preferred Name

Short form or nickname if applicable

Date of Birth*

Date

Age*

As of December 31/2025

Sex on passport*

MaleFemaleX

Notes:

Gender *if identified different from passport*

MaleFemaleOther

Does the dancer have their own cell # and/or email?

NO - dancer DOES NOT have their own cell phone or emailYES - dance DOES have own cell AND/OR email

Dancer Cell #

Please enter a valid phone number.

Dancer Email

example@example.com

Should we contact THE DANCER email upcoming team information/opportunities?

YesNoOther

Does your primary residence have a landline phone?*

NoYes

Landline/Home Phone Number

Please enter a valid phone number.

Primary Address*

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

CityProvince/Region

Postal CodeCountry

Do you have a Mailing Address that is different from above*

NoYes

MAILING ADDRESS if different from above

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

CityProvince/Region

Postal CodeCountry

PLEASE NOTE: 'AUDITION TICKET' awarded at Dance Elite Challenge JumpStart (Aug. 11, 2024) will be considered equal to straight-to-team GOLDEN TICKETS.

Please upload a photo of the GOLDEN TICKET FRONT:*

Please upload a photo of the GOLDEN TICKET BACK:*

What is the number on the GOLDEN TICKET? It is on the back on the upper right corner.*

Where did you receive the GOLDEN TICKET?*

Do you know what genre the GOLDEN TICKET was awarded to you for? If yes, please list. If no, please let us know what you believe your strongest genre is that it may have been awarded to you for:*

What genres are you most interested in?*

What Companies/Studios have you trained at or are currently training at?*

Have you been a member of Team Canada Dance?*

NoYesOther

That's great! When? What team? Tell us about your experience:)

DANCERS under 18 yrs - You must include your parent/guardian. You may also choose to include contact information for a SECOND parent/guardian.

Dancers over 19 yrs - Optional to list your parent/guardian - if they should be recieving information, please include.

PARENT/GUARDIAN Contact Name

FIRST NAMESURNAME

Name Preference

If the name you want us to call you is different than legal name (eg. Richard = Rick, Elizabeth = Betty)

Relation to Dancer

Cell Phone Number

Please enter a valid phone number.

Second Phone Number (optional)

Please enter a valid phone number.

Email

example@example.com

Second Email (optional)

example@example.com

Should we contact parent/guardian with upcoming team information/opportunities?

YesNoOther

Would you like to add a second Parent/Guardian for communication?

NoYes

Second PARENT/GUARDIAN Contact Name

FIRST NAMESURNAME

Name Preference

If the name you want us to call you is different than legal name (eg. Richard = Rick, Elizabeth = Betty)

Relation to Dancer

Cell Phone Number

Please enter a valid phone number.

Second Phone Number (for emergencies only)

Please enter a valid phone number.

Email

example@example.com

Second Email (optional)

example@example.com

Should we contact parent/guardian with upcoming team information/opportunities?

YesNoOther

Thank you so much for your time! We appreciate having you as part of the Team Canada Dance family! We will contact you with more information about the team(s) that you were awarded a GOLDEN TICKET for.

Please take the time to review your choices and then click 'SUBMIT'

We will receive your registration automatically.

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