Audition Video
Your audition video should be your most recent performance or most recent rehearsal video. Regardless, be sure to submit the video that best represents your or your group’s abilities.
IMPORTANT: THE VIDEO DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO REPRESENT THE PERFORMANCE THAT WILL THEN BE PERFORMED ON STAGE AT WORLD OF DANCE.
Unfortunately we cannot accept dance class videos as audition videos. Entries that include dance class videos will not be accepted.
The application process through audition videos will not apply to the K-Pop Division and K-Pop Crew Division categories.
CATEGORIES COMPETING ON APRIL 26th
CATEGORIES COMPETING ON APRIL 27th
There are no dance genre distinctions in the categories (except for K-Pop), World of Dance is open to all dance styles, get on stage and express yourself in the way you love the most.
In the event that there is too low a number of entries in some categories, the management reserves the right to merge multiple categories into a single category.
For example: the Junior A Division and Junior B Division and Junior C Division categories could be merged into a single category called Junior Division in case there are not enough entries in the two categories separately. The same goes for the Junior Studio Division and Adult Studio Division categories which could be merged into a single category called Studio Division.
The management reserves the right to move a participant or a participating crew from the category requested during registration to a more suitable category in compliance with the subdivision criteria established in this regulation.
Please note: The only categories that guarantee an invitation to the WOD SUMMIT in California are the Junior Team Division and the Team Division.
All crews of 5 or more members will have the opportunity to compete at the World of Dance Summit regardless of their final ranking or score on the individual qualifier event they are competing in.
The World of Dance Summit will feature 3 rounds of competition in both the “Junior Team Division” and “Team Division” categories before the event concludes with the World of Dance Finals Competition.
The path followed during the World of Dance Summit Competition will be as follows:
How a crew places in their country’s qualifiers will determine which round they will be eligible to compete in at the World of Dance Summit Competition.
Teams of 5 or more dancers from the Junior Team Division, Team Division or any additional category approved during a national qualifier will be invited to compete in a specific round based on the following criteria:
Teams may also be placed into a specific round in either the Team Division, or Jr. Team Division per World of Dance discretion. Teams may attend additional qualifying events to attain a higher bell curve score.
World of Dance Summit Competition placement invites can be extended to two years if teams are unable to secure visa application appointments within a given competition season.
WORLD OF DANCE SUMMIT COMPETITION PROCESS AND ADVANCEMENT
World of Dance Finals Competition: Finals competition with top 10 Jr. Team Division teams and top 10 Team Division teams from Summit Competition. Top 3 get a title, trophy, and cash prize
Yes, as long as the artist has promoted K-Pop in South Korea. (Songs from international artists such as XG will be eligible as long as they have promoted in South Korea on TV programs such as Mnet etc.)
Yes.
(Backup dancers will be considered in the total count. For example, if a duo has three backup dancers with a total of 5 people, they will not be able to access the K-Pop Division but only the K-Pop Crew Division.)
For any additional request please write an email to italy@worldofdance.com
To make the registration request, simply click on the appropriate link within https://linktr.ee/woditaly and fill it in in all its parts. Once you have completed the registration request, you will have to wait a few days to receive the response via email.
Once you have been accepted to compete, you will need to:
Registration Requirements
pay maximum attention when completing it.
In the event that the age of your dancers does not fall within the category chosen during registration, this will lead to the disqualification of your group.
If you bring multiple crews and your dancers dance multiple times, they will pay a registration fee for each performance, also please let us know so that we can draw up the lineup correctly with respect for your crews and your dancers.
Payment Requirements
The registration costs for the World of Dance Rome 2025 categories are as follows:
K-POP DIVISION
– Full Price 40 euro
– Early Birds 40 euro
K-POP CREW DIVISION
– Full Price 40 euro
– Early Birds 40 euro
JUNIOR A/B/C DIVISION
– Full Price 55 euro
– Early Birds 50 euro
JUNIOR TEAM DIVISION
– Full Price 50 euro
– Early Birds 45 euro
JUNIOR STUDIO DIVISION
– Full Price 40 euro
– Early Birds 35 euro
ADULT STUDIO DIVISION
– Full Price 40 euro
– Early Birds 35 euro
UPPER DIVISION
– Full Price 55 euro
– Early Birds 50 euro
TEAM DIVISION
– Full Price 50 euro
– Early Birds 45 euro
ATTENTION: EARLY BIRDS includes all participants who register and pay by January 31, 2025.
Only crews participating in the K-Pop Crew Division, Junior Team Division, Junior Studio Division, Studio Division and Team Division categories will be entitled to 1 single choreographer pass.
Registration must be confirmed with payment within one week of receiving the acceptance email under penalty of cancellation of the registration itself.
To complete the registration process, you must send the music no later than April 20th, 2025. All music must be prepared in mp3 format at 320 kbps and sent to italy@worldofdance.com.
Email subject: Dancer or Crew name – name of the event [es. “My crew – WODRM25 ”]
Music Screening Process
Once your group submits music, the World of Dance team will review it to ensure it meets standards. No swearing or offensive language is permitted. World of Dance is a family event and all music will need to be cleaned up.
ATTENTION: Music analysis will only take place if the music is sent by April 20th, 2025. All music received after this date will not be analyzed. If your group is asked to clean up the music more than twice, they may be disqualified from the event.
MAXIMUM PERMITTED LENgTH OF MUSIC FOR ALL CATEGORIES
It is in no way permitted to exceed these durations.
The choreographer will still have to bring with him (on the day of the event) a USB stick with a copy of the same music. The music contained in the USB stick must necessarily be the same one approved by the World of Dance team. This copy will be requested ONLY IF there are problems with the music received via email.
In the event that the music on the stick is different from the one approved, the crew will no longer be able to carry out the performance and will be prevented from participating in the World of Dance in the future. Don’t try to elude the rules!
To prepare you for your performance we will send you a pdf presentation a few days before the event. The presentation will include: the times of the day, crew check-in, sample jury sheet and many other essential information for participating in the event.
No performance schedules will be communicated in advance of the event date.
Curious to know how voting works? For each event the designated jury will decide the votes of the crews. The jury will be composed as follows:
All judges will meet the eligibility, training, skill level and requirements established for a World of Dance event.
As regards the JUNIOR DIVISION A/B/C, JUNIOR TEAM DIVISION, JUNIOR STUDIO DIVISION, ADULT STUDIO DIVISION, UPPER DIVISION, and TEAM DIVISION categories, all judges will follow the following voting criteria
As regards the K-POP DIVISION and K-POP CREW DIVISION categories, all judges will follow the following voting criteria
ATTENTION:
Esempio: Giudice 1 = 82 | Giudice 2 = 91 | Giudice 3 = 78
Giudice 1 + Giudice 2 + Giudice 3 = 82 + 91 + 78 = 251 / 3 (numero giudici) = 83,33 Voto finale.
Esempio: Giudice 1 = 74 | Giudice 2 = 80 | Giudice 3 = 85 | Giudice 4 = 78 | Giudice 5 = 68
Vengono scartati i voti del Giudice 3 (voto più alto) e del Giudice 5 (voto più basso) e viene calcolato il voto finale nel seguente modo:
Giudice 1 + Giudice 2 + Giudice 4 = 74 + 80 + 78 = 232 / 3 (numero giudici) = 77,33 Voto finale
DEDUCTIONS
Venue / Staging
The dimensions of the stage will be approximately 16×10 meters with 2 wings per side. Other questions can be asked to the event manager by writing to italy@worldofdance.com.
Due to the nature of the location and the number of participants it will be almost impossible to provide private dressing rooms to the crews, however they will have ample space available to rehearse and prepare before the performance.
We remind you that all crews will be responsible for their own objects, bags and clothing.
The location, World of Dance staff and all people working on the event will not be held responsible for losses or any theft or damage to items left unattended.
Props
Do you have props? They will have to go through our approval process. World of Dance staff will need to approve all props, please email us at italy@worldofdance.com to request approval. All objects must be fireproof and must not cause damage to the stage in any way. The use of props not approved in advance will not be permitted.
Tech: Due to a very tight schedule, stage rehearsals will not be allowed.
World of Dance will hold an awards ceremony at the end of each day of competition for all categories of that day.
Winners will receive event trophies for first, second and third place. In addition, the top finishers in each category will receive a prize:
CATEGORIES FOR 26th APRILE 2025
CATEGORIES FOR 27th APRILE 2025
Prizes will be paid within 60 days of the event itself.
Furthermore, in each category there will be 3 special prizes: Best Theme, Best Costume, Crowd Favorite.
or anything not expressly provided for by the regulation you can send an email to italy@worldofdance.com for any clarifications.
