General Judging Criteria (0-10 points)

General Criteria (applies to all styles)

Image: costume, makeup, hairstyle, as well as the correspondence of your stage image to the idea and mood of the performance & musical accompaniment.

Acting skills: Your ability to influence the audience emotionally and connect with them through facial expressions, gestures, body movement, and energy. The ability to convey the emotions inherent in the concept of the performance and the musical accompaniment through choreography.
Overall Dance Technique: the performer's basic dance technique level: body lines, flexibility, splits, amplitude, body, leg, and arm positions, posture, overall coordination, etc.
Choreography: the level of the performer's dance technique - body lines, flexibility, splits, amplitude, position of the body , legs and arms, musicality of performance, mastery of the technique of isolation, speed control, dance vibe etc. Originality of the idea, complexity of choreographic vocabulary, complexity of musicality, dance pattern, filling the stage space with movement.
General trick technique: level of mastery of the stunt part of Exotic Pole Dance, both at the height of the pole and at the floor level, in the stalls - racks, flips, wheels, etc. Speed, amplitude, purity of performing stunt elements and combinations, as well as the original style, complexity, dance ability and combination of stunt and choreographic elements.
Overall impression: evaluates the entire performance as а whole, the totality of all the details and nuances of the performance.

Special Judging Criteria (0-5 points)

Flow

Flow ownership
Leg work technique
Speed control technique
Flow technique in tricks (pole / floor)
Musicality
WOW effect

Hard

Difficulty of tricks (floor / pole)
Originality of Tricks
The harmony of the tricks and choreographic component
Entries and exits into trick combinations or trick elements
Musicality
Wow effect

Theater

The idea of production
Props scenery set design
The harmony of choreography and theatrical component
Combination of music, idea and choreography
Musicality
Wow effect

Old School

Sensuality of body plastic
Sensuality of facial expressions and gestures
Floor dance
Working with stage costumes / costume details / removing costume details
Musicality
Wow effect

Duets / Groups

Synchronicity
Duet / Group dance interaction
Difficulty and originality of duet / group tricks
Dance patterns and movement
Musicality
Wow effect

Floorwork

The originality of the choreography
The complexity and originality of the sedentary tricks elements
Angles in dance
Sliding floor technique
Musicality
Wow effect

Erotic

Eroticism in body plastic
Eroticism in facial expressions and gestures
Striptease: removal of clothing as part of an erotic performance
Provocation
Musicality
Wow effect

* In this category only, participants are required to remove at lease one piece of clothing & upper body nudity even without pasties is allowed.

New Wave

The originality of choreography
Harmony of vocabulary of other dance styles
The complexity of dance
Choreography of trick combinations

Battles

The originality of the choreography
Harmony of vocabulary of other dance styles
The complexity of dance vocabulary
Musicality

Legacy 40+

As this is an amateur/intermediate category without a specific style requirement, performances will be evaluated based on the 6 basic judging criteria:

Image
Acting skills
Overall Dance Technique
Choreography
General trick technique
Overall impression

For a detailed explanation of each criterion, please refer to the descriptions at the top of the page.