Let’s talk about the glitter-drenched elephant in the room: competition dance.

It’s high-energy, high-pressure, and high-budget. It comes with long weekends spent in ballrooms that smell faintly of hairspray and tears, trophies that gather dust by July, and an unspoken rule that if your false eyelash stays on, you win.

But what if there were another way? A way to give young dancers incredible opportunities without the burnout, the endless judging, and the hotel bathroom costume change?