• Do you feel like your child could achieve MORE in their dance training?  
• Do you see a bigger future for your child?
• Does your child want to be a PERFORMER?
• Is your child's passion hip hop dance and entertainment?
• ​Are you ready to watch your child work HARD, achieve skill, and seek their full potential?

THIS IS WHERE THEY CAN DO THAT.

EDC believes in giving well-rounded training to all of our dancers but the reason we offer a competitive program is a simple one.  We want to give these dancers with their own hopes and dreams opportunities outside of what our small community can offer.  Competition motivates, challenges, inspires, and advances their learning experience.  These competitions are here to help them recognize the growth in themselves as an individual dancer and as a team dancer and not necessarily to create tension or a divide between them and other dance groups.  The overall experience celebrates their shared love of dance and creates unity and a bond that is irreplaceable.  

These teams will travel to three regional competitions a season. These classes are for the committed dancer looking to advance themselves as a performer and be pushed to new heights.  Dancers have high standards to meet and maintain to be in these classes and must audition or be recommended by a teacher to gain admittance.  These classes should be taken seriously and dancers are expected to practice for these classes outside of the studio and come in every week prepared for new material.  

If a team or a solo dancer qualifies for Nationals they may continue on to compete at Nationals that summer following our Winter/Spring season. 

How do I join the team?

We have switched to an audition process! Dancers who register to audition will receive a video to learn short audition dance that will be reviewed at the auditions and then performed multiple times in small groups. We had our first official audition with judges this past June and had an excellent turn out of dancers showcasing their skills and love for dance. Look out for audition information for our 2026-2027 in the Spring of 2026. 

2023 Competition Results

There is SO MUCH more that these dancers get out of going to competition besides trophies and awards BUT I do believe they all deserve the recognition for their wonderful achievements that we are so proud of!

NATIONALS

We had our first TRDC NATIONALS adventure this summer. 5 of our dancers were invited to be a part of The Royal Dance Competition’s National Team ‘The Reign’. 3 of them took the leap at this opportunity and ventured to Cape Cod this past week and had an incredible time and performed their hearts out. They had such an awesome time I’m sure we will be back again in the future! I’m so so proud of them and all they accomplished this last season including these amazing accolades from this week:

156 Eliana
Diamond
Super Stylized Judges Choice Award

199 Madi
Blue Diamond
3rd Place
Full Scholarship to Convention

281 Eli
Motivated Mover Judges Choice - Mature quality of movement, texture, Initiation, control
Blue Diamond
8th Place
1st Place Photogenic Contest Ages 13+

588 Eli’s Improv - 3 out of 3 crowns

And all 3 of them put on an IMPRESSIVE performance with The Reign!!

TakeCenterstage Dance Challenge NATIONALS
Alysia was chosen to be a part of their Nationals Team at a regional event and performed a wonderful routine with all the other dancers from all over the country
197 In This Shirt High Gold

ICONIC
TCDC: High Platinum
TRDC: Blue Diamond
Filled with Fire Judge’s Choice Award
1st Place in Category
Top Scoring Routine of all Non-Solo Novice and Intermediate dances - highest of 150 routines

DYNASTY
TCDC: High Gold
4th Place
TRDC: Diamond
3rd Place
“Burnin Up The Stage” Judge’s Choice Award

ELITE Tap
TCDC: Platinum
TRDC: Ruby
2nd Place
“Terrific Taps” Judge’s Award

LEGACY
TCDC: Platinum
4th Place
TRDC: Diamond

GEMZ JAZZ TEAM
TCDC: Platinum
6th Place
TRDC: Diamond

HAILEY & YAZMINE
TCDC: High Gold
5th Place
TRDC: Diamond

MADDIE & SIERRA
TCDC: High Gold
Top 10
TRDC: Diamond

TAYA & KYLEE
TCDC: Platinum
2nd place in category
TRDC: Diamond

ELI
TCDC: High Platinum
1st Place in Category
“G.O.A.T of Hip Hop” Judge’s Choice Award
TRDC: Blue Diamond
1st Place out of 44
“Future Starboy” Judge’s Choice Award Invitation to The Reign National Team

GEORGIA
TCDC: Platinum
TRDC: Diamond

CLAIRE
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Diamond
2nd Place in Category

SYDNEY
TCDC: High Platinum
2nd Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond
6th Place out of 44
Invitation to The Reign National Team

AUBREE
TCDC: Platinum 5th Place in Category
TRDC:Diamond
9th out of 42 and
Invitation to The Reign National Team

BRYNN
TCDC: Platinum 2nd Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond 3rd Place in Category

OLIVE
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Diamond
6th Place in Category
Perfectly Passionate Judge’s Choice Award

MADI
TCDC: Platinum 5th Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond
1st out of 22
Royal Regency Award - favorite performer of the session - beauty and timelessness of royalty
Invitation to The Reign National Team

HAILEY
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Ruby

DEANNA
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Diamond and 4th in Category

ELIANA
TCDC: Platinum and 2nd Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond, 7th Place (out of 42) and “Beat Master” Judge’s Choice Award and Invitation to The Reign National team

MEGAN
TCDC: Platinum and 2nd Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond, 4th (out of 22), and “Get Groovy” Judge’s Choice Award

AVALEE
TCDC: Platinum and 1st Place in Category
TRDC: Diamond, 1st Place in Category and “Superstar” Judge’s Choice Award

ALYSIA
TCDC: High Gold and Nationals Team Scholarship and Invitation
TRDC: Platinum

NADIA
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Platinum

EMMA
TCDC: High Gold
TRDC: Platinum

2022 Competition Results

This past season Empire Dance Company brought 15 routines to the BREAKOUT and ROYAL stage and I could not be more proud of them! After a couple of odd competition seasons because of COVID it was amazing to get back to the exciting competition experience we all know and love. Each dancer put in hours of work in the studio and tried with every ounce of their hearts to perform their best and you could feel it when they took the stage. I am going to list the results and the awards they took home below, and although the list is impressive, competition is so much more than awards! Its about the full experience: the feeling of being so scared but doing it anyway; the feeling of being needed by your teammates; pushing past what you thought your limit was; the rush of being under the bright lights and hearing your music blast through the speakers; the excitement of hearing the judge’s call your name; watching the other dancers from other studios and coming back more inspired than ever; wanting something so bad and working as hard as you can to achieve it; and being grateful for your support system to give you this opportunity and being humbled that you get to do what you love today thanks to them! All of this builds their confidence to grow to become better dancers, performers, teammates and eventually well-rounded adults. I’m so proud of these dancers’ performances and so happy they were able to take their dance to the next level by pushing themselves to do their best.

BREAKOUT RESULTS:
“Can’t Stop Jiggin’” Platinum; 1st Place in Category
“Keep It Cute” High Gold; 3rd Place in Category
“Domino” Platinum; 3rd Place in Category
“Layers” Platinum; 4th Place in Category
“Turning Page” High Gold; 5th Place in Category
“I Hope You Dance” Platinum; 3rd Place in Category
“Dynasty” Platinum; 4th Place in Category
“Legacy” Platinum; 1st place in Category
“Gemz” Platinum; 1st Place in Category; “Outstanding Precision” Special Award
“Elite” Platinum; 1st Place in Category; Judge’s Choice Award: “Squad Goals”
“Moment For Life” Platinum’ 1st place in Category
“Venom” Platinum; 1st Place in Category
“Iconic” Platinum; 1st Place in Category, BREAKOUT 13+ Group Award
“Take Your Pick” Platinum; 1st Place in Category; Judge’s Choice Award: “Get it Get it DIVAS”
“Nobody’s Love” High Gold

ROYAL RESULTS:

​I Hope You Dance: 
Ruby 
“Best Smiling Superstar” Judge’s Choice Award 
3rd Place

Dynasty:
 “Dynamic Dancers” Judge’s Choice  
Ruby
3rd Place 

Can’t Stop Jiggin:
“Super Stylized” Judge’s Choice Award
Diamond
9th out of 36

Keep It Cute
Diamond 

329 Layers 
Diamond 1st Place 

344: Domino 
Great Isolations Judge’s Choice 
Diamond 
6th Place out of 33

352: Turning Page
Ruby
Pretty Pictures Judge’s Choice Award

404: Nobody’s Love
Ruby

409 Moment For Life
Diamond
3rd Place 

433 Legacy 
When The Beat Drop Judge’s Choice Award 
Diamond 
3rd Place 

443 Gemz 
Ruby 
Great Foundation Judge’s Choice Award 

Georgia Improv 
Diamond 

Eli Improv
Blue Diamond 
2nd Place
Dancer on Fire Judge’s Award 

Studio Commitment Award

467 Elite 
Diamond 
1st Place
In The Pocket Judge’s Choice Award 

516 Take Your Pick
Diamond
1st Place  

517 Venom
Diamond
1st Place  

538 Iconic 
Burning Up the Stage Judge’s Choice Award 
Diamond 
1st Place