Industry Dance Awards

2021 Official Industry Dance Awards Nominees – COMPLETE LIST

Congratulations to all the 2021 Industry Dance Awards Nominees! What an incredible and exciting year of dance. We are proud to officially announce the 2021 Nominees. Starting September 20, 2021 it’s time to get the VOTE out for your favorite. Help decide this year’s winners for the Most Prestigious Dance Event of the Year! Coming to you via a LIVE Virtual Presentation – mark your calendars for October 23, 2021!

Voting dates and details:

All voting takes place online. http://www.industrydanceawards.com

Monday – September 20, 2021 – Friday – September 24, 2021 – Online Voting Outstanding Performances – VOTING OPENS 9/20 @ 6AM PST / CLOSES 9/24 @ 9PM PST

Monday – September 20, 2021 – Friday – September 24, 2021 – Online Voting for the Preliminary People’s Choice Nominee to represent each Sponsored Competition – VOTING OPENS 9/20 @ 6AM PST / CLOSES 9/24 @ 9PM PST

Monday – September 27 – Friday – October 1, 2021 – FINAL Online Voting for the 2021 People’s Choice Winner – VOTING OPENS 9/27 @ 6AM PST / CLOSES 10/1 @ 9PM PST

Saturday – October 23, 2021 – Industry Dance Awards – VIRTUAL PLATFORM & EVENT – NO LIVE  AUDIENCE. Our show will be live streamed via the IDA website. Be sure to tune in with all your friends and family for this incredible event.

Drumroll Please……

BEST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE JAZZ NOMINEES
APPLAUSE That Stuff Haja Dance Company Newport, MI
BEYOND THE STARS Strut Out Body Language Dance Center Ewing, NJ
ENERGY That’s Life Noretta Dunworth School of Dance Dearborn, MI
GROOVE March On Rage Box Contemporary Dance Center Forest Hill, MD
KAR Tunnel Rock City Dance Center Little Rock, AR
MASQUERADE Cuz I Love You Spotlight Productions Egan, MN
RAINBOW That Man The Rage Entertainment Complex Granada Hills, CA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Don’t Hit My Line Dance Dimensions Longmont, CO
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Gaga Center Stage Dance & Theatre School East Brunswick, NJ
BEST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE LYRICAL/MODERN/CONTEMPORARY NOMINEES
APPLAUSE Watermark Footnotes Dance & Acrobatic Studio Roswell, GA
BEYOND THE STARS Hummingbirds The Fuse Binghamton, NY
ENERGY Till Now Endeavor School of the Arts Costa Mesa, CA
GROOVE Caught On Your Sleeve Epic Dance Company Flemington, NJ
KAR Pull Myself Together Republic Edge Dance Cypress, TX
MASQUERADE Uninvited Woodbury Dance Center Woodbury, MN
RAINBOW Ellis Dance Dynamics Little Rock, AR
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Fate Playing Kitty Lee Dance Omaha, NE
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Till It Happens To You TURN IT OUT Dance Academy Bellaire, OH
BEST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE TAP NOMINEES
APPLAUSE Green Mountain State Academy of Dance & Fine Arts Mooresville, NC
BEYOND THE STARS Rooftop Gracie’s Guys and Gals Dance Studio Hollywood, MD
ENERGY New Recording 1 Nolte Academy of Dance Coralville, IA
GROOVE TapTations Jenny’s Dance Centre Libertyville, IL
KAR Look At Me Now Murrieta Dance Project Murrieta, CA
MASQUERADE Hold Back the River Premiere Dance Academy Prior Lake, MN
RAINBOW Smooth Criminal The Element Dance Center La Mesa, CA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Trickle Triple Threat Performing Arts Livermore, CA
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Piano Man Dance City and the Arts Southington, CT
BEST OUTSTANDING MUSICAL THEATRE/NOVELTY/CHARACTER NOMINEES
APPLAUSE Cell Block Tango Focus Performing Arts Studio Lake Mary, FL
BEYOND THE STARS Too Darn Hot Centre Pointe Performing Arts Perry Hall, MD
ENERGY Steam Heat Envisions Dance Company of Naperville Naperville, IL
GROOVE What I Was Born to Do CSOD Dance Empire Spring Hill, FL
KAR I Got Rhythm Temecula Dance Company Temecula, CA
MASQUERADE Macavity Le Dance Studio Overland Park, KS
RAINBOW Bohemian Rhapsody Midwest Elite Dance Center Amelia, OH
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Cell Block Tango The Dance Vault Magnolia, TX
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Lazy River Downtown Dance Factory New York, NY
BEST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE HIP HOP NOMINEES
APPLAUSE The Xtreme Tik Toks Xtreme Dance Force Naperville, IL
BEYOND THE STARS Super Fly Backstage Dance Studio Columbia, MD
ENERGY Calor Forever Dance Zephyr Cove, NV
GROOVE You Ready Evolve Dance Project Las Vegas, NV
KAR Dababy Miss Donna’s School of Dance Waxhaw, NC
MASQUERADE Oh We Lit Lit Dance Connection Performing Arts Center St Peters, MO
RAINBOW Ninja Above The Barre Berea, OH
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP The Black Parade DNA Dance Collective Roseville, CA
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE I Betchu Won’t Lisa’s Dance Spot Austell, GA
BEST OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OPEN/BALLET/ACRO NOMINEES
APPLAUSE Pep Talk The Dance Collective Ocala, FL
BEYOND THE STARS We Have it All Ultimate Dance Complex McMurray, PA
ENERGY Proceed with Caution Extensions Dance Studio Chicago, IL
GROOVE Blue Monday Artistic Fusion Dance Academy Thornton, CO
KAR Troy Z Company Arts Monroe, OH
MASQUERADE Foolish Games Yackel Dance Studio Woodbury, MN
RAINBOW So Many Signs Intensity Dance Academy Valencia, PA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Mary Mary Infinity Dance Brigham City, UT
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Won’t Complain The Pulse Performing Arts Center Kansas City, MO
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR NOMINEES
APPLAUSE Waves of Grief Studio G Dance Center Pittsburgh, PA
BEYOND THE STARS Wait and Dream The Susten Dance Collective Red Bank, NJ
ENERGY When The Ship Goes Down San Clemente Dance & Performing Arts Center San Clemente, CA
GROOVE Brainwashed Dance Expressions by Erica Irwin, PA
KAR Waves Triple Threat Dance Company Marion, CT
MASQUERADE Cleopatra In New York Woodbury Dance Center Woodbury, MN
RAINBOW Sin In Your Skin Adage Dance Center Pomona, CA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Asturias Impact Dance Mesa, AZ
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Passionfruit Artistic Designs Dance Company Liverpool, NY
BEST PERFORMANCE OF 2021 NOMINEES
APPLAUSE You Be You Prestige Dance Institute Garner, NC
BEYOND THE STARS Body Once Upon a Dream Wadsworth, OH
ENERGY Do You Chavarria Institute of the Arts Irvine, CA
GROOVE The Always Left Behind Tiffany’s Performing Arts Studio Republic, MO
KAR In Case You Don’t Live Forever Ultimate Dance Complex McMurray, PA
MASQUERADE Lovestoned The Dancers EDGE Hiawatha, IA
RAINBOW This Is Why I Love You North Shore Dance Huntington Station, NY
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Vae Victis Columbia Performing Arts Centre Columbia, MO
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Brother Rising Stars Dance Academy North Providence, RI

PRELIMINARY PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Monday – September 20, 2021 – Friday – September 24, 2021 – Online Voting for the Preliminary People’s Choice Nominee to represent each Sponsored Competition – VOTING OPENS 9/20 @ 6AM PST / CLOSES 9/24 @ 9PM PST

Monday – September 27 – Friday – October 1, 2021 – FINAL Online Voting for the 2021 People’s Choice Winner – VOTING OPENS 9/27 @ 6AM PST / CLOSES 10/1 @ 9PM PST

APPLAUSE TALENT
APPLAUSE TALENT Someone Like You K2 Studios Corona, CA
APPLAUSE TALENT A’Pale Spotlight Dance Academy Miami, FL
APPLAUSE TALENT Kissing You Piazza Dance Co. Northville, MI
APPLAUSE TALENT What Might Have Been Dance Dynamics Memphis Memphis, TN
APPLAUSE TALENT Oh Yeah Style Dance Academy Franklin, IN
BEYOND THE STARS
BEYOND THE STARS Survivor One Broadway Dance Academy Hershey, PA
BEYOND THE STARS Long Way Down Main Line Dance Company Wayne, PA
BEYOND THE STARS After Hours The Dance Factory Topeka, KS
BEYOND THE STARS Voyage On Moving Dance Company Ponchatoula, LA
BEYOND THE STARS Ready to Rock K J Dance Theater Massapequa Park, NY
ENERGY
ENERGY First Burn Jazz N Taps Dance Studio Livermore, CA
ENERGY Hotel California Rhythm Dance Center Saline, MI
ENERGY To This Day Expression Dance Studio Westmont, IL
ENERGY Working In The Coal Mine Dance Express Maria’s School of Dance Fowlerville, MI
ENERGY One Question Soul2Sole Dance Inc. Highland Park, IL
GROOVE
GROOVE Parachutes Gayle’s DancePhase Wixom, MI
GROOVE Walk For Me 8 Count Performing Arts Academy Akron, OH
GROOVE Minnesota Boca Dance Studio Boca Raton, FL
GROOVE Long Way Down Eva Moore’s Performing Arts Center Pleasant Hill, MO
GROOVE Wicked Game Laura Cote School of Dance Wilmot, WI
KAR
KAR Home Again Boni’s En Toure The Woodlands, TX
KAR Raining On Prom Night Extravadance & Tumble Kernersville, NC
KAR I Know All What I Do Melissa Hoffman Dance Center Hudson, NH
KAR Eliza Talent Factory Chino, CA
KAR A Story So Old The Dance Complex Maple Grove, MN
MASQUERADE
MASQUERADE Ballroom Blitz Studio 4 Burnsville, MN
MASQUERADE Spectacular Spectacular The Pulse Performing Arts Center Kansas City, MO
MASQUERADE Twilight Dance Force Clarksville, TN
MASQUERADE Pose Stage Door Studios Sarasota, FL
MASQUERADE Wolves Summit Dance Shoppe Plymouth, MN
RAINBOW
RAINBOW Fast Car Ann’s PAC Mount Vernon, MO
RAINBOW Piano Man Dance Unlimited Colorado Springs, CO
RAINBOW Mama This One’s For You Gotta Dance Academy Simi Valley, CA
RAINBOW Falling Inspire Dance Complex Corona, CA
RAINBOW Falling Xtreme Force Dance Company Livermore, CA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Just Dance Fusion Dance Center O’Fallon, MO
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP The Glamazon Rainforest Ankeny Dance & Performing Arts Ankeny, IA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Grease is the Word Storm Dance Alliance Oswego, IL
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP When You’re an Addams Pacific Dance Irvine, CA
SPOTLIGHT DANCE CUP Teen Beach Movie Studio 89 Dance Company Williston, ND
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Careless Dance Starz Academy Rahway, NJ
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Anything Goes Centreville Dance Theatre Centreville, VA
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE My Way The Dance Project Bristol, CT
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Gravity Connecticut Dance Academy Collinsville, CT
TURN IT UP DANCE CHALLENGE Next Time I’ll Be Braver The Susten Dance Collective Red Bank, NJ