Competition & Performance Teams

JUST DANCE: COMPETITION & PERFORMANCE TEAMS

JUST DANCE!

Nationally Awarded Competition & Performance Teams

Just Dance! is a Charleston dance competition and performance dance team based at Charleston Dance Center. With a variety of teams tailored to accommodate dancers with varying levels of commitment, skills, and backgrounds, Just Dance! offers an exceptional platform for all.

Explore the boundless opportunities awaiting you at Just Dance!

JUST DANCE! AT CHARLESTON DANCE CENTER

Our Teams

Just Dance! Company

Just Dance! Company is Charleston Dance Center’s most elite competition level. Our dancers, age 5 to 18, compete across the country at regional and national competitions and conventions. Requirements increase with the dancer’s age and ability levels. Currently, Just Dance! Company offers five teams: Mini Mini, Mini, Petite, Junior, and Senior.

Just Dance! Collective is also a Charleston Dance Center competition team. Our dancers, ranging in age from 8-18, compete and perform locally. Collective dancers receive an equally high level of training, but their commitments are more flexible, allowing them to participate in other activities in addition to dance.

Just Dance! Collective

Just Dance! KREW

JD KREW is for dancers age 5-18 and is a hip hop performance team with just two required classes per week. This is a perfect option for dancers who want the opportunity to continuously perform and prefer to focus on hip hop.

Just Dance! Mini Mini Team is for dancers age 5-7 and offers a great introduction to competition dance because dancers only compete in one competition dance per year and there are just three required classes.

Just Dance! Mini Minis

Just Dance! Tiny Tots

Just Dance! Tiny Tots Team has an average age of 4.5. These dancers have already completed one year at Charleston Dance Center and were invited to be part of the Tiny Tots Team. Tiny Tots attend one Charleston-area competition each year and take two required classes.

JUST DANCE! AT CHARLESTON DANCE CENTER

Our Teams

Just Dance! Company

Just Dance! Company is Charleston Dance Center’s most elite competition level. Our dancers, age 5 to 18, compete across the country at regional and national competitions and conventions. Requirements increase with the dancer’s age and ability levels. Currently, Just Dance! Company offers five teams: Mini Mini, Mini, Petite, Junior, and Senior.

Just Dance! Collective

Just Dance! Collective is also a Charleston Dance Center competition team. Our dancers, ranging in age from 8-18, compete and perform locally. Collective dancers receive an equally high level of training, but their commitments are more flexible, allowing them to participate in other activities in addition to dance.

Just Dance! KREW

JD KREW is for dancers age 5-18 and is a hip hop performance team with just two required classes per week. This is a perfect option for dancers who want the opportunity to continuously perform and prefer to focus on hip hop.

Just Dance! Mini Minis

Just Dance! Mini Mini Team is for dancers age 5-7 and offers a great introduction to competition dance because dancers only compete in one competition dance per year and there are just three required classes.

Just Dance! Tiny Tots

Just Dance! Tiny Tots Team has an average age of 4.5. These dancers have already completed one year at Charleston Dance Center and were invited to be part of the Tiny Tots Team. Tiny Tots attend one Charleston-area competition each year and take two required classes.

Just Dance! History

The Just Dance! competition dance team was founded in 2000 under the direction of Buffi Wade. Since then, the company has continuously grown. In 2016, Lindsey Gentry was named the co-director of Just Dance! Company. In 2019, Just Dance! Collective was founded by Buffi and Vanessa Henry, and in 2023 Just Dance! KREW was founded.

In the past 20 years, Just Dance! teams have participated in the Performer’s Showcase at the Broadway Dance Center in New York City, provided the children’s cast for the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker and Charleston Christmas Special, participated in a dance pilot for MTV, and performed in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Our Philosophy

We are focused on training well-rounded dancers who perform age-appropriate skills and routines. Our goal is for all our dancers to reach their full potential.

Although Just Dance! competition teams and dancers have won dozens of national titles, winning isn’t everything. It is far more important to us that our dancers build their self esteem, confidence, and are humble and polite. As much as we work with our dancers on technique, we spend the same amount of time teaching them backstage etiquette and the importance of treating all competitors with respect and kindness.

The skills our dancers learn will help them to be successful in anything they do – whether they strive to dance professionally or become a lawyer. They are learning how to manage their time and understand the results that hard work and discipline can bring. They are learning how to work as a team as well as building lifelong friendships.

Want to become a Just Dancer?

Each year, Auditions for our Just Dance! Teams are held in mid-summer. Be on the lookout for the 2024 Audition Details coming soon!

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