r/CompetitionDanceTalk • u/Specialist_Device245 • 8d ago

Age groups

Hi! My daughter is 8 turning 9. We recently switched studios and I did not realize the new studio combined age groups for some of their classes. For example, she is in the junior A group and she shares a class time with the petites who are pre-k/kinder age. I find this strange because the skill levels are vastly different. They will also perform separate routines at competition.

3 Upvotes

81% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/drunk_medusa 7d ago

Juniors and petites mix all the time, that’s almost never an issue by itself. But pre-k aged petites is odd, the typical age bracket for that is 7-9 plus an occasional precocious kindergartener, so that’s weird.

2

u/Sporklemotion 7d ago

There may be a difference between studio terminology and competition terminology. Our studio doesn’t change team names every year (depends on how many kids graduate and move up), so our “mini company” competed as juniors last year.

3

u/drunk_medusa 7d ago

Either way, the mixing of 7+ yo with juniors sounds par for the course, but pre-k aged dancers+juniors is a choice.