Scholarships & Competition Vouchers​
Dupree Dance awards a large number of scholarships and specialty awards at each event.
Both SCHOLARSHIPS and COMPETITION VOUCHERS must be redeemed within 12 months from the date awarded. After this time, they will automatically expire in our system.
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Our goal is to make your registration process VERY easy! All convention half, full and regional Collective scholarship(s) as well as all competition voucher(s) won at each event are tracked on a registrant’s behalf by Dupree Dance. They are connected to the studio or independent profile used to register for the event in which the scholarship/voucher was received. Clients MUST use the same username (email address) on future registrations in order for our system to recognize the convention scholarship and/or competition voucher award(s) won at a past Dupree Dance event.
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CONVENTION SCHOLARSHIPS
All half, full and regional Collective convention scholarships are non-transferable and non-deferrable. They are assigned solely to the named dancer who receives the award. At the next Dupree regional event, be sure to add all dancers who have attended a Dupree Dance event in the past from the stored students in your online dropdown menu option. Once you add a stored student’s name to your convention registration who has not already redeemed his/her scholarship, our system will recognize the winners name and prompt you to select to apply their available scholarship award. Once you select to apply the award, our system will adjust the convention fees accordingly.
If a dancer who won a scholarship under a studio would like to attend any regional Dupree Dance convention on his/her own, they are welcome to do so. In this event, the studio may choose to register them under their studio profile, or the dancer may contact us and we will move their scholarship from the studio profile to an independent profile that allows them to register themselves for convention classes only. If a dancer receives a scholarship at an event where they were independently registered, we will also be happy to move that scholarship under a studio profile per request of the scholarship winner. Keep in mind dancers must be studio registered in order to compete.
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HALF CONVENTION SCHOLARSHIPS: A half convention scholarship may only be redeemed by the dancer who won the award at a Dupree Dance regional event and will cover 50% of the convention tuition registration for the classroom level of choice. A half scholarship award may be used one time only and must be redeemed within 12 months from the awarded date.
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FULL CONVENTION SCHOLARSHIPS: A full convention scholarship may only be redeemed by the dancer who won the award at a Dupree Dance regional event and will cover the full convention tuition for the classroom level of choice. A full scholarship may be used one time only and must be redeemed within 12 months from the awarded date.
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Any dancer who receives a full scholarship award while registered in the Junior, Teen or Senior ballroom at any regional event is also invited to participate in our National Finals Opening Number. The Opening Number experience during our Nationals Finals red-carpet Gala is always an incredible opportunity and only open to Junior, Teen or Senior regional full scholarship winners. Dancers who opt to take advantage of our Opening Number Invite are to email Dupree@DupreeDance.com by/before May 1 (prior to our National Finals) in order for Dupree to formally add them to an attending Opening Number participant list. After this time, Opening Number participants can expect to receive full Opening Number information prior to our National Finals event.
REGIONAL COLLECTIVE SCHOLARSHIPS: A Regional Collective scholarship may be redeemed by the dancer who won the award at our National Finals event and covers the full convention tuition for the classroom level of choice during our extended National Finals Summer Intensive class schedule. A Regional Collective scholarship can be used one time and must be redeemed at the National Finals that follows the regional tour in which the award was won. There is an additional Collective performance opportunity as well as an invitation to audition for our Collective Assistant Company extend to our regional Collective scholarship award winners.
Please visit our Collective Assistant Company page on our website to obtain full information about our Regional Collective scholarship and the additional opportunities it extends during our National Finals event.
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A dancer who wins a Regional Collective Scholarship will provide Dupree Dance their email address at the event shortly after they are awarded. Within 1 week following the event, a Regional Collective scholarship winner can expect to receive an email at the address they provided that verifies their award and allows them to gain access to their personal online Collective profile. This profile will be how we communicate with Collective winners closer to a May 1 ‘participation deadline’ in regards to attendance at our National Finals event. If a Regional Collective winner does not receive a verification email within 1 week following their awarded date, we ask that they please email us at dupree@dupreedance.com.
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PARTNERING AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
We are proud to partner with a number of incredible organizations. In honor of our partnerships, we extend a wide variety of additional awards and scholarships to our both our regional and national convention class attendees. Any unique award(s) or scholarship(s) that are associated with our partnering companies/agencies are not tied to our Dupree Dance online registration system. Winners of these awards much reach out directly to the company/agency in regard to the redemption and/or details of their award. You can visit our Partners Page on our website to obtain additional information.
COMPETITION VOUCHERS
If there are a total of 5 or more regional competition entries in a specific age/division, the 1st place overall high score winner(s) in that category will be awarded a competition voucher. Competition vouchers may be applied to the competition registration for any Dupree Dance Regional or National Finals event within 12 months of the date awarded.
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COMPETITION VOUCHERS are assigned to the studio or independent registration directly during the regional event in which they are awarded. Any competition voucher won under a studio registration will remain under that studio registration’s profile. The only exception to this would be if we received a request directly from the studio Owner/Director approving the transfer of a competition voucher to an independent profile.
Competition vouchers may only be applied towards competition registration and may not be applied to convention registration. The total value of a competition voucher(s) may be split between events if a client chooses to do so during the online registration process. However, the total value must be used within the 12-month period from the date it was awarded and will expire in our system after that time.
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