FAQ

The International Competitive Dancer Registry (ICDR) is a secure online registry for youth who participate in competitive dance built to protect dancers by verifying, and anonymizing sensitive dancer data while simultaneously safeguarding their media. With time-saving tools like waiver management, the registry empowers studios and competitions to enhance industry-wide safety, fairness, pride, and opportunity.

The ICDR was built to give dancers and their guardians control over their identity, their performances, and their history.

ICDR secures dancer media through two-step authentication, unique member IDs, and verified dancer details, ensuring that only authorized families can access and manage their media. Media can be shared safely by adding additional guardians. Current industry-wide redemption access codes are unsafe and leave dancers vulnerable to misuse and exploitation.

The ICDR simplifies the waiver process by offering a centralized waiver management system where guardians can easily sign all necessary waivers from one home platform. Studios can track which dancer families have completed their waivers, and competitions can quickly verify overall waiver status.  By adding more time to sign and alleviating the endless back and forth we are eliminating unnecessary stress and risk for all involved.

Studios, competitions, and dancers that register before August 31, 2025, will receive Founding Member status and the following benefits:

• Free dancer registration for the 2025 season
• Exclusive discounts and benefits for their dance families for subsequent seasons
• Press opportunities and inclusion in our ICDR campaign highlights
• Opportunities to collaborate with our team on the development of tools and resources
• Founding Members’ early commitment to this important platform is showcased by displaying the ICDR Founding Member icon on their website and media

The ICDR will be launching in the 2025 competitive season with a more robust version to be released the following season.

Download the ICDR-Registered logo from our Media Page.

ICDR simplifies waiver management, secures cherished dancer media, verifies dancers and their guardians, and provides an added layer of online safety—all without cost to competitions, ever.

First, thank you for showing interest in improving the safety of the competitive experience. Second, simply contact us to set up your registration.

There is never a registration fee for competitions. We are a service determined to empower our competition partners with the tools they need to produce safe, celebratory, and fair events.

Founding Members competitions will be at the centre of our press opportunities for our launch year. Positioning your competition as an advocate for dancer safety will, in turn, produce a much happier and supported clientele in a busy market where it’s tough to stand out. Additional benefits include preferred future registration rates for their participating dance families, scholarships, and support workshops.

Yes, you can make ICDR a mandatory step in your registration process, ensuring a streamlined, safe, and more transparent experience.

Competitions can use their own season-wide or per-event waiver. ICDR ensures all waivers are securely stored and accessible for families and directors with a forever home and familiar process, reducing stress and delays for everyone.

ICDR ensures waivers are signed ahead of time, reducing last-minute issues. Competitions, studios, and parents can verify compliance in real time. In the case that a waiver has not been signed, simply log in to your account on-site and show them once completed. Paper copies on site should be a last resort at all times.

No, competitions will still have full access to dancer media per their agreements, but ICDR enhances security and parental control.

The ICDR allows studios to register their dancers into their competitive ICDR team roster to facilitate easier waiver management with their dance families and a secure tool for redeeming media.

We centralize waiver management, automatically linking families to required forms and streamlining registration verification with more time and less back and forth to get the signatures needed to compete. We aim to create a world where directors can easily say to their entire competitive team: “Everything you need is on your ICDR account.”

As a dance studio, there is no fee to become ICDR-registered.

To become a registered ICDR studio, go to Sign Up and enter your information. Once your studio is validated by our team, you will be officially recognized as an ICDR-verified studio.

Simply upload your competitive roster to your ICDR account and parents will verify and complete dancer registration.

Inform your dancers’ guardians that their information will be secure when shared with the ICDR by incorporating the suggested Privacy Statement for Dance Studios available in our Media page into your studio’s Privacy Policy.

No. The ICDR aims to empower the existing workflows that studios are familiar with instead of changing them. We strengthen the integrity and safety of our software partners. 

No. Our software integrations with partners like DanceBUG allow dance families to redeem where they always have with added security. 

No, ICDR will remain a free tool for studios and competitions.

Registering to the ICDR establishes youth as official competitive dancers on an international scale. Their ICDR account will track their performances, awards, and history while offering more online protection, safety, and fairness than ever before. Once we have amassed enough dancers on the platform, the availability of support resources and opportunity will multiply exponentially.

The ICDR anonymizes dance data behind an integrateable member ID number secured by two-step authentication.

All information provided to the ICDR is used for the purpose of maintaining current and active records of dance history of registered participants including studio affiliations, attendance at competitive events, conventions, and workshops. Vital private data like a birth date is embedded and integrateable with existing media provider registration software into a dancer's exclusive ID number.

Media is only accessible through verified guardian accounts. Anonymized dance data, member ID numbers, and SMS authentication ensure security.

Yes, primary guardians manage their dancer’s media access, including adding secondary guardians (e.g., in split households) with limited permissions.

ICDR registration is free for 2025. A small yearly fee will apply in future seasons to maintain access and security with added benefits like accident insurance, tracked histories, and registration verification, all at a reduced rate for any Founding Member.

Password recovery is available through a secure process, requiring SMS authentication for verification.

Dancers remain registered in the ICDR, and their history follows them. The new studio must add them to their roster and the former studio director loses access to the dancer’s profile.

Yes, ICDR connects via API software to sync dancer data, waivers, and media assignments with any provider that shares our vision of a safer future for competitive dance. We pay for the development to ensure seamless integrations with any software provider in our space.

To join the ICDR as a media provider, get in touch with us and we will shoulder the cost and development needed to integrate with your custom system. We are stronger together!

Please reach out to our Executive Director at [email protected].