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World of Dance is a Tusin California based dance company co-created by Dave Gonzales, President, and Myron Marten, now VP of Global Operations founded in March of 2008. The World of Dance Tour is the largest Urban Dance Competition in the United States, taking place in 14 major market segments in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. World of Dance is the largest touring urban dance event focusing on the art of street dance and new aged choreography. With some of most prestigious dance groups, hundreds of participants, and thousands of spectators partaking in a dance performance festival setting.

The World of Dance Tour provides a new stage for the dance community that was bigger, better, and with more opportunities than ever before, awarding today's tops dancers with a platform to showcase their talents while receiving some of the most prestigious acknowledgements and awards. Promising to deliver an unparalleled and never before seen experience to both participants and spectators in its effort to build their reputation as the Nation’s authority in Urban Dance and Lifestyle through the bridging of gaps between all the different dance scenes, creating a new dance festival experience. Fusing together multiple free standing competitions in multiple urban dance styles creating a competition unique to each dance scene. Break Dancing, Krumping, and Housing are only a few of the urban dance styles represented at the World of Dance stage. The World of Dance features not only local talent but nationally renowned urban dancers, and also features several entertainment market segments creating a new and unique lifestyle experience. With industries like clothing, art, fashion, and music, World of Dance has become more than an just a dance stage but an event of endless entertainment for both dancers and non-dancers to experience.

Sponsors
Paul Mitchell has been a sponsor for the World of Dance Tour for the past three years to present, having joined as a sponsor within the World of Dance's second year of operation, they were the first major sponsor. Supported four events within that year and becoming a Tour sponsor in their second year of sponsorship. They have now become the presenting sponsor for the World of Dance Tour. Paul Mitchell understood that dance was more than just a freedom of artistic expression, but part of a lifestyle and recognized that World of Dance was an amazing opportunity for young dancers. As a sponsor of the World of Dance Tour, Paul Mitchell has successfully helped make the World of Dance Tour an international tour in over 13 cities to date. Paul Mitchell believe that style plays an important role in dance and that dance does not solely depend on the moves but also the look that goes with it.

Other partners and sponsors for World of Dance include Verizon, Monster Energy, Southpole, Scion, Jordan, Pioneer, BodyArmor, Fuze have played crucial roles in helping develop the World of Dance Tour.

Fashion
The expansion of World of Dance has successfully integrated Independent Street wear into the Urban Dance Culture. The main goal of the World of Dance fashion is to create opportunities for sponsors to connect their brands to dance participants and receive endorsements. Every year, select brands are invited to sell, promote, and showcase their styles and designs to event attendees. World of Dance Brand Ambassador’s are always on the look out during events to give talented dance teams or unique individual dancers an opportunity to be sponsored by promising clothing lines. World of Dance fashion has plenty of boutique brands selling merchandise ranging from shoes, clothes, and accessories. For the new year of 2012, they launched new goodies, music, exclusive merchandise, and accessories for their new store website.

Events
•	December 8, 2012: World of Dance Hawaii, Blaisdell Arena Honolulu, Hawaii

•	November 17, 2012: World of Dance Chicago, Copernicus Theater

•	November 10, 2012: World of Dance Boston, Chevalier Theater

•	October 6, 2012: World of Dance San Diego, San Diego Concourse

•	September 29, 2012: World of Dance Vancouver, Douglas College

•	September 8, 2012: World of Dance Seattle, Auburn Performing Arts Center

•	August 18, 2012: World of Dance San Francisco, Solano County Fairgrounds

•	May 26, 2012: World of Dance New York, Harlem Armory

•	May 20, 2012: World of Dance Toronto, Sound Academy

•	April 21, 2012: World of Dance Dallas, Palladium Nightclub

•	April 7, 2012: World of Dance Los Angeles, Los Angeles Convention Center

•	March 10, 2012: Lifestyle Event “Beat Swap Meet” - one of the best urban events held downtown Los Angeles

•	March 3, 2012: Battlefest 17, Inside Pulse New York City

•	March 3, 2012: Urban Street Jam Event, Anaheim Convention Center - featured over 40 groups competing in Adult, Varsity and Junior Varsity sections

•	February 19, 2012: 2nd Annual World of Dance Industry Awards, ICON Ultra Lounge

WOD 2012 Industry Awards:

o	Decade of Dance Award– Nappytabs, Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo were recognized for the achievement and dedication to the hip hop dance community

o	Best Junior Team Award – Chi- Town Finest Breakers were honored as the Best Junior Team of the year

o	Teen Choreographer of the year – 16 year old Chachi Gonzales was named Teen Choreographer

o	Mos Wanted Crew - Ricky Cole, Jun Quemado, Jawn Ha, and JP Goldstein were nominate for Team of the Year

•	January 29, 2012: Vibe 17 Dance Competition, UCI Bren Events Center

Vibe XVII Winners:

o	1st place winner - Choreo Cookies

o	2nd place winner - Academy of Villians

o	3rd place winner - Kaori Alive

•	December 10,2011: World of Dance Hawaii 2011, Honolulu Hawaii

World of Dance Hawaii: The Winners

o	1st place winner: 24/6

o	2nd place winner: Hype

o	3rd place winner: Flavahs and Friends

•	November 27, 2011: World of Dance Chicago, Chicago Theater Illinois Chicago

•	November 5, 2011: World of Dance Boston, Chevalier Theater Boson, Massachusetts

•	October 15 2011: World of Dance San Diego Concourse

•	September 18, 2011: World of Dance Toronto

•	August 20, 2011: World of Dance – Solano County Fairgrounds

•	April 2, 2011: World of Dance Los Angeles 2011, Los Angeles Convention Center - Hype took 1st place

•	2011: World of Dance Seattle, B-boys Battle

World Tour
World of Dance Tour is known to showcase a variety of different styles of urban dance and has become the single largest international urban dance competition. Many of the world’s most recognized dancers partake in this event, along with its participants who wish to take the future crown and receive the same recognition. With many diverse dance styles such as break dancing, krumping, vogue, popping, choreography, and other new styles featured in the event, the World of Dance brings a whole new experience and opportunity for dancers across the globe to showcase their individuality and creativity.

Bringing international talent on stage, the World of Dance tour has made unknown dance entities and transformed them into dance icons in the international dance communities. Les Twins, a pair of unknown dancing brothers from France, became highly recognized in the community after their performance at World of Dance stage went viral on the internet. They were later accepted by the whole United States market. 2011 was an important year for World of Dance because this was the year they broke out into the international market. Being exposed in the international market gave opportunities for those across the globe to be able to represent themselves and be able to get exposure. This lead to international World of Dance Tour.

Dancers
The World of Dance stage consists of some of the most recognizable dance groups and choreographers. Many of these dance groups that have competed or performed in World of Dance also have participated in some of the most popular nationally televised dance competitions such as Randy Jackson’s America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC). In addition, all six ABDC’s champions: JabbaWockeeZ, Super Cr3w, Quest Crew, We Are Heroes, Poreotics, and I.aM.mE have participated in World of Dance either as competitors, judges, or guest performers. Other dance crews and troupes who have been featured in ABDC such as Kaba Modern, SoReal Cru, Phunk Phenomenon, Mos Wanted Crew, Instant Noodles have showcased their talent at the World of Dance. Individual members from dance groups have held workshops to share their dance style with World of Dance attendees. Due to being part of I.aM.mE's success in season 6 of ABDC,16 year old dancing sensation Olivia “Chachi” Gonzales’s popularity has sky rocketed and has been touring and offering workshops for her fans to be able to enjoy and learn her style. Similarly, dancers such as Di Moon, Brian Puspos, Lyle Beniga, Hok Konishi,Philip Chbeeb (Pacman), Ian Eastwood, Les Twins, and many others have showcased their talent, and let other dancer share in the opportunity to learn through workshops offered by World of Dance.

Media
World of Dance promotes the use of its website and other Social Network Sites, like Facebook and Twitter, that aggregates the best dance content across the globe by videographers and dancers. . Through the use of YouTube has been a great way for World of Dance and dancers to share their passion of urban dance as viewers are able to watch their favourite dancers. The World of Dance YouTube Channel has a variety of videos of performances and workshops from previous years and tours that fans are able to view, supporting their favourite dance crews and choreographers through watching and sharing these videos. These views of the videos has helped increased awareness of the urban dance culture and lifestyle that World of Dance has established and promoted.