Ohio Indoor Performance Association

The Ohio Indoor Performance association(oipa) is a non-profit organization that serves as a competitive Performance circuit, governing body, and educational resource for student performers, insturctors and adjudicators throughout the state of Ohio. The performing idioms that the oipa offers include winter color guard, Indoor drumline, baton and dance in both the individual and team setting. Through these experiences the oipa strives to foster a healthy competitive spirit, team work, a love of performing and a life long pursuit of excellence in the 34 member units, 21 guest units and over 600 students and instructors that the circuit serves. Offering competitive perfomances and educatonal events across the state of Ohio, the oipa strives to make the Indoor pageantry arts available to performers and audience members in all areas of that state, ensuring that cost and travel concers never prevent interested individuals from participating in an oipa event. Additionally, the oipa offers competition classifications using criteria designed around every ability level, ensuring that students can experience success regardless of their experience and level of pageantry education. Since its formation, the oipa has been able to help provide its members with the support and resources necessary to be successful at local, state, regional and international pageantry evenets. The oipa is continually working with irs membership to determine what new Performance classifications, educational sessions and special events should be added to the circuit's services to best serve the members and creat the most positive Performance and educational experience possible for the students, instructors and adjudicators involved. The oipa plans to continue to bring world-renowned adjudicators, clinicians, and performing ensembles to oipa events to best serve its members.