Break Dancing

In the world that is dance, it is formed in a way that people have their own clicks (communities) and as the basically trained dancers people tend to outcast Break-Dancers.

In this picture we have your classic break dancer Michael Bernardes.

 

But unfortunately this style of dance is under rated and underappreciated in South Africa, it is classified as an untrained form of dance. I’ve been taking Break dancing classes for the past 3-4 weeks and that form of dancing really requires strength and discipline. The hours that get put into perfecting this dance style have nothing less than pain and sweat. So it is a very hectic sport.

 

 



BBoy Dexter at theRedbull BC1 cypher

 

 

There are a couple of platforms for the break dancers of South Africa to showcase themselves like:

·         Redbull  BC1

·         Back 2 the City

·         King Of The Beat

·         Battle of the Giants

·         Big Bang

·         Krumpers vs Bboy

·         And maybe private sessions

And these competitions are not really recocgnised or supported. Krump is also an un nioticed dance style but we will get into to that next time.

 

Break dancing is a very beautiful dance style and I commend the break dancers in south Africa for sticking to it, the boys and the girls.



Back and ready 4 action! DANCE

I know its been over a year since ive blogged but im back and ready for action…

I have a bit of a problem with how dancing is acknowledged in this country (South Africa). The dance events that we have are not really covered well or advertised well. Dancers are taken as just a simple entertainment and not as artists.

The first event that is normally overlooked is called ‘Dance to Las Vegas’. It is an event that takes place annually as qualifiers for Hip-Hop International World Championship held in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. There are qualifiers in all the major dance cities of South Africa ; Johannesburg, Capetown and Port Elizabeth. The top 5 crews in the cities in every category then make it to the Final round and from there the top 3 are then taken to represent South Africa in the World Championship in Las Vegas. The advertisement of the event is normally not big and I don’t understand why. The people who know about the events are the people in the dance communities and I believe if it was handled properly we might be able to get more people to see and sponsor these events.

So You Think You Can Dance South Africa season 3 was a big disappointment. as not a lot of people knew in time about the auditions. Word only properly went out into the streets about 2 weeks before the auditions started in Capetown, South Africa which didn’t give dancers and aspiring dancers enough time to get themselves up to par. In my opinion not a lot of the country’s best dancers were able to audition as they couldn’t work it in properly to their schedules.

So in all I am not impressed with the way the Public Relations Practitioners of these dance events handle the situations and these are not the only dance events that suffer from this problem. I am hoping that soon this problem will be solved.