Cordillera Dancesport group to have breakdancing contest this summer

January 29, 2022 Provincial

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – It’s definitely back in the 80s where Turbo and Ozone may just have to resurrect their dancing skills but this time in the Valley in a mountainous region.
After staging a successful dance festival last year, the newly formalized Dancesport Cordillera, Inc. will stage a breakdancing and all style competition on April 30.
DSCI, which is responsible in reviving the interest on dance sports in the region even during the pandemic, will hold the first face-to-face dance competition where local and national breaking athletes will be invited.
“It will be a full day of face-to-face competition inviting local and national breaking athletes and dance enthusiasts,” said DSCI head Charibelle Pingawan.
The breakdancing tilt will be the first competition the newly formalized dance association will be organizing, although the second since the successful 1st Cordillera Dance Festival Online last year which featured dance sports and attended from other dance and dance sport groups in the country and other countries.
The April 30 DSCI competition is inspired with the announcement of the World DanceSport Federation that the sport will be included in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games as mandated by the International Olympic Committee.
Pingawan said that breakdance will be the first dance sport discipline to appear in the Olympics Games, following its successful debut at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2018.
Breakdancing, breaking or B-boying, is described as an energetic form of dance, fashioned and popularized by African Americans and Latinos, that includes stylized footwork and athletic moves such as back spins or head spins that was founded in 1970s. It became popular in the 80s especially after it was featured in several Hollywood flicks among which was Breakin’ featuring the fictitious characters Ozone and Turbo.
Pingawan said that on the other hand, all-style, , is a style of dance where the dancer mixes any and all styles of dancing without any regard for the traditional boundaries or rules of the individual styles.
She said that details on the event categories and guidelines for the registration will be announced soon for all competitors and spectators. Pingawan, meanwhile, is inviting interested members to join the group which is open to all interested students, athletes, coaches, trainers, teachers, parents and dance sport enthusiasts from the different provinces and cities of the Cordillera.
For more information, visit the DanceSport Cordillera, Inc. at Facebook.
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