The iDance® UK Hip Hop Dance Championships started this weekend with the first of its regional qualifiers in the Midlands and the South.
Over the coming weeks dancers from the UK will begin their battle to claim the title of UK Champions.
Yesterday started with an open jam,workshops and showcases from judges including Turbo (Issac Baptiste) from Got To Dance on Sky One at Bournemouth Pavillion, while at The Drum, Birmingham dancers were also given the chance to win tickets to see hip hop group Slum Village in concert.
The iDance UK Hip Hop Championships grand final takes place on 4 and 5 June at Thorpe Park, where winners from the regional events will compete against each other for the grand prize: to represent their country at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in August 2011.
This year the judging panel for the UK finals includes Shabba Doo, star of the movie Breakin‘.
Video: Shabba Doo (YouTube)
Members of the top UK crew will have their flights paid to go Las Vegas this summer to represent the UK.
Omar Paloma, founder of iDance said: “For the past two years, iDance has seen some of the best hip hop and street dance crews from across the UK compete for a lucrative spot at the World Hip Hop Championships. The competition is only going to get tougher as we see the boundaries of this dance genre being pushed to their limits and beyond.”
Previous winners of iDance include Plague who won the world championships in America; Flawless, who became finalists on Britain’s Got Talent competition in 2009; Peridot (BBC3’s Move Like Michael Jackson, Britain’s Got Talent); Jukebox and DNA (featured dance groups on Sky 1’s Got to Dance).
He continued: “The UK has some exceptional dance talent and we’re looking forward to sending the winners to represent us and show the world of street dance exactly what the UK is made of.”
The iDance® UK Hip Hop Dance Championships is run by dancers for dancers and is the only event that qualifies British hip hop crews, breakers, poppers and lockers for the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in America, produced by Hip Hop International, the creators of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV.
Who won 2010’s comp?
why isnt Smash bro’s mentioned in any of this??????????/
I think you’ll find we (Smash Bro’z) won this particular little competition hun…Maybe their spell check wasn’t working?
who is DNA?
Just ask to see their GOLD medal for the 2010 UK HIP HOP CHAMPS, that should clear up any confusion 😉
to the people that run the competition from the highest ends:
what makes you say this competition is one that represents Hip Hop dance? if you watch the crews routines, a lot of them aren’t involving any breakin’ in there – which is first and foremost the dance of Hip Hop as it stands and always will; and how does dancing to sound effects constitute as skill? im sure they add that in after they create the routines, doesn’t dance come from the music and not the other way around?
and for not mentioning Smash Bro’z (for whatever reason and whoever’s fault that is) is it because they aren’t from london? their dance wasn’t ‘Hip Hop’ ? or just not a regular crew to enter or been around long enough? or because they have disbanded? i think some people would like answers to that question.
Smash Brothers???? The real winners! Are mentioned Where???
this is just bad journalism and bad representation of uk dance scene!
nobody entered in th South
why theres a picture of peridot, when they didnt win the last hip hop champs and no mention at all of the crew that did win it and changed the competition for the good!???
smash broz should be at least mentioned!!!
STILL NO RESPONSE ON HERE TO THE QUESTIONS POSED!!!!
WHY????
Where could I find a under 12s comp for my kids northern section as I have a set of kids I’ve been teaching that’s guna set the world on fire?