Lukas Hinder, the President of the World DanceSport Federation, outlined the plan to expand the scope of the GrandSlam Series by including other disciplines of DanceSport in his address during the Opening Ceremony.
With a view to the future and the upcoming five-year cycle of our GrandSlam Series we look at ways of expanding on the concept by adding other dance styles and one or even more events. We are talking about this with one of our Associate Members, the World Rock ‘n’ Roll Confederation, and with our National Member Bodies. Opening up our premier competition series to a much broader interpretation of DanceSport would ultimately benefit all of us. Why, you are asking?
2018 will be an important year in the history of this world governing body. In October of next year, the first 24 dancers will contest medals at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games – the YOG – and by doing so they will put in the first appearance of DanceSport on the biggest stage of all.
They won’t be dancing the Cha Cha Cha or Viennese Waltz: “toprock,” “downrock” and “power moves” are their specialty. But let there be no doubt, what these b-boys and b-girls do is DanceSport too!
Just last weekend, the Chinese DanceSport Federation was represented by five breakers in the Continental YOG Qualifier for Asia and Oceania. After the battles between nearly 100 participants aged 15 to 17, four of them remain in running for maximum two of the 24 places in Buenos Aires next October.
Even if they don’t make it there, you should bring them to the GrandSlam Finals in 2018 and have them perform alongside the Latin and Standard dancers in a combined event that would acquire more diversity.
DanceSport is timeless, ageless and as diverse as the music it is performed to. What if this “Final Showdown in Shanghai” could develop into an annual gathering of the international elites – the best in the world – in three, four or even more dance styles?
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