Zhejiang news client reporter Shen Tingyu
From October 23rd to 24th, the 2021 Zhejiang Youth Street Dance Challenge, sponsored by the People's Government of Dinghai District of Zhoushan City and the Zhejiang Provincial Street Dance Sports Association, and hosted by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports of Dinghai District of Zhoushan City, was held in Dinghai Seaside Park, Zhoushan.
The competition is the first provincial street dance competition settled in Zhoushan, attracting more than 300 young street dance enthusiasts from all over the province to participate.
Olympic "newcomers" debuted in the seaside dance arena
At the end of 2020, the IOC Executive Committee held a meeting and agreed to add four major events such as break dance (hereinafter referred to as Breaking) to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, which means that this first street dance event shortlisted for the Olympic Games will bring new opportunities for the development of sports dance.
Breaking has extremely high physical requirements for the players, and this event, young Breaking fans have received the most professional judgment in terms of musicality, originality, difficulty skills, physical strength, balance and coordination. The gusts of the sea breeze in autumn, accompanied by the refreshing dance on the stage, received bursts of applause from the local audience. In addition, in addition to the PK of the Breaking category, there is also a free-style individual dance competition (hereinafter referred to as AllStyle) and a team self-choreographed dance duel.
The heavyweight referees in the circle gathered in the refereeing team
Hip-hop extravaganzas are naturally indispensable to heavyweight judges.
The six-person referee group specially invited by this competition is a national first-class street dance referee. The chief referee is Zhao Yanyu, deputy director of the referee committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Street Dance Sports Association.
Deputy referee Chen Jie is the team leader and coach of the Zhejiang break dance training team at this year's National Games, and he led the Zhejiang team to win the women's bronze medal (Zeng Yingying) and the men's sixth place (Jin Xibin). At the same time, he is also the director of the Battle of Kings BATTLE KING World Hip Hop Competition.
Another deputy referee, Wang Sanchuan, is a member of the Chinese star Hiphop United team, Xcrew Juniour, who has trained many outstanding street dancers and has directed various street dance competitions in the country and province.
The other three referees are the champion of the POPPEN group of the R16 China Division of the Korean blockbuster event, the super dancer Tur Hongjiang of the "Dance Forest Competition", Chen Qi, a guest dancer of major concerts in China, and Zheng Mingwei, who has a rich referee resume such as the Lanxi City National Street Dance Challenge.
It is worth mentioning that JusteDebout, Kod, RedBull and other major events in the world, the popular network variety show "This! It is the official certified derivative program host of "Street Dance" Wang Chenguang served as the MC of this event, and the well-known DJ-Punk HO in the circle joined in, which can be described as a gathering of dancers in the dance world, gathering in the coastal carnival.
Say goodbye to stereotypes, hip-hop future has "me"
In the past, street dance more or less carried the labels of "maverick" and "untamed" in the public understanding. With the continuous transformation of the country from a sports power to a sports power, street dance is gradually becoming synonymous with "positive energy sports", and more and more sports fans break the barriers of old concepts and throw themselves into the embrace of street dance. "Sport has the power to change the world", which is also the unwavering belief in the hearts of all the teenagers who participated in this hip-hop challenge.
The competition aims to promote the popularization and improvement of sports dance and street dance projects, provide a platform for the majority of youth sports dance and street dance lovers to bloom charm, surpass themselves and realize their dreams, and show the vigorous and upward spirit of young people in Zhejiang Province.