Red Bull Dance Your Style South Africa 2018

Red Bull Dance Your Style is a new 1-on-1 dance battle concept where the emphasis is on bringing people together in the celebration of dance, music and performance, and on recreating the social, party atmosphere and vibe that all the street dance styles were derived from.

THE DANCING

The Red Bull Dance Your Style competition itself will be a mixed, all-style solo (one-on-one) battle, in which dancers from any street style discipline will compete against each other.
This means that each battle will be an exchange of the diverse and different number of styles that exist in street dance. Audiences will get to see, hip-hop, breaking, popping, house, pantsula and other street dance styles. The dancers will go head-to-head against one another, just like at parties back in the day.

THE MUSIC
When it comes to the music that the dancers will battle to, the DJs will be spinning well-known commercial tracks for each round, randomly selecting different genres to test the dancer’s ability to perform and adapt their dance styles to the rhythm of the beat.

This means that competitors will have to be ready to get down to anything from funk to pop music, rap to gqom, old school classics to new, recent chart hits, and other genres of popular music. Red Bull Dance Your Style will be all about getting down to the type of music that audiences know and love.

CROWD VOTING

The crowd will also play an important role in the outcome of each battle. Red Bull Dance Your Style won't have a panel of dancers judging and voting for a winner, unlike most street dance competitions. Instead, the winner of each battle will be decided on a crowd vote.

Dance Your Style is about performance and dancer showmanship first, ahead of judging on the more technical aspects of a style. By allowing the crowd to be the judges, dancers will be free to really express their personality and character, as in the end the dancer who wins will be the one who can win over the crowd with their performance and individuality.