Dance World Cup
The Dance World Cup is the largest and most famous international dance competition for children, teenagers and young adults up to 25 years of age. It takes place every year in a different city in a different country. Eligible are students from private ballet schools, dance schools or clubs who have qualified through an official national dance competition in their respective country. There are currently official qualification competitions in around 62 countries around the world. Around 5000 children and young people take part in the Dance World Cup every year. For participants from Germany, the German ballet competition with its five regional competitions, organized by the Munich Ballet Association, is the official qualification competition. The final round of 2017 will take place from June 23rd to July 1st in the Oberrheinhalle in Offenburg .
Dance World Cup styles
- Classic ballet
- National dance
- Modern and contemporary dance
- Jazz dance and show dance
- Hip-hop and street dance
- Tap dance
- Singing and dancing
History of the Dance World Cup
In 1982 Korinna Söhn from Munich founded the "Ballettförderkreis München eV", which has organized the German ballet competition since 1983. The German ballet competition took place every one, two or three years in a theater in the greater Munich area. In 2000 Korinna Söhn started organizing a corresponding competition in Greece, which took place in Piraeus in 2001 and 2002 as the "Hellas Dance Festival".
When schools from nine countries and three continents took part in the German ballet competition in 2003, Korinna Söhn initiated the "Dance World Cup", which was held for the first time in 2004 in the Fürstenfeld event forum in Fürstenfeldbruck .
The Dance World Cup took place in the following countries in the following years:
year place country 2004 Fürstenfeldbruck Germany 2005 Wroclaw Poland 2006 Faro Portugal 2007 Yalta Ukraine 2008 Vancouver Canada 2009 St. Helier jersey 2010 Olbia Sardinia 2011 Disney Paris France 2012 Villach Austria 2013 Brighton England 2014 Lagos Portugal 2015 Bucharest Romania 2016 St. Helier jersey 2017 Offenburg Germany
Since 2009 the "Dance World Cup Society" with its headquarters on the island of Jersey has been the organizer of the Dance World Cup. The administrative director is John Grimshaw, the artistic director is Korinna Söhn.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the event on the Dance World Cup website, accessed on June 24, 2017.