Birmingham, USA | July 7 - 17, 2022

DanceSport

Breaking


BREAKING IS SOLD OUT


DISCIPLINESDATESTART TIMEEND TIMEROUNDSESSIONVENUE
BreakingJuly 10, 202210:00 AM3:00 PMQualifyingMen / WomenSloss Furnaces
BreakingJuly 10, 20227:45 PM9:50 PMFinalMen / WomenSloss Furnaces



DISCIPLINESDATESTART TIMEEND TIMEROUNDSESSIONVENUE
Rock 'n' Roll / LatinJuly 8, 20226:00 PM10:00 PMQualifyingPairsBJCC - Legacy Arena
Rock 'n' Roll / StandardJuly 9, 20223:00 PM9:47 PMFinalsPairsBJCC - Legacy Arena


HISTORY OF DANCESPORT

DanceSport is an event that was once referred to as competitive ballroom dancing. Its characteristics consist of physical strength, agility, coordination, stamina, a high level of fitness, discipline, teamwork, grace, style and musical interpretation. There are four disciplines of DanceSport offered in The World Games: Latin, Rock‘n’Roll, Standard and Breaking. Each of these dances is performed to the prescribed music and tempo by dancers demonstrating not only proper technique, but also poise, power, floor craft and other criteria that reflect the quality of their dancing.

LATIN

In Latin, there are five dances: Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive. With their heritage in Latin American (Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba), Hispanic (Paso Doble) and American (Jive) cultures, they each have their distinguishing traits but are similar in expressiveness, intensity and energy.

STANDARD

In Standard, there are five dances: Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Foxtrot and Quickstep. They are generally danced in a closed position of the partners.

ROCK’N’ROLL

Rock’n’Roll is a very athletic, competitive form of dance that originated from the Lindy Hop. This is a very fast and physically demanding dance. The main feature of Rock’n’Roll dance are its kicks and acrobatic elements such as lifts, jumps, throws and flips.

BREAKING

Breaking, also called breakdancing, is an athletic style of street dance. Breaking mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. Breaking is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in hip-hop, funk, soul music and breakbeat music.

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

  • England

POPULAR COUNTRIES

  • England, Germany, France, Italy, Russia

2017 WORLD GAMES CHAMPION (COUNTRY)

  • Latin – Moldova
  • Rock’n’Roll – Poland
  • Standard – Germany

EDITIONS PARTICIPATED IN THE WORLD GAMES

  • 6

 


DANCESPORT PHOTOS