SkinnyBoy wows at Red Bull Dance Your Style
The Red Bull Dance Your Style competition brings people together to celebrate dance, music and performance and aims to recreate the lively social party atmosphere from which all street dance styles originated.
POLOKWANE- Sixteen freestyle dancers participated in the Red Bull Dance Your Style competition held at Savannah Mall on Saturday.
BennySkinnyBoy Matlamela from Moletsi Mabokelele was crowned the winner after defeating Moeletsi Malatsi in the final.
Matlamela will compete with other contenders at the South African National Final Weekender where the Red Bull Dance your Style South Africa winner will be chosen at Suncoast Casino on September 1-2.
The winner at the Durban event will represent South Africa in the world finals in Germany later this year.
The Dance Your Style competition is a dance battle that brings people together to celebrate dance, music and performance, and aims to recreate the lively social party atmosphere from which all street dance styles originated.
The competition format relies heavily on the DJ and the audience: The DJ curates a playlist featuring various music genres to test the dancers’ versatility in adapting their dance styles to the beat.
The audience acts as the judging panel, using voting cards to determine the winners of each battle round.
Matlamela said being part of the Limpopo final was a mind-blowing experience.
“I am so happy and the support that I have received throughout the competition was awesome. When I first started dancing, I was doing it for fun, but now I can see that there is a future in dancing. The competition was tough, but I managed to win, even though my contenders were more skillful.”
Red Bull Dance Your Style host, Hungani Ndlovu said his job was just to curate, as the audience were the ones who voted.
“SkinnyBoy stands a chance to represent South Africa at the world final. That Limpopo Boy has a huge influence because when you see people dance almost every single round, there is someone that is doing the same style of Bujwa dance.
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“When the song plays, whether it was Amapiano, Gqom music, and house music you can tell that most dancers were prepared to dance to every genre of music. So, I encourage people to start listening to other music and they can dance to other music genres.”
