Zimbabwe will this year get a shot at the largest international dance competition DanceStar with Jibilika hosting the auditions this Tuesday 11 April 2017.
Jibilika Dance Trust in partnership with South African dance champion Paul Modjadji’s Breaking Down Borders will select Zimbabwe’s first representative to DanceStar at Jibilika Urban Culture Centre in Harare.
The auditions will start at 11 am at the Batanai Gardens located Centre (Corner First and Jason Moyo,Harare)
Modjadji made history by becoming the first dancer in Africa to win the European Dance Star World Championships in the solo Jazz category in 2011.
He has been on an African whirlwind with the Breaking Down Borders Africa Tour a pan-African dance tour that saw him make ten stops on the continent teaching dance and collaborating with young African civic leaders and artists
The DanceStar World Tour is held in different countries around the world and the DanceStar Finals take place in Poreč, Croatia with the winner flying away with €50 000.
DanceStar is the No 1 Dance Competition in the world with a network of over 55 000 dancers across 55 countries.
The competition is open to dancers across the world who go through qualifying auditions in their countries to qualify for the finals at the World Masters in Croatia in May, annually.
Dance styles represented vary from classical ballet, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, Broadway, musical theatre, to hip hop and folklore.
Speaking to Zimbuzz Nyaradzo Nhongonhema the new Jibilika creative director said the opportunity serves as a motivation to all dancers.
“As the performing arts industry, for a long time now we have been struggling to break into the international ‘market’ mostly because of lack of exposure,” she said.
“So having a dancer going to represent Zimbabwe in one of the world’s biggest dance contests is a huge mark in the industry.
“Besides putting Zimbabwe on the map, the mere representation itself is a sign that the dance sector is making progress.
“This opportunity also works as motivation to all the dancers out there, this is just one but many more opportunities such as this one will be coming,” she added.
She also said the selected candidate will be offered continuous dance sessions with trainers of different genres of dance to make sure that he or she gets in the best form to represent the country in the competition.
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