Dancers from 38 countries try to be world champions in Lagoa

Thousands of dancers, from 38 countries, have been in Lagoa since Sunday to compete for the title of world champion, in different artistic dance modalities, in the «Dance World Cup». Until Saturday, there are shows every day at the Centro de Congressos do Arade, in Parchal, from 9 am to 21 pm.

The opening ceremony brought together «a crowd of curious and dance lovers», at the Bela Vista Stadium, Ferragudo. The Câmara de Lagoa even speaks “in a completely exhausted setting such as had never been seen in the Municipality of Lagoa, in similar events”.

The inauguration of the World Dance Championship involved thousands of young “dancers” representing the participating countries, “who paraded down the tartan track and lined up occupying the entire field's lawn”.
A promising start for what is intended to be an event «of great international projection and artistic/cultural interest, motivating the adhesion of its population and visitors, who have exhausted the availability of accommodation and gastronomic support in the Municipality».

The «Dance World Cup» is an annual event involving thousands of competitors, competing in qualifiers in their countries and a World Final. This is the biggest dance competition of all genres for children and young people in the world.
This year the competing countries are: South Africa, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Kazakhstan, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States, France, Gibraltar , Guernsey, Netherlands, India, England, Northern Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, South Tyrol and Ukraine.

The «Dance World Cup» involves more than 15 children and young people around the world between the ages of 4 and 25 – being open to anyone who attends a dance school – trying to qualify for the final, which is held annually in a different location, with the previous ones held in Jersey, Sardinia, Paris and Austria.