Dancesport Aficionados to Join ‘7th Dancesport sa Sugbu’

Around 500 athletes from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will converge in the Cebu Open DanceSport Championship 2014 & 7th Dancesport Sa Sugbu on August 9, 2014 (Saturday) at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino.

Information Officer April May Ramos of Danceport said the event which covers 24 categories is a 14-hour competition that starts from 8:00am to 10:00pm.

Ramos said the various categories will include among others, Juvenile (11 years old and below), Junior (between 12 years old to 15 years old), Youth (between 16 years old to 18 years old), Teacher-Student 1-3 Dance (student must be 39 years old and below), Teacher- Student 2-5 (student must be 40 years old and above), Senior (35 years old and above), Adult 2 Dance A, Adult 2 B, Adult 3-4 Dance, Amateur Close Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, Amateur Open, PRO-AM 3 Dance, and Professional.

She added the type of dances to be competed also include ChaChaCha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive under the Latin discipline, and Slow Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot and Quickstep under the Standard discipline.

According to Ramos the Cebu Open DanceSport Championship 2014 & 7th Dancesport Sa Sugbu is organized by the DanceSport Team Cebu City (DTCC), a non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization composed of volunteer dance teachers.

Ramos explained the volunteer dance teachers have to conduct regular free dancesport workshops and follow-through trainings in Cebu City’s 80 barangays including the remote mountainous areas.

She also said Dancesport Sa Sugbu is a competition for a cause that serves as the culmination activity of hundreds of child trainees (mostly under-privileged).

Ramos stressed the event provides an opportunity for these barangay child trainees to get a first-hand experience of what it is like joining in a professionally officiated dance competition in the hope that the exposure will instill in them self-discipline, self-confidence, and self-worth.

She said this experience will inspire the children to train harder and aspire for a better future. Ramos hinted that DanceSport sa Sugbu is touted to be the “Friendliest Competition in the World”, and home of the Guinness
World of Record for Largest Dance Class.

It promotes tourism as more than two thousand participants from the Philippines and the Asia Pacific region gather to witness the event and enjoy the sights of world-class island tourist destinations in Cebu, Ramos added.