Taiping Open Dance Championships 2010.

Taiping Open Dance Championships 2010 was held on 19 Sept 2010. The event was the 1^st time in Taiping. The organizers – Shirley Hun & P.H. Lim  work hard  together with a very supportive frame of helpers, almost all problems were overcome and everything went on smoothly. Though it was a small event held at the Persatuan Ong Si Thye Guan Thong hall,  it certainly brought with it a lot of competitive spirit and good cheer. The competition turned out to be quite a success! 

 

My students took part  in  3 belly dance categories.  Much to my surprise, not many competitors this round but the organiser still segregated the competition into different age groups. The adjudicators for the belly dance events were : Myself,  Jocelyn, Emily, Nancy Baskhy and Zara. Here's are some information you might like to know. The Emcee for the event was Bronya, the best emcee for the dance competition event! She is really good  to dealt with the arrangement of the programme.  

 

Registration of the competitors started at 1.00pm. After a adjudicators  briefing, the Latin dance competition started at 1:30pm. During the day, the prize giving ceremony for the finals of the earlier events was conducted in the hall and the cheers of the supporters could be heard. I do not have the results for the Latin events,  I shall post what I do have. 

 

In order to keep the competitive events running, the semi final belly dance was held at the day event and  the final was schedule at night. Myself, Jocelyn and  Emily went back to SSL Trader Hotel for rest and changing clothes. We lost the way when going back to venue hall, thankfully managed to get my bro-in law in Taiping to lead for the direction.  

 

My students won the Champion in Belly Dance competition! That were -  Intermediate Solo Open, Kids Solo Open and 1st Runner up in Beginner Solo Open. 

Congratulations to all the winners! It takes a lot of courage to enter a competition and everyone who does, is a winner in their own book. For those who didn't achieve their  goals this time, just aim for the next. Now with this event being sanctioned by the IDO (International Dance Organization), next years event will  be the bigger and better so start getting ready now. See you all then.