National Dance Festival opens this weekend

The Department of Culture will this weekend begin the 15th  Kingstown Cooperative Credit Union (KCCU) National Dance Festival under the theme ‘Dancepiration’.

The preliminaries are slated for the weekends of September 14, 21 and 28,2024, with the finals on October,12, 2024. There will be five categories comprising Traditional and Creative Folk dance in week one; Modern Dance in week two, and Social/ Ballroom and Hip-Hop in week three.

This year’s festival will showcase choreographies in all categories including solos in the Modern and Popular Dance genres, and duets in Modern, Social and Hip-hop categories. There will be trios in the Modern Dance category only.

Each week of the festival would highlight a different sub-theme:

In week one, Traditional and Creative Folk, the sub-theme is ‘Echoes of the Past’; week two, Modern dance, the sub-theme is ‘Elements of Motion;

Week three- Social & Popular- the sub-theme is ‘Glitz and Glamour’.

The festival will have entries from primary and secondary schools as well as community groups in both junior and senior categories.(API).