Nagaland to organise online dance competition
KOHIMA | September 05, 2020:
Musik-A events in collaboration with Kripa Foundation will organise an online dance competition called "Nagaland Dance Battle" in October, with the Theme "Get high on dance, not on drugs."
The purpose of the event is to entertain and educate, on important health and social issues of substance abuse into a powerful catalyst for behaviour change.
The competition is said to be a first of its kind event that will be sponsored by the Department of Social Welfare, Government of Nagaland.
"It will involve young people in exposing to performance-based group activities that directly or indirectly help prevent substance abuse," said the organisers.
The online battle will consist of 5 rounds- Online Selection, Round of 16, Quarter, Semi and Final.
The judges are celebrities such as Jong, a backup dancer and choreographer of famous K-POP groups like BTS, GOT7 and several others from South Korea and Virieno Zakiesato, Choreographer and Creative Movement Artist and Kokliba.
Any bonafide citizen of Nagaland is eligible for the competition, there will be no age bar and no category preference to different kinds of dances.
Details of the competition:
To enter the contest, the participants should use Whatsapp and send their dance performance video of one minute without any edit (One Take only) to 9436007979 or mail it to musikanagaland@gmail.com from September 6 to September 26, which will be uploaded on musikaevents Instagram page.
Top 16 most liked videos will be selected for ROUND OF 16.
Judges will select Top 8 dancers for QUARTER FINALS from the list of Top 16.
The fixture of quarter-finals will be on a lucky draw basis, and the Viewers Choice Award will be selected on the audience poll.
For the quarter-final battle, all participants should dance to one common song while in the semi-final, dancers will get the freedom to choose the song of their choice.
The finalist can compose and dance on the theme "Say no to drugs" in their own choice of song.
The prize includes a championship running trophy, a total cash prize of 1,00,000 with certificates, gift hamper of PWS20N (Media and karaoke box) from Whitesquare, Dance scholarship for one year at Petros dance studio, a dance music video and workshop with the celebrity judge and sub-title categories for Best Composition, Most Promising, Youngest Dancer and Viewers Choice.
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