Cali Step Up – The dance contest for amateurs of the summer
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Do your feet tap under the table when a song is in your head? Do you keep perfect rhythm when you think no one is looking? Then Cali has the contest for you!
Dance has more benefits than just letting loose in a club, and recent research is just beginning to unlock the potential your dancing shoes hold. Indeed, a recent study shows that dance can treat mental illnesses including depression, increase self esteem and offset anxiety, as well as offering tremendous cardio-vascular benefits.
Still – one barrier remains: you never quite know how you look on the dance floor! Enter California Fitness & Yoga with its inhibition bustin’ Cali Step Up Dance Contest. Running all summer long, Step Up sets up a program set to get your feet movin’, hips swayin’ and calories burnin’.
“Kicking off this month, the Cali Step Up Group Dance Challenge encourages people to let their personalities shine through in their routines, to express themselves through the art of movement, and to choreograph their routines and their lives around health, wellbeing and positivity,” said California Fitness & Yoga’s Chief Executive Officer Dane Fort.
“But that alone does not help us fulfill our mission,” Fort continued. “We have long said our role in Vietnam is to spread health and hope to all 100 million people in Vietnam – so we are calling upon our Cali Steppers to step it up in their own communities to spread their routines, share their energy, and inspire their friends and families with their toe-tapping-talents.”
Step Up Judge Mr. Quang Dang agreed, saying: “We live life in every step – and that is the theme of our competition. We value fun vibes, confident energy, and group harmony. Step Up is for people of all ages, all genders, all professions – dance is the great equalizer. So, lace up and tap-away!”
The group nature of the program promotes a shared sense of community in a program specially designed to target amateur dance enthusiasts in groups ranging from duets to quintets in genres spanning Dancesport, Modern Dance, Pole Dance, Zumba and beyond.
Registration is free of charge from 1 to 12 May 2023 for all California Fitness members with membership valid until the end of July 2023. 20 teams selected from preliminary rounds will enter an in-club audition and qualifying round between 20 May and 3 June 2023 to be included in the list of 10 teams competing in the final round in July 2023.
The scores of the performances are evaluated based on 4 criteria: timing, engagement, range of movement, and presentation.
The prize is also one of the factors to foster the enthusiasm of the competing teams. The champion team will become the Group X Ambassadors for California Fitness, with each member of the team awarded the highest level of membership at California Fitness and many other gifts valued at up to 500 million VND. In addition, the audience’s favorite team will be awarded a special prize valued at up to 60 million VND.
