Identity Dance Crew Hit Tauranga
Identity Dance Crew Hit Tauranga
NZ
Hip Hop Dance Champions, and NZGT finalists IDENTITY Dance
Crew are coming to Tauranga from 20-24th of January to share
their expertise and passion for dance with aspiring dancers
from the BOP community.
A whirlwind
2013 saw IDENTITY take out the National Hip Hop
Championships and represent New Zealand at the world Hip Hop
Championships in Las Vegas where they brought home the
silver medal
in their first ever
appearance on the world stage. To achieve this, Identity
competed against 67 teams from 40 countries and missed out
on first place by a mere 1 /100th of a
point.
IDENTITY Dance crew are an
Auckland based dance crew who have been a major force in the
NZ Hip Hop dance scene since 2008 and have worked hard over
the past five years to develop and perfect their own unique
style of Hip Hop. The Crew themselves have a broad dance
education and experience
with 2
members having completed dance degrees and 5 of the others
studying dance at UNITEC and Auckland University . As well
as maintaining their commitment to up skilling themselves
IDENTITY consistently work to develop young dancers, and are
all in demand as teachers, choreographers and mentors all
over New Zealand.
One of the unique
factors of ID is that it includes the Cesan brother trio
with the youngest brother leading the charge. For the
well-known Cesan brothers this is coming home.
“All three of us spent our early
years in Tauranga and my oldest brother Richie started his
Dance Education at The DEC and credits founder Prue Gooch
for fostering his love of dance as a young boy. Now with a
degree in Dance, a member of the ID world’s crew and the
principal tutor for BOYZDANCE2, Richie is looking forward to
teaching in the place where he was a student himself. The
boys and I can’t wait to spend some time with the dancers
in the Tauranga community” says IDentity Dance Crew leader
Joshua Cesan.
Identity are travelling
to Tauranga with four teams of dancers from Auckland who
will be training each morning to prepare for Hip Hop
competitions, however each afternoon they will run classes
for Bay Of Plenty dancers and teachers in a variety of Hip
Hop styles as well as contemporary, lyrical jazz and body
percussion.
For all inquiries about
classes with IDENTITY and friends email
identitydancecrew@gmail.com. Also visit IDentity website
www.identitydancecrew.com and instagram, twitter &
facebook.