Sprawling on the floor, Ivy Mugler looks like she has fallen asleep for half a second. Till she hauls herself up, in one exaggerated move, springing to her feet. Even as her legs wriggle, Ivy, hair up and swaying, starts dancing.
Her steps are quick and rapid. And yet, graceful. The US-based vogue-style dancer (a style involving catwalk and floor work) is as much at ease performing to one camera and half-a-dozen people inside a conference room at The St.
Regis Mumbai, as she is to 20 cameras and a 100 mobile phones in the packed National Sports Club of India Dome (NSCI Dome) auditorium. Over the last weekend, top 16 performers from the world competed fiercely in the world finals of Red Bull’s ‘Dance Your Style 2024’. Saumya Kamble | Photo Credit: Johan Sathyadas A global all-style dance series, the competition saw performers in a battle format that showcased styles such as hip-hop, waacking, locking and popping.
Testing freestyle and musicality skills through tracks ranging from global hits to classic numbers, the contestants — picked after 145 events in 49 countries — had 55,000 dance-crazy Mumbaikars swaying, moving and voting for their favourites. Ultimately, Vietnamese popping sensation MT Pop clinched the title, even as he shook a leg to the iconic ‘ Mundian To Bach Ke ’ (Panjabi MC), creating a video moment that is bound to go viral. “We are here for the love, for the culture and for the dance.
We don’t speak the same language but here tonight, we shar.
