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Wednesday 7 May 2014
IDentity Dance Crew Win National Title
Over 500 dancers from across 5 NZ regions gathered over the weekend to compete at the Street Dance NZ national
championships. In front of a packed audience of nearly 2000, 2013 Adult Champions IDentity Dance Crew successfully
defended their title and were named National Adult champions for the second year running.
All crews were competing for places that qualify them to represent NZ at the World Hip Hop Championships held in Las
Vegas in August. For the first year IDentity Dance Crew launched their own dance company ‘ID Co’ which included two
junior crews Swagganauts & Shique. Three varsity crews – Excess, The Instigators and Steez, and their sister team Alias in the adult division.
Five of their seven teams made National finals and ‘Alias’ took out the second place in the adult division. IDentity Co
also entered a 30 strong mega crew, which placed third in the Mega Crew section.
New Zealand has already gained a fierce reputation on the world stage with four crews across four divisions bringing
home silver medals last year from the World Championships. THE ROYAL FAMILY choreographed by internationally renowned
Parris Goebal took out the gold medal in the mega crew division for the third year running. Other teams from The Palace
also took home second and third placings. The ID boys as first time competitors took out the silver medal in the adult
division missing out on the gold by a mere 2/100th of a point.
“We were stoked to be able to defend our title and to now have another opportunity to represent New Zealand on the world
stage. The highlight this year was mentoring and developing other crews as part of ID CO. We are passionate about
cultivating young up and coming dancers and seeing them learn what they are capable of achieving when they work hard” says ID leader Joshua Cesan.
IDentity dance crew have also released their first concept video ‘Mind Control’. They are touring high schools across NZ
with a teen suicide prevention campaign titled ‘UNDEFEATED’. Along with teaching weekly classes, gigs, university
commitments and next week will be featuring in the ERUPT Arts Festival in Taupo as part of the very successful “Out Of
The Box production.
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