HAJDE TE KHELAS – ERIAC Dance Contest

Description

Hajde Te Khelas – ERIAC Dance Contest called all Roma experts of dance, movement art and choreography, who perform alone, in pairs or in bigger groups from all over the world to present the virtuosity and diversity of Roma dance heritage passed on from generation to generation by applying with a short dance video.

 

ERIAC received over 66 videos from 132 dancers from 19 countries and engaged over a million Facebook views between June 8 and July 10, 2020.

 

The finalists of the competition were selected by the international jury members Isaac Blake, Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, Toby Gorniak, Belen Maya, Sani Rifati and Attila Szanto. The jury watched all videos and chose their 3 favourites, the result was a list of 13 artists which each jury member had to grade following the criteria the guidelines established:

• restoring traditional dance moves and forms;
• virtuosity of movement, and expression of emotions through dance;
• intention of choreography and presentation;
• authenticity of movements of certain regional traditions;
• reinvention of Roma dance heritage in contemporary dance and movement art.

From the 13 dancers, 10 became finalists, being the three first with the highest grades the winners of the contest! An additional prize was given to the video with more views from the Facebook audience.