The strongest dancers surprised the audience at a large-scale battle in Petrozavodsk

In the capital of Karelia in “Aquatika” Sunday was especially hot. The thing is that on April 2 the dance championship “Northern Champ. On the threshold of spring. The large-scale battle was organized by the Ragtime dance club.

The works of diligent training were demonstrated by the strongest dance groups of Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, Medvezhyegorsk and Kalevala. And there was no one to show talents, because at the event the best as many as 17 judges were determined. The organizers told our publication that they always adhere to the principle “there are never too many judges”, since the sum of subjective opinions and assessments creates a general objective picture.

By the way, not only professionals from Petrozavodsk and Kondopoga were among the judges: notorious judges who came from Moscow, namely David Gabrielyan and Tarlan Gamzaev, evaluated the skills of our dancers.

David Gabrielyan, who has been involved in modern dance since 2008, expressed the idea that dance is, first of all, creativity.

“We are moving away from some memorized programs, as in figure skating or rhythmic gymnastics, and work more with the soul. Therefore, it is dances that reveal not only physical potential in a person, but also spiritual and mental one,” the judge noted.

We asked David Gabrielyan to give some advice to beginner dancers with burning eyes and striving for high results. He noted that the main thing is to find the style that you really like. And if at some point a person didn’t like a particular style or music, this does not mean that you need to stop dancing: you should keep trying and “digging” further until you find a melody to which you want to express all spiritual impulses in dance.

“In dance, you can rely on anything,” said choreographer Tarlan Gamzaev, “I started with the classics, went to pair dances, moved towards street dancing, having a lot of experience in music, as I have been a musician since childhood. For me, it was just one of the tools. The main thing is to understand what you are striving for and use the tools that lead to this goal.”