6th DanceSport Sa Sugbo

DanceSport aficionados shone in the 6th DanceSport sa Subgu and Queen City Open DanceSport Championship held at the Pacific Grand Ballroom of the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino.

DanceSport sa Sugbu is the only dancesport competition in the Philippines held outside Metro Manila. Now on its 6th showing, DanceSport sa Sugbu has the biggest participation with nearly a thousand athletes from the most number of cities from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines and from countries within the Asia Pacific Region, Europe and the United States of America, gathering an audience of nearly 2,000.

The 6th DanceSport sa Sugbu and Queen City Open DanceSport Championship gathered 500 athletes representing Cebu City, General Santos City, Hinunangan, Leyte, Panabo City, Minglanilla-Cebu, Xyle-Kidapawan, Turin-Kidapawan, Manila, Baguio City, Danao-Cebu, Carcar-Cebu, Lucena City, Negros Oriental, Siquijor, Cagayan de Oro City, Zamboanga City and the countries of Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.

The event was graced by none other than Philippine Sports Commission Chair Hon. Ricardo P. Garcia, and PSC Commissioner Jose Luis R. Gomez, Cebu City Sports Commission Chair Edward L. Hayco, Cebu City Councilor and Committee on Sports Chair Richard Z. Osmeña, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, DanceSport Council of the Philippines Ma. Rebecca F. Garcia.

Adjudicators were Genice Marquez, Anna Dulce Yangco, Belinda Adora, Gloria Alcala, Edgar Borromeo, Marian Camacho, Geraldine Darvin, Richard Rey Obong, Jenevieve Camacho Eroles, Arthur Eroles, Marvin Marquez, Michael Mendoza, Joel Ocsena, Anna Poloyapoy, Ronnie Steve Vergara, John Derick Co, Filomena Salvador, Lowell Tan, John Chong and Christian Bradbury led by the Chairman of the Board of Adjudicators Glen Tierney.

Organized by the DanceSport Team Cebu International, Inc., a non-stock, non-profit organization geared at promoting DanceSports among the grassroots to transform the youth and help alleviate poverty, DanceSport sa Sugbu has hosted both national and international competitions with linkages from the DanceSport Council of the Philippines and the World DanceSport Federation (formerly International DanceSport Federation), with the support of the Cebu City Sports Commission and the Philippine Sports Commission.

DanceSport Team Cebu City created DanceSport sa Sugbu for the primary purpose of letting these barangay child trainees get a first-hand experience of what it is like joining in a professionally officiated dance competition. The exposure will instill in them self-discipline, self-confidence, and self-worth. This experience will inspire the children to train harder and aspire for a better future.

This competition for a cause is the culmination activity of hundreds of child trainees (mostly under privileged) who were given regular free dancesport workshops and follow-through trainings in Cebu City's 80 barangays including the remote mountainous areas made possible by the untiring and selfless efforts of dance teacher-volunteers.

Over 200 kids (juvenile, junior, youth) from the DanceSport Team Cebu FREE Summer Workshop performed their Culminating Dance at the 6th DanceSport sa Sugbo Opening Program.

DanceSport Team Cebu International, Inc. is the Guinness World Record Holder for World's Largest Dance Class of 7,770 participants. To support its advocacy of holding FREE Year-Round DanceSport Workshops, one may contact DanceSport Team Cebu International, Inc. tel. no. 415 5844. One may also visit its website www.dancesportcebu.org.