On the 16th and 17th of April we organized for Motor Festival two street battles that took place in Peace and Friendship Stadium. We were asked to provide high level street dancers and impressive competition in order everyone that would visit the festival to be able to see.
So the Street Battles took place, having the Breaking Battle on Saturday and the Hip Hop battle on Sunday. We invited 32 dancers from all around Greece and Cyprus, 4 judges and one DJ.
Breaking Battle
Invited b-boys:
Enemy (Lucky Dice)
Teach One (Lucky Dice)
Mighty-G (1st Culture Crew - Crete)
Aidi (Breakings)
Cyclown (Bassick Crew - Cyprus)
Thief (Illegal Freedom)
RTZ (Beat Stylerz)
Prokid (Mad Squad)
Es-Kix (Dead Prezz)
G Flow (Mad Squad)
Jeki (Mad Squad)
Lole
Twist (Breakingz)
Zerow (Dead Prezz)
Angelino
Mark
DJ Rennie (Wave0matics) gave the beat and the judges were:
Terrorist (Dead Prezz)
Lazy John (Mad Squad)
Torch (Breakingz)
All battles were amazing and they led us to the final between hoodgroove artist b-boy Aidi (Breakingz) against b-boy Es-Kix (Dead Prezz). Es-Kix won the close battle by one point.
The crowd was amazed from all dancers' skills. The Festival proved a good ground for battles like these to happen and we got some pretty impressive feedback from everyone there.
Hip Hop Battles
On Sunday we had the Hip Hop battle that was judged by Hood Groove artist Virtuozo.
The invited dancers were:
Rekoz (The Music Box)
Dwave (The Music Box)
Martha
Sileng (1st Culture Crew - Κρήτη)
Myrto
Brownie (The Music Box)
K.
Miss Friday
Angela
Valentinos
Sofia
Icer (The Music Box)
ΜΚΟ (The Music Box)
Sofia Lazou (Omega Crew - Θεσ/νίκη)
Aggeliki
Sitzi (Θεσσαλονίκη)
All battles were on fire and the judge couldn't decide in many of them. That's why we had 5 battles that went to the tie break. The final found Sitzi from Thessaloniki against Myrto from Athens, where Sitzi got the win in an impressive manner.
The hip hop battle combined old and new dancers flavor into a really hot mix. High skills and warm atmosphere made this battle unique.
To sum up
Motor Festival was pretty good organized in every aspect of it. Many shows during the weekend and our battles being part of the whole showcase that the festival provided to all visitors. We organized everything and we were resilient in any changes we were asked to do by the organizer. We have to thank everyone and especially those unique dancers that came and supported those battles.
Check some photos from the battles
