2023-05-08 06:30:17
At the end of April, the Black Label team from the EBE Dance School in Girona, in the neighborhood of Taialà, qualified for the hip-hop world championship, which will take place between July 30 and 6 August in Phoenix, USA. Eduard Boada is the director of the school and, with Elba Sosa, choreographer of the group
Dancing hip-hop in the studio, when it was a street dance, doesn’t it devirtualize it?
Mmm… it’s an eternal discussion, and the championships also have battles, which are probably the origin of this dance. Well, everything is commercialized, and I don’t think it’s bad. Everything goes forward, if we were always anchored in the past, the world would not evolve. And hip-hop would have stayed in the four steps invented by the first people who danced it. In the past, guidelines were followed a lot, and more and more, people create new pieces, surely better than what was there.
I guess someone pays for their trip.
Since it is not a sport, there is no federation, we have to pay for it ourselves. It won’t cost us less than 2,000 euros per head, trip and stay. We are looking for sponsors, at least for the clothes. Either way, we’re going for sure, we’ve been saving up for this for months.
We prepare physically: we go for a run, we do weights…
Did you say sport?
Half sport, half art. There is art in the creation of the piece, of the choreography. But we also prepare physically: we go for a run, we do weights… These are two-minute performances at full speed, very hard. I’m 37 years old and it’s hard for me, I’ll stop dancing soon. It’s that they come young, they come very strong (laughs). Let’s see if they retire me and I can dedicate myself to directing and that’s it.
What brings a young man to dance hip-hop and you are not worth, for example?
Well, I come from ballroom dancing.
God gives the change.
First he played football. At sixteen I decided to try new things, which maybe at school you don’t get the chance to try less known things. So I spent a few years doing sports ballroom dancing, that is, competition.
And from here to hip-hop?
It’s just that ballroom dancing is very expensive, I spent 500 euros on a dress, and I needed three a year. Hip-hop is freer. Because of my character, I immediately wanted to compete. And so far
Does he take advantage of something from football, when it comes to dancing?
What serves me in hip-hop is what I learned in ballroom dancing. I look forward to applying it. Of football, no, rather I think that now football takes advantage of dancing in the celebration of goals. I like it, it gives us visualization and ends the dancing boy taboo.
When I was sixteen, they called me barbaric things, but I answered: yes, but I dance with a girl.
Does this taboo still persist?
There is everything. It doesn’t affect me, I’ve never had a problem. When I was sixteen, they called me barbaric things, but I answered: yes, but I dance with a girl. Yes, it is true that sometimes I find small children who laugh at them at school because they dance. You know, they laugh at them and they laugh at another for another reason, I always tell them that they should do what they like. But hey, it has evolved a lot, tiktok has also contributed a lot to making the dance viral.
It supposes pressure, going to compete in the USA, where was hip-hop born?
I have warned them. I have been to the World Cup other times, and the first time, when I went on stage, I said “what are you doing here?” When it comes to show, they are always one step ahead.
Here in Girona there is a great amount of talent and dancers, we are not aware enough
Are they mirrored?
Today, thanks to YouTube, you can watch the bands you want from all over the world, before you had to wait a week to see one on a TV show. This helps a lot. Here in Girona there is a great amount of talent and dancers, we are not aware enough.
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