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Introducing Red Bull Dance Your Style – where you decide who wins
Dance Your Style celebrates street dance in a battle with unpredictable music, crowd-voting and outgoing dance personalities. Find out how it works.
Written by Emmanuel Adelekun
2 min readUpdated on
Gorkeh performs at Red Bull Dance Your Style in Mumbai, India on October 16, 2021
© Ali Bharmal/Red Bull Content Pool
Red Bull Dance Your Style is a battle concept where the emphasis is on bringing people together to celebrate dance, music and performance, and recreating the social, party atmosphere and vibe that all the street-dance styles derived from.
Angyil at Red Bull Dance Your Style USA© Carlo Cruz/Red Bull Content Pool
The Red Bull Dance Your Style competition is a mixed, all-style solo (one-on-one) battle in which dancers from any street style discipline can enter. This open entry, all-styles format means that each battle is an exchange of the diverse and different styles that exist in street dance. Audiences get to see hip-hop, popping, house, locking and other street dance styles. The dancers go head-to-head against one another, just like at parties back in the day.
Event DJ, Novena Carmel performs at Red Bull Dance Your Style in Los Angeles, CA, USA on October 2, 2021.
DJ Novena Carmel at Red Bull Dance Your Style LA© Carlo Cruz/Red Bull Content Pool
When it comes to the music that the dancers battle to, the DJs spin well-known commercial tracks for each round, randomly selecting different genres to test the dancer’s ability to perform and adapt their dance styles to the rhythm of the beat. This means that competitors have to be ready to get down to anything from funk to pop music, rap to garage, old-school classics to recent chart hits and other popular music genres. Red Bull Dance Your Style is all about getting down to the type of music that audiences know and love.
What the voting looks like at Red Bull Dance Your Style pre-finals.
This is how voting looks like at the Dance Your Style pre-finals© Little Shao
The crowd also plays an important role in the outcome of each battle. Unlike most street dance competitions, Red Bull Dance Your Style doesn't have a panel of dancers judging and voting for a winner. Instead, the winner of each battle is decided on a crowd vote. Dance Your Style is about performance and dancer showmanship first, before judging the more technical aspects of a style. By allowing the crowd to be the judges, dancers are free to really express their personality and character, as in the end, the dancer who triumphs will be the one who can win over the crowd with their performance and individuality.
The Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final 2022 will happen in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 10. Save the date.
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Red Bull Dance Your Style is an international mixed-style dance competition. The twist? The crowd decides who wins by voting for their favourite dancers.

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Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final South Africa

Due to current public health concerns and international travel restrictions, the 2021 Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final, scheduled for December 4 in Johannesburg, has been cancelled.

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