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Northern Champs 2015

Cerco Addiction's Northern Champs - a midsummer party  and dance competition combined hit the ground running last year with a three day even that many regarded with great fondness and this years was event has been keenly anticipated.  It wasn't just the innovations and enthusiasm of the crew - it was in truth a different kind of championship.  A championship where sitting outside with an ice cream was to be enjoyed as much the intricacies of picking a winner in Lucky Dip. Relaxed, confident and still competitive.

So there was much expected of this year's event and it brought dancers from London, Scotland, Essex, Wales and the South West so the players are set for a good battle for medals.

It started this evening (as I write at 3am) with a superlative freestyle where Sheena Assiph provided a play list of the familiar and the extraordinary.  Ceroc Classics mixed with the most challenging tracks one might find.  All good fun - along with a testing line dance lesson from Julie Gunn (CMJ Australia).

The line up of dancers was rather special with new and promising dancers mixing with some very familiar faces.  Splitting them if they are all on top of their game will be hard.

New judges too - including Jen Hoy, Gary Stubbs and Lyndsey Bennett will need to bring their critical faculties to bear on a host of marvellous dancers.

So at 1am when we all said goodbye, it was for some a short break to be back in the hall at 9am: one can only admire the bottle of the Manchester crew who don't baulk at lost sleep.

The competition will be great tomorrow and you can still come along and buy a ticket on the door. I suspect it will be very well worth it.


S

27.6.2015
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