THEY HAD ALL the motivation they needed to take first place as they figuratively “buried” their competition Saturday night at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex.
Defending champions Reactive Squad had to settle for second place as Motivation Dancers took first place in the annual Community Dancefest competition. The group’s theme was Dancing Army and complete with rifles they presented drill movements and precision dance steps.
The big ending had the crowd screaming for about two minutes when a coffin was brought on stage. Out of it a man was trying to “rise from the dead” and he was riddled with bullets to stop him from getting out. The man had on a white hockey mask and seemed to represent the defending champs Reactive who always wear a white hockey mask.
The crowd loved it and so it seemed so did the judges who awarded them first place with $5 000 and 779 points, 25 more than Reactive who won $3 000.
In the juniors, Next Step Kids were a blast with their tribute to Barbados, dressed in the national colours with goggles and white gloves. They charmed the judges with their energetic moves and contemporary street dance themes to the latest dancehall and soca songs. They received 709 points to place first and a cash prize of $2 000. (NS)