Show to fundraise for dance champs
A Dunedin dance school is calling on the community to help them get to the "Olympics of hip-hop".
Rasa School of Dance crew Allies qualified for the World Hip-Hop Dance Championship in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this month.
However, it is going to cost about $45,000 to get the seven dancers and their coaches to the United States for 10 days, and the school is putting on a show at the Otago Boys' High School auditorium to help fundraise for the trip.
Dance school principal Lisa Wilkinson said there was no way they were going to fundraise that much money, but they were hoping to get as much as possible to lessen the load on parents.
Some parents had already taken out loans to send the children to the competition.
Tomorrow's two-hour show will include "heaps of hip-hop", tap dancing, kapa haka and a sneak preview of the Allies routine for the world championships.
Allies coach Danielle Veenvliet previously told the Otago Daily Times the world championships were the "Olympics of hip-hop".
"It's a really an amazing platform for the best of the best in the world to accelerate their career," she said.
The crew leaves on July 22.
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