By Osagie Alonge
In the light of Dance contests making their way to the entertainment scene and getting massive recognition and exposure, a new dance competition titled ‘Dance Nation’ is set to debut this year.
‘Dance Nation’ is a platform designed to showcase the best of dancers as they battle for the ‘Best Dancer in Nigeria’ title. It promises to be tough and rigorous as only dancers from the year 18 upwards are qualified to participate.
Auditions will take place in four different regions of the country – Abuja, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Lagos as 10 boys and girls will be chosen to make a final list of 20 dancers who will slug it out on the grand stage.
‘Nigerians are very talented people either in arts or academics, but more people needs to get interested in these talents and provide platforms for them to be showcased which is where Dance Nation comes in. Not only do we want to search out these talents we want to set then on a trailblazing path’, producer of Dance Nation, Jemila Musa shed more light on the competition.
The emerging winner of the maiden edition of Dance Nation will walk away with N1M (One Million Naira), a car and will get to go on a two-week dance course in South Africa. The first and second runner-ups will get a N1M and N750,000 respectively. The remaining top ten will get between N150,000 to N250,000 depending on when they leave the show.
Forms will be made available in May 2011.
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