By Jhoo Dong-chan
Cheonan World Dance Pageant 2024 has come to a climax with its spotlight program _ the Avenue Dance Parade.
In accordance with Cheonan Metropolis, over 2,000 homegrown and overseas performers from 47 nations held a road parade within the Shinbu-dong space Friday night, the five-day occasion’s third day.
Opening with Cheonan Mayor Park Sang-don’s parade declaration, a few 550-meter strip from Bangjukan Ogeri to Shinsegae Division Retailer Cheonan Asan became a vibrant dance stage with evident lights to current contributors’ distinctive dances accompanied by conventional music and costumes.
Overseas efficiency teams, together with groups from Albania, South Africa, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Mexico, demonstrated and loved their conventional dances and music with the town’s residents.
This yr’s parade was additionally joined by hip-hop and road dancers who will compete on the Cheonan Worldwide Avenue Dance Championship World closing slated for Saturday.
DJ Chunja additionally delivered an EDM medley with the newest Okay-pop hits to remodel the road right into a dance ground not just for performers but in addition for Cheonan residents.
The town added it put in about 2,000 seats across the occasion venue to accommodate household and aged guests.
“The parade is the spotlight of Cheonan World Dance Pageant 2024. This yr, some 4,000 dancers from all around the globe joined the occasion with Cheonan residents,” mentioned Park. “I hope extra individuals will come out and be part of us to benefit from the occasion this weekend.”
Organized by the Cheonan Basis for Arts and Tradition, Cheonan World Dance Pageant pageant kicked off with its worldwide lineup at Cheonan Stadium, Wednesday. Marking its twentieth anniversary, the occasion introduced collectively a complete 256 homegrown and overseas efficiency teams underneath the slogan of “Let’s Dance in Cheonan.”
Tens of 1000’s of holiday makers joined the opening ceremony on the primary day the place taking part overseas efficiency teams had been launched with teaser reveals, adopted by a sequence of welcome performances from hotshot pop stars, together with Kwon Eun-bi and Tune Ga-in.
In accordance with the town, a complete of 870,000 guests and performing artists joined final yr’s pageant, leading to about 43.3 billion gained in direct and oblique income for the local people. It was additionally listed within the nation’s 25 greatest native festivals by the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism in 2009 and three consecutive years from 2011.