Fil-Aussie heads Australia’s national hip hop dance squad

July 23, 2012 Filed under Dancing, People Posted by TFA Staff

Queensland' dance team Clockwork

Filipino Australian hip hop dance impresario Marco Selorio heads a 100-strong Australian national hip hop dance contingent to the United States for the 2012 World Hip Hop Dance Championship.

Thirty-four countries are slated to send their respective national teams to the championship to be staged in Las Vegas from August 1 to August 5.

Selorio: 'High hopes for Australia's dance crews...'

Selorio said that he is excited about Australia’s prospects this year.

“We are sending in our biggest Australian delegation to date. I have high hopes for our Australian dance crews,” Selorio said.

The 100-strong national team is composed of dance teams that qualified from all over Australia including Clockwork, Method Crew, Academy of Brothers, Runway, Empire, Blush, Stiletto (Brisbane, QLD); QJam Entertainment (Toowoomba, QLD); Royal Knights (Sydney, NSW); Project Beats (Canberra, ACT) and Urban Force, A2D (Melbourne, VIC).

“Though we are up against the best in the world, our Aussie team members have that strong fighting spirit and we will do our very best.

“Our biggest challenge is team chemistry: our full squad will only get a chance to meet and greet each other in Las Vegas two days before the competition so we are quite keen to really bond with one another and show the rest of the world that we are ready, united and aiming for that elusive gold.”

Last year, Queensland crew Runway was the only Australian group that made it as far as the semi-finals.

The highest place that Australia ever achieved was in 2007/2008, when Australian dance crew KSTAR finished fourth place in the world junior division and barely missed out on a medal.

This year, the championship will be contested by national teams from Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Selorio is the founder and CEO of Hoopdreamz, a basketball promotion company. He holds the record of bringing in to the country top basketball players and world-class dance teams from the Philippines, including two-time world hip hop dance champions Philippine Allstars.

He is currently the PRO of the Philippine Communities Council of NSW.