On November 17th, the 2019 Hunan College Sports Dance Competition was held in Gymnasium(1), including the finals and prize-giving ceremonies of Women’s Single Latin, Fitness Ballroom Dancing and Group Dancing, which were held in the morning, the afternoon and the evening respectively.
To start with, the Single Latin competition covered five categories: Rumba, Cha-cha, Samba, Jive and Paso Doble. Long Zhenzhen, a student majoring in sports dance from the School of Arts of HNUST, won the first prize in women’s single cha-cha. She said that she felt honored to win glory for HNUST as the home player.
In the afternoon, the Fitness Ballroom Dancing final was held. Forty groups of fitness ballroom dancers reached the final, which included three categories–university groups, college groups and vocational college groups. More than ten types of dances were performed in the competition, such as Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Rumba, etc. These dances had their unique styles and rhythms. With bright lights blazing on the stage, dancers all presented fabulous performances.
After more than two hours’ intense competition, the three groups were ranked according to the scores given by the professional jury. Then, the prizes were awarded by Hu Binliang, Secretary of Party Committee of the School of Physical Education, Jing Longjun, Dean of the School of Physical Education, and Li Yixiang, Vice President of Federation of Social Sciences.
In the evening, there were 15 groups participating in the Group Dance final, which covered international style of ballroom dancing, performance dancing and ballroom dancing.
This event was presided over by Liu Liping, a national dancing teacher from Hunan Sports Vocational College, who explained, “This competition is based on the principle of fairness and impartiality. Every group is scored electronically on site, which can be seen immediately after the performance.” Apart from that, the start order was assigned randomly before the competition.
(Translated by Lu Ziyao and Jiang Xiaofeng)
