Inside the UDO Street Dance world championships

Take a look inside the Winter Gardens as the world's fiercest street dance competition comes to Blackpool.  FILMED AND EDITED BY LUCINDA HERBERT

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00:00UDO is now 25 years old, alright, so the World Championships, we actually celebrate our 20th anniversary.

00:07If we think back to our very first one here in Blackpool, I think we had just the Emperor's Ballroom

00:14and we probably had 500 people, you know, maybe from about five or six different countries.

00:20Now, you look at it today where there'll be somewhere in the region of 10,000 people here, 5,000 to 6,000 dancers.

00:27We try to really make it an experience, so yes, there is competition and that's what you're here for,

00:33but we also offer workshops, we offer Q&As, they get to meet the judges and ask questions, there's judges training here.

00:41Yeah, there's an awful lot going on while these kids are here still competing.

00:46And in street dance you have numerous different styles of dance, but yeah, it's definitely the longevity of the dance style is here now,

00:56it's been here for the last 40 years and it'll always be here.

00:59What judges are looking for is that dancer that pushes those boundaries, that uses, still using the foundations,

01:06but listening to music, using their musicality to make them stand out.

01:12They're looking at the energy, they're looking at creativity, so yeah, it's a combination of all those really,

01:19that will make a dancer stand out.