URBAN ESSENTIALS 2024

INTERNATIONAL HIP-HOP CULTURE AND DANCE FESTIVAL URBAN ESSENTIALS

// REGISTRATION to 2vs2 dance battles – below!

 

IT IS TIME TO MEET.
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FESTIVAL GUESTS:

 

DJ:
Renegade (UK)
Lucas Benjamin (NL)
Tomche (LT)

 

MC:
Beep (LT)
Jimmi Saito (LT)

 

JUDGES (2vs2):
B-Girl Frieda Frost (DE)
Rada (IT)
Sophie May (FR)
Sekou Heru (USA)
Marvel (UK)

 

 

PRIZES AND PRIZE FUND:
4000 eur. and sponsors‘ gifts.
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SPECTATOR TICKET: https://www.bilietai.lt/eng/tickets/teatras/hip-hop-kulturos-festivalis-urban-essentials-93864/ 
PARTICIPANT TICKET: https://store.bilietai.lt/public/en/event/446726/purchase

 

! From NOVEMBER 11th participant and spectator ticket price will rise 5€.
! Participants can register to the battles untill NOVEMBER 13th 23:59.
! From then registration will be stopped.
! Participant tickets won’t be selled at the door.

 

 

**all 2vs2 battles participants have to fill in the registration form and have a participant ticket.
**all preselections participants can watch the second day battles for free (with the participant bracelet). You don’t need to buy seperate spectator ticket.
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PROGRAM.
NOVEMBER 14-17, 22-23th

Symposium, premiere, dance battles, open discussions, guests performances, dance performances, Hip-Hop, House, Breaking, Popping and Waacking dance workshops with guests from France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and USA.

 

 

> NOVEMBER 14th:
A day dedicated to street dance in a theatre space, this year in a non-traditional theatre space, Lukiškės prison.

Street dance performance TRANSFORMAN (lit.VYRSMAS)
Idea, choreography, performance: Marius Eidrigevičius

Time: 19:00
Place: Lukiškės prison (Lukiškių skg. 6, Vilnius), The dome/Kupolas.
TICKETS: https://www.bilietai.lt/…/gatves-sokio-spektaklis…/

 

> NOVEMBER 15th:
A day dedicated to the preselections for all dance styles.

 

2vs2 Breaking preselections
2vs2 Funk styles* preselections
2vs2 House preselections
2vs2 Hip-Hop preselections

 

*Funk styles – one categorie, for all Funk styles (popping, waacking, locking). Different Funk styles dancers can team up and participate together (for example: two dancers, one representing popping, other locking dance style).

 

Time: 17:30 (Doors open at 16:00)
Venue: Lukiškės Prison 2.0 (Lukiškių skg. 6, Vilnius), The dome/Kupolas

 

> NOVEMBER 16th:
A day dedicated to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of all dance styles.

2vs2 House | Breaking | Funk styles | Hip-Hop
TOP 8 / TOP 4 / FINALS
GUESTS PERFORMANCES

 

Time: 16:00 (Doors open at 15:00)
Venue: Lukiškės prison (Lukiškių skg. 6, Vilnius), The Church/Cerkvė

 

Social Party with DJ Tomche (LT)

 

NOVEMBER 17th:

A day dedicated to dance workshops.

Hip-Hop, Waacking, Popping, House, Breaking workshops with guests from France, Italy, United Kingdom, USA and Germany.

Workshops:

11:00-12:30 HIP-HOP | Sophie May (FR)
13:00-14:30 WAACKING | Rada (IT)
15:00-16:30 POPPING | Marvel (UK)
17:00-18:30 HOUSE | Sekou Heru (USA)
19:00-20:30 BREAKING | B-Girl Frieda Frost (DE)

 

REGISTRATION: https://lowair.lt/en/veiklos/renginiai/urban-essentials-workshops-2024/

Place: Low Air dance school (Gedimino av. 2A, 3 floor, Vilnius)

 

PRICES:

1 workshop – 25€
2 workshops – 45€
3 workshops – 60€
4 workshops – 75€
5 workshops – 90€

 

Payment for the workshops via bank transfer until November 11th.

 

> NOVEMBER 22-23th:

PREMIERE. Breaking dance performance TOGETHER ALONE (lit. VIENUDU)
Chor. Airida Gudaitė, Laurynas Žakevičius, Rokas Šaltenis

Time: 20:00 / 18:00
Place: Sapieha palace (L. Sapiegos g. 13, Vilnius)

TICKETS: https://www.bilietai.lt/eng/search:vienudu/

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This event is partially funded by: Vilnius city municipality, Baltic American Freedom Foundation, Germany Embassy in Lithuania, Puma.

We say: “Peace, love, unity and having fun!”
See you soon!

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