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With the Guinness World Record attempt for the largest dance class looming on the horizon, the Dancesport Team Cebu City (DTCC) and the rest of the organizers are bracing themselves for a grand finale on June 27 at the Cebu City Sports Center grounds.
Expectation for the record-breaking feat are steadily rising with each passing day. However, the organizers remain unfazed as they are wholly intent on bringing Cebu its very first world record. Initially, they were targeting 3,000 participants for the event but as of press time, 7,000-8,000 people are already expected to join.
Cebu is vying to shatter the record which is currently held by Budapest, Hungary after it gathered 2,289 people for a dance class at the Életfa-Hosök tornája. The previous record holder was Moscow, Russia with 1,830 people.
Cebu City Councilor Sylvan “Jack” Jakosalem along with Cebu City Sports Center manager Ricky Ballesteros is confident that the record will surely be broken and will remain in the record book for many years to come.
“The record will fall. It will not just be an attempt,” said Jakosalem at the press conference yesterday at the CCSC conference room, where he was joined by Ballesteros, DTCC director Edward Hayco, DTCC head coach Loloi Rendon and Nenita Pardenilla of the Department of Education.
“We have come up with a record that would not be broken so easily. It is something that we can be proud of and it says a lot about or passion that we can dance and have fun in spite of the crisis that we are facing,” Ballesteros said.
Expected to help break the record are people from Cebu City’s 80 barangays and students from member private schools of the Cebu Sports and Athletics Foundation Inc. (Cesafi), public and private schools affiliated with the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education, hip hop and other dance groups and organizations.
The Abellana National School alone has pledged 4,000 students to help achieve the feat.
Hayco said that apart from being the “Dance Capital of Asia,” they would like to be the dance capital of the world. He is banking on the Cebuanos' soul for dancing, something that is evident in its yearly mardi gras, the Sinulog.
“Not everybody in the world can dance. What makes us different is that we have the soul and the passion for it. The rest of the world will see that next weekend,” Hayco said.
