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Young Lao dancer C-Lil recently made a big splash in the regional break dance scene when he won the Airtrack competition in the Challenge Cup Final 2012 in Taiwan.
Phayviboune Silimoung-khoun, known as C-Lil, along with Paseuth Lousengsy, or Joker O’Tee, and Tommy Ditthavong, known as Tomizuka, who are both from the Lao Bangfai dance troupe represented Laos at the regional dance event.
The competition took place from August 18-19, and the Bangfai duo were competing with 200 other dancers from Taiwan, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, the United States and Malaysia.
“Since break dancing is my passion I was very happy to win this event as it is our dream to show off our ability on stage,” C-Lil said.
“Even though we haven’t had many opportunities to compete at the regional level before, I think we have a good background and try to enjoy the challenge instead of worrying about our performance or the other competitors. We weren’t nervous because we were well-prepared from other events,” C-Lil said.
He said this was second time that Lao dancers have been in Taiwan for dance competitions; the first one was in June this year for the R16 Southeast Asia Final. This was the first year of the Challenge Cup Final and the Lao Brewery Company was able to sponsor the Lao Bangfai dancers to attend the event.
Tomizuka said the Challenge Cup Final 2012 included several competitions such as solo battles, crew battles, tricks and combo battles as well as seven to smoke power moves.
He said C-Lil won the Airtrack contest with 51 rounds, defeating a dancer named RM from Taiwan who did 39 rounds. Airtrack is a move using only your hands and hopping from hand to hand in a circular motion.
C-Lil also reached second place in the seven to smoke powermoves competition and tied with dancer Gred from Taiwan with 4 points while the winner of the event was famous South Korean dancer Kill.
“C-Lil was a highlight of the event because of his high level of technical dancing skill and has confirmed an invitation to next year’s event from B-boy Choco. After this event, C-Lil has become more famous and more people know about the capacity of Lao break dancers,” Tomizuka said.
After this significant achievement for Lao break dancers, C-Lil is headed to join the Red Bull BC ONE Asia Pacific Qualifier that will take place September 1, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. Red Bull BC ONE is one of the biggest solo B-boy battles worldwide.
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