Most dance styles danced to one track
One Leicester has been celebrating the refurbishment of Leicester City Centre and the opening of Highcross with the One Rhythm Dance Festival. The festival reached a dazzling climax on 5 October 2008 at 4pm, on Humberstone Gate West, with an exciting programme of dance and street arts which saw Leicester, UK, making history achieving a Guinness World Record as it broke record for the most dance styles performed simultaneously to one music track.
Hundreds of people participated in the record-breaking attempt and 48 styles of dance were performed in the presence of Guinness World Records Adjudicator, Rob Molloy. The atmosphere was electric and the dance styles eclectic and Leicester beat the record held by The Big Dance that took place in July 2006 in Trafalgar Square, London, UK.
Tess Booth, Project Manager for One Leicester, Leicester City Council comments: “The grand finale to the One Rhythm Dance festival was a spectacular event. Dancers and crowds turned out in their droves to take part in the record attempt as well as to see the stunning stage shows we had. It was so exciting waiting to see if the Guinness World Records Adjudicator would grant the record and the crowd went mad when we achieved it.”
The programme of dances was truly awe inspiring with everything from urban street dance to Polish Folk, Tanzanian acrobats to hot Latin rhythms and even members of the general public joined in dancing to the disco beat.
10 October 2008