Dance World Cup
The Dance World Cup is a competition that brings together, in one event, the modalities of classic, contemporary, hip-hop, street dance, acro dance, jazz, tap dancing, commercial, national folklore and, for the first time in 2019 and later in 2013, ballroom dances. The high standard of the Dance World Cup encourages, in addition to individual performances, group dances. In the 2019 edition, Portugal had a team of 700 dancers, which resulted from the choice of the first 4 classified in each of the 8 categories. In total, more than 6000 athletes, from 53 countries, competed over the last week at Altice Forum Braga, which in turn received 100,000 visits with this event. The Portuguese delegation was one of the great sensations of the competition, winning second place on the podium just behind England. In total, Portuguese athletes and athletes won 93 medals, 37 gold, 24 silver and 32 bronze. During the 9 days of competitions, there were about 3 thousand performances, 120 prize deliveries, 3 to 4 masterclasses per day, 4 galas where all the gold medallists performed and a parade with around 3,500 dancers, who walked the streets of the city of Braga to the sound of the hymns of each country.