In association with Limerick City and County Council, we start our year with the Top 8 Street Dance & Hip Hop Festival in Limerick - a full weekend celebrating Street Dance & Hip Hop culture!

Top 8 Vol. 8 returns to Dublin November 18th for the outreach workshops at Fade Street Studios & 19th at The Well for the Battles \ Exhibitions and Cyphers to showcase street dance and Hip-hop culture in its raw and authentic form.

This year we will focus on crew battles & exchanges paying homage to how the art-form came to be, it could be said that without crews/squads in the Hip-hop culture, Hip-hop would not have been widely spread the way it did and also possessing the qualities of a highly influential artform.

We will have old & new crews take to the stage both nationally and internationally, to showcase in an exhibition battle where there are no judges or the pressure of having one, which will allow each crew to fully showcase their artistry.

Dedicated cyphers will also break out allowing for a Cypher King & Queen to be crowed. Local and National dance school will also take to stage to showcase short pieces of street dance choreography to represent their locality, schools and most importantly themselves.

We will hold a national ranking Breaking 1 vs 1 battle in line with the Irish Olympic Committee(IOC), Breaking Ireland and Dance sport Federation of Ireland (DFI) to award point for the national breaking ranking table towards the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

The 18th will have the developmental aspect of the art form, which we have hosted in 3 counties so far. Limerick, Cork and Belfast. Where we will have workshops in

- Rap

-Street Dance (Breaking, Afro, Hip-hop)

-Graffiti

-Turntablism

All this will be free to the public to attend with limited capacity. We then close with an after party where we have turntablism, DJ, MCee and Beatboxers, which will be strictly for over 18’s.

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Breaking Irish Crews

We will be calling on the following Irish crews for Top 8. 5V5 Exhibition Crew Battles

• Recession Squad #Dublin/Waterford

• Northernsole #Belfast/Wexford

• Limerockers #Limerick/Waterford

• Limerockers Crew Next Gen #Limerick

• Rthym Rebels / Outliers Cru #Cork/Waterford

• Dublin City Bboys #Dublin

Special Exhibition Battles:

Top 8 Team Ireland VS All Girls Breaking Team from UK🇬🇬(Invited crew)

Popping Crew battles

• IndaPockect Crew VS Dimensional Minds

Breaking Ireland Ranking Judges

• Bboy Arnie Northernsoles Cru)

• Seb (Northernsoles Cru)

• P (Bad Taste Crew)

Dance Schools / Crew Showcase

TBC

DJs

• DJ CC

• DJ BOG

• DJ Khanfu (UK)

This was funded and supported by the Dublin Dance Festival & Arts Council of Ireland

Top 8 Street Dance Battle will be carrying out free developmental workshop series to further authentically develop the ever-growing and vibrant Street Dance and Hip-Hop culture across Ireland and Northern Ireland.