The Break Down Dance Battle on Saturday December 3, 2011 ended in a brawl when a member of the Dzivarasekwa based dancing group, Real Flex, exchanged blows with the master of ceremony (MC),Oasis. The Real Flex member’s temper arose when his group failed to make it into the final round of the contest citing the judges were supporting uptown groups. It is also alleged that the MC knew some of the members from the winning group.
The grieved Real Flex group felt the MC had showered praises to the winning Platinum Dogs who are now the 2011 Break Down Dance Battle champions.
Left: MC Oasis does his thing before the fight.
When the wrangle began, the fully packed 7 Arts Theatre had to come to a standstill. Some people who were present also joined the squabble while a few were trying to restrain the wrangle. The rest of the audience which was made up of kids from the Harare suburbs booed members of the Real Flex group. The event was poorly manned by a few members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, thus it took close to 15 minutes for the fracas to come to an end.
Zimbo Jam spoke to the youthful looking member of Real Flex who had confronted the MC, to try and get a comment on what had made him act the way he did. The fuming dancer refused to identify himself but claimed, “this is not the first time we have been cheated by these guys, it happened last year and it seems they are favoring guys from uptown.”
“We did our best and those other guys preformed dismally and ever since this concert began no groups from the ghetto have ever won this competition,” said the livid dancer.
Another group member added, “all these organisers and judges masalads ese they just want to complement maface avo.”
Contrary to the claims made by the Dzivarasekwa based group, Zimbo Jam can testify that neither the MC nor the judges had anything to do with their failure to clinch the top title. The judging on which teams should qualify for the final round was made by the crowd.
One of the organizers of the event who identified himself as Trix scoffed at claims that the dispute had something to do with the show saying, “it comes from their personal issues, these kids know each other so they are only using this competition as a platform to express their bitter feelings.”
Trix went on to say that, “we gave all these groups flyers to give out their friends in the neighborhood, they don’t have to blame the judges because this decision has been made by the crowd. If they had brought their friends from their neighborhood they would have received support like what Platinum Dogs did.”
Out of 11 groups which clashed for the title, Platinum Dogs came out first while Bulawayo based Antivirus came second.
From Zimbo Jam by Anozivashe Shumba
The grieved Real Flex group felt the MC had showered praises to the winning Platinum Dogs who are now the 2011 Break Down Dance Battle champions.Left: MC Oasis does his thing before the fight.
When the wrangle began, the fully packed 7 Arts Theatre had to come to a standstill. Some people who were present also joined the squabble while a few were trying to restrain the wrangle. The rest of the audience which was made up of kids from the Harare suburbs booed members of the Real Flex group. The event was poorly manned by a few members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, thus it took close to 15 minutes for the fracas to come to an end.
Zimbo Jam spoke to the youthful looking member of Real Flex who had confronted the MC, to try and get a comment on what had made him act the way he did. The fuming dancer refused to identify himself but claimed, “this is not the first time we have been cheated by these guys, it happened last year and it seems they are favoring guys from uptown.”
“We did our best and those other guys preformed dismally and ever since this concert began no groups from the ghetto have ever won this competition,” said the livid dancer.
Another group member added, “all these organisers and judges masalads ese they just want to complement maface avo.”
Contrary to the claims made by the Dzivarasekwa based group, Zimbo Jam can testify that neither the MC nor the judges had anything to do with their failure to clinch the top title. The judging on which teams should qualify for the final round was made by the crowd.
One of the organizers of the event who identified himself as Trix scoffed at claims that the dispute had something to do with the show saying, “it comes from their personal issues, these kids know each other so they are only using this competition as a platform to express their bitter feelings.”
Trix went on to say that, “we gave all these groups flyers to give out their friends in the neighborhood, they don’t have to blame the judges because this decision has been made by the crowd. If they had brought their friends from their neighborhood they would have received support like what Platinum Dogs did.”
Out of 11 groups which clashed for the title, Platinum Dogs came out first while Bulawayo based Antivirus came second.
From Zimbo Jam by Anozivashe Shumba
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