Lee-Shane Booysen wins 2019 Red Bull Dance Your Style South Africa

6 Aug 2019

The 26-year-old street dancer Lee-Shane Booysen from Cape Town will represent South Africa in Paris after winning the SA leg of the 2019 Red Bull Dance Your Style competition. He will compete with more than 30 talented street dancers from around the globe.

Booysen secured the chance to compete for a life-changing opportunity when he proved to be a phenomenal street dancer with unmatched improvisational skills, reining victorious and outmatching 15 other dancers from various regions across South Africa.

Lee-Shane Booysen wins 2019 Red Bull Dance Your Style South Africa

The regional qualifiers took place in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg –which culminated in the Red Bull Dance Your Style national finals at Johannesburg's Newtown Music Factory (former Baseline).

Unbelievable

“This is a big moment for me, and I am excited to be the one heading to Paris to represent South Africa,” commented Booysen. “A part of me still cannot believe I have won because I thought the competition at regional level was tough but the finals were tougher."

After more than 60 events held in more than 30 countries all over the world, the global street dance battle will bring together only the most exceptionally talented dancers to compete at the first-ever World Final. The big decider will take place on Saturday, 12 October 2019 at Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France.

Booysen will be accompanied by Soweto's Teboho Diphehlo, who won the first Red Bull Dance Your Style in 2018 when he won the crowd over with moves that went beyond his trademark pantsula style.

Skills and personality

Sustaining the universal novelty of the competition, the Paris leg of Red Bull Dance Your Style will continue giving freedom to dancers by allowing them to completely express their skills and personality through one-on-one battles.

There's no planned choreography – dancers will have to thrill and rock the audience by quickly adapting their chosen style to surprising tunes, from recent global hits to old-time classics.

Whoever shows off the coolest steps in interaction with rhythm, lyrics and instruments and manages to wow the crowd and win their vote will become a crowned winner.