We’re gonna rock, rock, rock
Miah Smith (12, left) and Macy Crossan (11) dance for the top spot in the South Island Invitation Competition’s samesex category at the South Dunedin Community Hall on Saturday.
They were two of about 45 rock ’n’ roll dancers, most of them from Invercargill and Christchurch and aged between 5 and 80, who entered the competition.
Both girls have danced for the Invercargill Rock ’n’ Roll Club for about five years.
Macy said she joined the club after being told about it by Miah’s cousin while at a rugby tournament, and it was not long before Miah took up rock ’n’ roll dancing too.
The girls agreed the straddle was their favourite move to pull to impress the judges.
Dunedin Rock ’N’ Roll Revival Club president Margaret Cameron said about 150 people gathered at the hall to either compete or support the dancers.
She was relieved to see the competition, which had been held since about 1989, go ahead, after its brief cancellation on Tuesday night due to the move to Covid19 Alert Level 2.
After about five hours of competitive dancing, a social dance began at 7.30pm and the dancers freestyled into the evening.