CrewQ prides itself as Qatar's very own street dance group! The dance group consists of students enrolled at the My First Eight Count - MFEC Street Dance, a dance training centre in Qatar.
The group was formed by selecting par excellence students of the dance school to represent Qatar globally through dance, and the crew is now continued to be managed by MFEC Street Dance.
CrewQ rose to fame after winning the champions title of the 2022 UDO World Championship U16 category in the United Kingdom. They represented Qatar amongst the 6,000 dance participants from over 35 countries.
For the year 2023, CrewQ is in the works of attempting to add more gems to its crown as they will be representing Qatar in 2 categories at the 2023 UDO World Championship. CrewQ Sr and CrewQ Jr groups will be participating in the 'CrewQ Sr Members Under 18 Category Novice' and 'CrewQ Jr Members Under 14 Category Beginner', respectively.
Before the teams head out for their challenge, the ILoveQatar.net (ILQ) team got in touch with CrewQ Jr & CrewQ Sr to learn more about them and shed some light on their preparation for the competition.
CrewQ Team: CrewQ Sr is a 9-member group who have come together from diverse nationalities, such as the Philippines, Australia, Lebanon, France, Greece, Italy and the USA but are residents of Qatar and take pride in representing the country at a global level. The group members are as young as 12 years old and with the oldest member being 18 years old.
Group member names are as follows: Froilan (Captain), Diva, Haya, Karen, Maeva, Orfeas, Carla, Zoya & Lauryn.
CrewQ Team: The CrewQ Jr group also consists of 9 members from Lebanon, Japan, the UK, Poland, Indonesia, Singapore & the Philippines, with the youngest member of the group being 9 years old and the oldest being 15 years old.
Group member names are as follows: Carlina (Captain), Karina, Livia, Sydnee, Lily, Aliya, Aurelia, Machayla & Janella.
CrewQ Team: The senior team is looked over by choreographer Gerald Hernandez, who was also the coach behind the 2022 win, whilst the junior team is under the training and choreography of Rudy Hernandez.
Both the teams also undergo fitness and conditioning training which is taken care of by Coach Ayoub.
CrewQ Team: The team members were handpicked from the best of the best advanced-level students from the MFEC Street Dance Academy who had to go through auditions before being selected for the team.
The chosen team members passed with a merit of 100 scores in all aspects of the evaluation.
CrewQ Team: We were able to secure our position at the 2023 competition for the CrewQ Sr team because of the championship victory at the 2022 UDO World Championship.
CrewQ Team: Both CrewQ teams have been undergoing intensive training where they have been covering the entire curriculum of their enrolled course (advanced level) twice a week.
From April to July, we have been spending 7 hours on Fridays and Saturdays rigorously training and rehearsing along with fitness and conditioning drills, individual coaching sessions and counselling.
CrewQ Team: The ultimate goal for us as CrewQ is to "Scale up every year" and eventually bring home a championship trophy in all the categories.
CrewQ Team: The opportunity to represent our country is a great experience for each of us. In last year's competition, we saw tears of joy while representing Qatar in the most prominent dance sports spectacle on the planet, and it was indeed overwhelming.
We believe Qatar should only have the best, and CrewQ is giving it back to Qatar.
CrewQ Team: Unlike the previous year, the 2023 championship will feature 2 of our teams representing Qatar which in itself is a change. The senior team is excited about the challenge as they have scaled up their dance pieces for the upcoming competition and have a few new members.
Being the first time for our junior team, we have prepared them with vibrant choreographic pieces to face the competition.
CrewQ Team: We have got our eyes on participating in many competitions in 2025, such as World of Dance, Hip Hop International & Body Rocks, which take place in the USA, for which we will be going through a two-year cycle of training preparation to participate.
Go to Hamilton International School on 18 August 2023, and check out the CrewQ Send-Off Show 2023, which features the premiere of CREWQ competition pieces and includes MFEC Summer Camp Students pieces.
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