The MELOSAGA Malaysia Street Dance and Music Festival, Malaysia’s first and largest Street Dance and Music Festival announced the list of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the inaugural event this coming 13 to 15 January 2023.
Co-presented by UNC Entertainment and Base Entertainment Asia, the Festival is an essential street dance and music event on festival lovers’ calendar and will take place at MINES International Exhibition & Convention Centre (MIECC), Kuala Lumpur.
Spanning over three days, MELOSAGA comprises three events that will provide an all-encompassing experience that summonses festival lovers to leave their hustle and bustle behind, and immerse themselves in the whirlwind of music and dance as well as street culture discovery – ESCAPISM; the concert, BATTLESAGA; international and local dance competitions, and K-DIMENSION; K-Culture Carnival with 100 carnival booths.
K-DIMENSION
K-DIMENSION, the K-Culture component, will be held across all three days to showcase the magic of K-Culture and K-Pop.
The Phaze International, an international dance showcase competition will take center stage on the first day of K-Dimension as the 2023 version wishes to follow the success of the first season in 2022 to attract dancers from more than 25 countries to compete for a USD 5,000 cash prize and the opportunity to perform on ESCAPISM as the opening act.
Festivalgoers will also have a chance to join YG Audition for YG Entertainment, the K-Pop mega label which is best known as the agency behind the successes of BLACKPINK and BIG BANG.
Besides the opportunity to witness YGX, the dance arm of YG Entertainment involving two female choreographers, Yeo Jin and Jihyo who are BLACKPINK’s backup dancers and also from ‘Street Women Fighter’ and a male choreographer, Moodok from ‘Street Man Fighter’, K-DIMENSION also provides opportunities for participants to learn from famous artist choreographers from South Korea at the YGX Star Workshop.
ESCAPISM
ESCAPISM is a street music festival that will be held on 14 January featuring K-Pop heavyweights Zico and Crush among the headliners who will be making their debut appearances in Malaysia, along with Shigga Shay, YGX, DOLLA, ForceParkBois, DJ Raiden, 3P and many more who are no strangers to Malaysian music lovers.
BATTLE SAGA
The street dance component of the Festival puts together an impressive mix of local and international dance competitions starting with the RF JAM MALAYSIA QUALIFIER ROUND. Winners from the 4v4 Breaking and 3v3 All-Style will win a sponsored trip to RF JAM 2023 in Vietnam.
On the same day, there will also be a SDACA Championship where international and national all-star dancers will compete to be the champion of BATTLESAGA.
Dylan Chyo, founder of UNC Entertainment said, “More than just the headliners, MELOSAGA is the first-of-its-kind street music and dance competitions and carnival in Malaysia, which brings together an impressive line-up of regional performances, workshops and street culture elements, here at Kuala Lumpur. Developed as an alcohol-free event, it is suitable for young and old alike.”
Chantal Prudhomme, Chief Executive Officer of Base Entertainment Asia added, “We are thrilled to be working with UNC Entertainment to present MELOSAGA, a music and dance festival which will connect entertainment with street culture by bringing established artists and emerging acts, both regional and local, under one roof.”
Tickets for MELOSAGA will be available from 9PM on 8 December 2022 at RM 35.
Ticket prices for ESCAPISM start at RM259 for basic admission; RM359 for Cat B; RM459 for CAT A; RM559 for Rock Zone. Prices exclude processing fee and transaction charges. There is a 10 percent Early Bird discount between 8 to 11 December.
More information about the festival can be found at the festival website: http://www.melosaga.com.
About UNC Entertainment
UNC is a company that provides the most entertaining events that unite the beauty of street dance and the audience who loves K-pop and street dance together as one.
Since 2010, UNC has been recognized as the largest youth street dance company with more than 14 supporting schools, 3 street dance studios, over 1000 youth dancers, and 35 dance instructors under its belt. Besides this, our NGO company, Malaysia Street Dance Organization is endorsed by the Ministry of Education for organizing the annual state team dance competition consisting of teams from Melaka, Johor, Selangor, Wilayah Persekutuan, and Sarawak.
Apart from dance education, we’ve also ventured into productions, dance competitions such as The Phaze International whereby it is one of the largest street dance competitions globally with more than 25 countries’ participation rate, international artists global dance workshops (Jackson Wang, Kinjaz, BornPink, etc), music and dance festivals as well as international auditions (YG Global Audition).
UNC Entertainment consists of UNC Production, Uncommon Dance Studios and UNC Schools. With these products under its arm, UNC Entertainment produced many successful dance competition events, TV shows, music videos, commercials and many more that cater most to the street culture such as Astro Battleground, 8TV Ultimate Dance Crew, JD Sports international commercials, Nike commercial, JBL commercial and many local artists’ music video such as Dolla, Meernash, and others.
The main purpose behind UNC is to create an eco-system for the talents in Malaysia to have a better platform, stage and opportunity both locally and internationally.
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