Our dear fellow JCI friends world wide are contributing to the Hungarian dance competition for the JCI European conference in June. We are very impressed by the brave Finnish dancers who are dancing in swim suits in the snow !!! Off course they go straight into the sauna to warm up.

Now it is time for JCI London to do the famous dance. All dance instructions, music and links to other YouTube clips are available on the following sites:
“How to dance” instruction video
Clips of other Chambers dance efforts

Do you want to be one of the dancers, then please contact Sofie Sandell. If the weather allows us, we will film the dance on Sunday 5th April for a few hours. Do you want to perform in front of Big Ben and Tower bridge? Then your moment is here.

Please have a look at what other chambers around the world have done:

The dance song performed by Nox – Forogj Vilag in Eurovision Song contest 2005 (a more advanced version of the dance)

Forogj, világ! (English translation: “Spin, World!”) was the Hungarian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in Hungarian by NOX. The song is folk-inspired, in which the singer asks the world to continue spinning in order that she may discover more about herself. She sings “I want to be somewhere else for a long time”, implying that she is impatient for the world to spin in order to leave her old life behind.

The Eurovision performance featured Hungarian folk dancers, reminiscent of Ruslana’s energetic performance of “Wild Dances” at the 2004 Contest, as well as of Riverdance (itself a former Contest interval act). At the opening, a solo dancer (Tamás Nagy} was eventually joined by four others who provided vocal support for lead singer Szilvia Péter Szabó, who wore a revealing black costume and performed a simplified version of the dance routine during the chorus.

As Hungary had not taken part in the Contest since 1998, the song was initially performed in the semi-final of the Contest. Here, it was performed fifteenth (following Romania’s Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem with “Let Me Try” and preceding Finland’s Geir Rönning with “Why”). In the semi-final voting, it received 167 points, and placed 5th in the 25-strong field; high enough to qualify for the final.

In the final, it was performed first (preceding the United Kingdom’s Javine with Touch My Fire). At the close of voting, it had received 97 points, placing 12th in a field of 24 despite strong early results.