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This is the Red Bull Dance Your Style 2026 World Final line-up
Eight were invited. Eight battled their way in. Meet the dancers lining up for the sixth edition of the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final.
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After electrifying World Finals in Paris, Johannesburg, Frankfurt, Mumbai, and Los Angeles, Zurich hosts Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final 2026, a thrilling 1-vs-1 showdown, uniting genre-defying freestylers from more than 54 countries.
From that field, 16 dancers make it to the Hallenstadion. Eight are wildcards: invited dancers, hand-picked for their razor-sharp rhythm, unique styles, and next-level stage presence. The other eight fought their way in the hard way, through qualifiers, national finals, and two pre-finals, beating the best in their countries to book a place in Zurich.
These are their stories.
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Candyman
Candyman is a versatile hip-hop and locking freestyler
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Paris-based hip-hop and locking artist Candyman was born in the Republic of the Congo. A natural showman, he organised concerts on the playground while dancing rumba with his cousins and mum. At age 12, when his family moved to France, he started dancing after losing a bet at school. The forfeit? A year of dance lessons that quickly turned into a passion for battling and locking, followed by two Juste Debout wins: once in the classic locking 2 vs 2 and the other dominating the high-speed 1 vs 1 battle 'Who's The Fastest'.
He has locked down a spot with the Badness Crew, self-directed and choreographed short dance films, and starred in the television competition Street Dance of China. All of that, while balancing a second life as a skilled accountant. His stage name comes from always carrying sweets for a potential extra energy boost.
After becoming a father of two, he redirected his love of battling into teaching, eventually focusing on dance 100 percent. He has helped champion locking on the all-style circuit while mentoring a new generation of dancers.
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Stalamuerte
Stalamuerte represents the host country Switzerland
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Stalamuerte, who's based in Switzerland, ditched his first love, football, for dance, hitting the Juste Debout finals three years running with his partner and fellow Red Bull All Star, Jean-Michel Cruel, before finally winning in 2019.
Stalamuerte started breaking at seven, later weaving krump and other street styles into his repertoire. His first performance came at 14, when he took part in a street show with a friend and “people went crazy”. The moment changed his life forever, cementing his dream of pursuing dance.
Since then, he and Jean-Michel Cruel have built a clothing brand and founded Los Diablos de la Muerte, a global dance collective championing individual styles of the next generation of dancers. He’s taught international workshops, appeared in music videos and modelling campaigns, and created cinematic dance films for the Hasta la Muerte series. Now, Stalamuerte dreams of opening Switzerland’s first hip-hop institute, bringing dance, beat-making, writing and visual arts under one roof.
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Capjay
Capjay represents the new generation of US dancers
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A 19-year-old from Long Beach, California, Capjay moves between styles with the instinct of someone who refuses to be defined by just one. At three, he made his dance debut on kids’ TV show Hip Hop Harry, later honing his moves in the living room to the records his mum had on rotation. A self-taught hip-hop freestyler, he branched out from breaking into other street styles as a teen. His first love was basketball, but after entering a battle in Las Vegas, he was hooked on the spot by the adrenaline, freedom and energy of competition. His basketball dreams were history.
Capjay is a self-professed “dance addict”, fusing a plethora of hip-hop styles with clever wordplay, popping, intricate footwork and gravity-defying power moves. Away from the dancefloor, he produces music as Capbeats and is known on the circuit for his rotating collection of thrifted hats and a jangling keychain built from tour souvenirs.
In 2025, he won the Red Bull Dance Your Style South USA Qualifier in Tampa and, in 2026, the 2 vs 2 hip-hop battle at Italy’s prestigious Give It Up, partnering with Red Bull All Star The D Soraki. He’s since hosted his own battles, taught workshops, and judged worldwide. Right now, he's aiming to become the first Red Bull Dance Your Style World Champion from the USA.
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Lockerzee
Lockerzee is an energetic locker from South Korea
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Lockerzee is a world-renowned locker and hip-hop dancer raised in a rural area with no street-dance education around, outside Seosan in South Korea. She got herself into an arts high school through self-taught breaking and discovered locking in an after-school class.
She won Summer Dance Forever, one of the biggest dance events in the Netherlands, becoming the first Asian dancer to do so. After that, something exploded inside her. She won Female Dancer of the Year at the 2025 Choreo Awards and found herself in global demand. She’s also a member of prominent dance crews Non Stop Crew and Deep N Dap.
On stage, Lockerzee is powerful, charismatic, and known for her distinctive fashion style. Away from competition, she’s the complete opposite: “strong on the outside but emotional on the inside.” She loves reading, quiet environments and wants to get into singing, baking, and one day write a memoir. At the same time, she hopes to move into filming/directing dance videos and help pave the way for future generations of dancers in Korea.
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Limpopo Boy
Limpopo Boy brings South African Sbujwa to the world stage
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Limpopo Boy grew up in Botlokwa, a township in South Africa. His mother was a dancer and he began carving his own path in her footsteps, dancing on the streets outside the South African State Theatre in Pretoria. He built his name on Sbujwa, a local street dance style, and became one of the country’s most-followed dancers on social media. His freestyle videos caught the attention of famous South African DJ Cleo, who invited him to showcase his talent in music videos. Limpopo Boy’s unique fusion of Amapiano, Survivor Dance and South African street styles led to touring with Makhadzi and sharing stages with Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Usher and Wizkid.
In 2020, Limpopo Boy expanded into DJing and music production, giving him greater control over his work, while championing the Lekompo scene.
He’s now in the process of opening his own dance studio in Limpopo and treats his visibility as a responsibility to dancers without the opportunities he’s had, saying his mission at each event is “to awaken the spirit” of those back home who can’t access big stages, yet.
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Xelyna
Xelyna brings the energy of Spain's new gen hip-hop to Zurich
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Xelyna was born in Equatorial Guinea, where dance isn’t just a skill; it’s a shared language woven into the culture. Her home was “practically a dance academy”, surrounded by eight sisters and aunts who danced and nicknamed her “la bailarina”. Xelyna started with African dance before copying street dance moves from films. But she didn’t discover battling until a stranger messaged her on social media in 2018, convinced by her videos that she had the talent to prove herself in Madrid’s thriving street dance scene.
She moved to Madrid and gave herself one year to test her skills and see if she could make dance her profession. She trained relentlessly and soon began booking commercials and music videos, working as a backing dancer for major artists including Romeo Santos, Burna Boy, and Will and Jaden Smith. She’s also appeared in major campaigns for Nike, Maybelline, Lacoste and Bershka.
These days, Xelyna is a leading figure in Spain’s new-generation hip-hop scene, known for her flow, precise footwork and musicality, and her blend of old- and new-school styles. A member of Gkonceptz, Illicitz and Los Diablos de la Muerte, she also teaches in Madrid and shot to global attention as a last-minute wildcard at the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final 2023 in Frankfurt, where her gripping showdown went viral.
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SonYa
SonYa from Paris will show waacking and popping on the world stage
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SonYa is a French-Tunisian street dancer, choreographer, visual artist and photographer, widely recognised as a trailblazer of waacking in Paris and a skilled popper. She was inspired to start popping at 14 after watching the film You Got Served and then taught herself waacking by studying the dance style on YouTube.
SonYa has performed in major theatre productions across the globe with multiple companies and is used to commanding the attention of audiences. She won titles at Street Star, Hot Mess, Waacking Summer Sharing, and made it to the semi-finals of Juste Debout twice. She also co-founded the crew Collectif Ma Dame Paris.
Off the dance floor, she uses fine art photography to explore people and movement, and has created her own dance short film. Equipped with this unique set of skills, SonYa will step onto the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final stage for the first time.
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Chaa
Japanese krumper Chaa is a member of Tight Eyex Fam
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At only 10 years old, Chaa impressed krump legend Tight Eyez, who bestowed upon her the name Princess TightEyex. This became a pivotal moment that defined her dance style and trajectory. She also became the first Japanese member of TIGHT EYEX FAM, the infamous crew established by the krump pioneer.
Chaa quickly made her mark in krump, winning major international titles, including ILLEST in France, KING OF BUCK in Japan and European Buck Session in Germany. She holds three world krump titles, including ILLEST 2018, KOB 2018 and EBS 2019. She also left her mark on Japan’s D.LEAGUE during the 2024–25 season.
As a krumper, Chaa brings a powerful presence to the dancefloor, a striking contrast to her smaller stature that embodies her “don’t underestimate me” attitude. Before she even knew she would compete in Zurich, Chaa wrote “I won the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final” on her list of future goals, turning what she calls the biggest goal of her dance career into something she could already picture achieving.
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Sharay
Sharay is Colombia's all-style national champion
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Sharay has been dancing for 16 of her 20 years. That's four-fifths of a life spent in training, and it shows in a toolkit that refuses to specialise. The Colombian professional has trained across urban dance, jazz, ballet, contemporary and salsa. That's five disciplines that don't usually share a studio, let alone a battle. The result is a range that makes her hard to predict and harder to prepare for.
She also practises kung fu, which feeds straight back into her dancing, building the strength and endurance that underpin everything else. It's an unusual pairing, and it means she's unlikely to fade late in a battle or shrink from a physical one.
That mix carried her through the Red Bull Dance Your Style Colombia National Final and into the Zurich line-up. At 20, she arrives at the World Final with 16 years behind her and a style built to go the distance.
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Happyfeet
Happyfeet brings Polynesian dance from South Auckland to Zurich
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Happyfeet brings his roots to the dance floor. The 30-year-old Samoan hip-hop freestyler from Manurewa, South Auckland, infuses Polynesian dance into his battles - a difference you can spot within seconds of him touching the floor.
His skills are entirely self-taught. He learned breaking from YouTube tutorials at the public library, then worked his way through popping, locking, house, krump and hip-hop. Ask him to name a favourite and you'll be waiting a while. His love for dance transcends style preferences. That makes him hard to pin down in a one-on-one, especially when the music is not your regular dance-battle track.
A two-time Red Bull Dance Your Style New Zealand champion, he's been with Projekt Team since 2014 and now trains up-and-coming New Zealand dancers, passing on knowledge he once had to go out and find for himself. Zurich is his second Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final.
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Yoon Ji
Yoon Ji brings the fire from South Korea
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Yoon Ji describes her style in one word: fire. And the 29-year-old South Korean waacker has the résumé to back it up. Twelve years into her career, she's won The Queen of Disco in China (2025), one of the biggest waacking events in the world, and the waacking side at RF Jam in Vietnam (2026). Waacking is all arms and attitude, and Yoon Ji's take on it is fast, sharp and completely unbothered by whoever is standing opposite her.
She's also known well beyond the battle circuit. Yoon Ji danced with Mannequeen on Street Woman Fighter 2, sharing a screen with Waackxxxy, the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Champion from 2024.
Her own route to Zurich was built on persistence. Red Bull Dance Your Style South Korea took her three attempts; the third ended with the national title and a first-ever World Final. Twelve years of fire and Zurich finally gets to see what the noise is about.
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Slayer
Slayer blends popping with ballet and contemporary
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Slayer's story contains a sentence that stops a room: he won Red Bull Dance Your Style UK in 2026, 18 months after a double lung collapse.
The 19-year-old popper from Chesterfield has been dancing for 12 years and he's now a second-year ballet and contemporary student at Rambert School. That combination leads to a style he describes as spontaneous, raw and performative. Popping gives him the snap; ballet and contemporary give him the line.
His CV reads less like a 19-year-old's than a decade-long pro's career. He took the U16 Popping World Championships and, at 15, became the youngest-ever Open World Modern Jive Champion. He's part of the Go Ghetters Poppers crew and worked with the National Youth Dance Company at Sadler's Wells. Now he's putting all of it to the test at his first Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final.
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Lil Syd
Lil Syd turns every round into a show for Austria
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Lil Syd is in the entertainment business and the dance floor is his stage. The 27-year-old Austrian hip-hop dancer has been dancing for as long as he can remember, and his style is all about entertainment. He plays to the beat until every round turns into a show.
When he battles, the emphasis is not on landing the biggest trick, but on making the next 30 seconds impossible to look away from. He builds his performances around the music, the crowd and the moment, rather than a set routine. That approach has served him well. This year he was invited to Austria's national final as a wildcard, and left it as the 2026 Red Bull Dance Your Style Austria champion.
He teaches hip-hop and represents Da'Circus and the freestyle crew Gangsta Soul. Zurich will be his third Red Bull Dance Your Style and his second time on the World Final stage.
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Hector
Hector returns to the World Final stage for Denmark
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The Danish hip-hop dancer's skills are defined by technical precision and a happy, musical energy. He has the kind of control that makes complicated things look easy and a battle feel like a party. On the floor, that combination is disarming. Here's a dancer who can land the hardest sequences and grin his way through all of it. He is a Red Bull Dance Your Style veteran. He made his World Final debut in Johannesburg in 2022, then battled at the Pre-Finals in Frankfurt (2023) and Mumbai (2024).
This year he took the scenic route back. He entered Denmark's national final as a wildcard, won the 2026 title and booked himself a second World Final.
If he's not battling, he teaches freestyle, performs in musicals and theatre, and reps the Vikings and +45 crews. He arrives in Zurich a very different dancer from the teenager we saw in Johannesburg four years ago.
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Willis
Willis is the French footwork talent who's been waiting for this moment
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Willis is 16 years old and already a two-time Red Bull Dance Your Style France champion. He won the title last year as well, he just wasn't old enough to go to the World Final. This year he is. The French dancer's footwork brings the fire and his trophy cabinet is filling faster than most: Juste Debout 2026 in house, the Fusion Concept 2025 junior 2v2, and Cercle Underground 2025 in hip-hop 3v3. Taking Juste Debout, one of the most storied battles in street dance, at 16 is the sort of result most dancers spend a career chasing.
He reps the Badness crew, where his mentor is Candyman, a crewmate and one of this year's eight wildcards. In Zurich, the two will share the World Final stage: one invited, one arrived, both on the same floor.
Zurich marks his World Final debut, a year later than it should have been, at just 16 years old. No matter how it goes on the night, everything from here is upside.
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Ringo Winbee
Ringo Winbee is a popper with power and musicality
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Ringo Winbee, 23, has been dancing for 18 years. Do the maths and you get a dancer who's never really stopped since she was five. The Japanese popper's style is defined by two things: musicality and power. It lets her ride a groove on one beat and hit it like a truck on the next. This combination has already carried her to a world title in 2019. She won the Popping 1v1 at the UDO World Street Dance Championships in the UK.
Today she teaches popping and is a member of the Funky Bee crew, passing on a style she's spent nearly two decades refining. But her Red Bull Dance Your Style journey started where it starts for everyone: on the qualifier stage. From there came a win at Japan's 2026 National Final, then a battle through the Pre-Finals to claim her first-ever spot at the World Final.
Eighteen years of groundwork led to this moment. She'll step onto the World Final stage for the first time, seeking to show the World Final what the qualifier crowd already knows: that she's ready for the big leagues.
Watch Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final live on YouTube, TikTok and Red Bull TV. Stream starts October 24, 2025 at 9.15pm CEST (7.15pm UTC).
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