First launched in May 2015, the RedSquare Dance Competition focuses on expanding growth chances while motivating dance crews and individual dancers to aim for a more professional and higher level in performance. The competition is Red Square’s thumbs up response to the dance craze that has seen most young people throughout South Africa using the art form as an outlet to positively express themselves.

The competition seek to present fair opportunities, encourage talented dancers to take their gift a bit more serious and try to show that they can make something worthwhile from their gift of performance or artistic talent. Pretoria and surroundings were the first to host the Red Square Dance Competition auditions. Survivors Crew’ that had lived through the hard life of unemployment were crowned as the 2016 Red Square Dance Competition winners and pocketed R60 000 in cash.