Beks competes at Red Bull Dance Your Style Qualifier in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2023. Credit: Photo by Nat Lim / Red Bull Content Pool

Sixteen incredible dancers from around the South are pop-lock-and-dropping in to Armature Works this weekend, and you can help decide who’s the best of them.

There are 80 stops on Red Bull’s Dance Your Style qualifier circuits, where competitors play to crowds who’ll send them to the national finals happening this summer in San Francisco.

The catch is that dancers don’t know which song they’ll draw, forcing them to come up with routines on the spot. After popping up at Sparkman Wharf and Ybor City’s Cuban Club in past year’s this year’s edition finds Red Bull back in South Tampa Heights for the free, high-energy event.

Tickets for Red Bull Dance Your Style South USA happening April 19 are still available starting at $5.

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This article appears in Apr 10-16, 2025.