The 33rd Parad Nadij will be held in Kyiv and will support the defenders of the sky of Ukraine

The oldest ballroom dance tournament in Ukraine will be held as part of the Kyiv charity tour of dance festivals in support of Ukrainian defenders "Everything will be Ukraine!"

On March 25, the 33rd sports dance tournament "Parad Nadij-2023" will be held in Kyiv. The organizer of the tournament, Valentina Fedorchuk (founder of the Fedorchuk Sport Dance School, Honored Sports Dance Coach of Ukraine, judge of the highest category of the World Dance Council) founded this competition 33 years ago. And in 2023, Valentina Fedorchuk defined the goal of Parade-2023 as helping the defenders of independent of Ukraine and preserving the national dance sport.

The war changed the format of the traditional  Parad Nadij competitions, strengthened security measures: the organizers shortened the competition from the traditional two days to one, rented a room can be used as the simplest shelter.

Five separate parades are organized so that athletes of all categories have time to show their skills to domestic and foreign judges. Two dozen judges have been invited to the referee's team, among them Jonathan Wilkins from the USA, Marek Kosaty from Poland, Ukrainian judges with the highest judging category - Dmitry Vlokh, Vitaly Hryhorovich, Marina Andrusenko, Mashin Igor and others.

The tournament program is planned so that in the first half of the competition day (1-3 divisions) children (athletes up to 8 years old), juveniles (8-12 years old) and juniors (up to 16 years old) will take to the dance floor. In the second part of the competition day, judges and spectators will evaluate the skills of the athletes in the Adult and Pro-Am categories (a pair of a coach and his student). The highlight of the tournament will be the performance of