At the 2015 VibeXX Dance Competition, a dance group called Cookies gave a performance that blew the audience away. Their song started with a somewhat confusing montage of photos that showed children. Then, the captions came on and mentioned orphans, saying that “every day 5760 more children become orphans.” The audience seemed confused for a moment. Then the photo montage went away and showed the dancers on the stage. Another caption came on the overhead screen that said: “children do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”At first, all of the dancers were very still. They’re all wearing light grey clothing. They, they all start jumping around at once. As they’re walking and running around the stage, they’re behaving like typical children roughhousing and playing. Then they start dancing, and it’s magical. They run to grab military canvas blankets, and all of them jump into beds and on the floor and onto cots and cover up to their heads.
That doesn’t last as long as they start dancing again. At one point, they all huddle together and move around the stage. The best part comes at the end when it all gets quiet again, and they all go “to bed.”They won first place for this routine that was so brilliant and moving. Even better than the exceptional dance was the message. As it turns out, Cookies is a San Diego dance crew that’s made up of 32 members. Their goal was to help spread awareness about the issue of orphaned children around the globe. The dance is meant to portray children who are trapped in orphanages that are run like the military and don’t even have the basic right of being a kid.
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Here’s the best part of this entire dance. The dancers donated their winning proceeds to World Vision, a nonprofit foundation that raises money to help children in crisis. These orphans are subjected to sex trafficking, physical labor, and abuse. Many of the children are from high-poverty areas like Georgia and Ethiopia. On their Facebook page, the troupe, who started out in a garage, wrote that they “hope you guys can join us in the efforts of taking care of one another, lifting each other up, and making sure no one goes through hardship alone.”
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Watch their inspiring dance below.
