The Games of the Future Took Place in the Capital

For Kazakhstan, this format is, of course, a great rarity, as the very concept of the “Games of the Future” project is based on something not yet familiar. The country has enormous organizational experience and, naturally, the Games were held successfully. A separate highlight of the program was the introduction of dance disciplines into the competition. Our website attended the final of the Phygital Dance 2026 tournament.
Once again, it was proven that dance is truly an expression of the dancer’s inner state. After all, participation in Phygital Dance was open to people who are passionate about choreography, while there are generally not that many professionals among them. And so it turned out that the final was primarily made up of gamers who had danced offline but now competed in a digital format.
The rules are simple: the participant’s dance must be as synchronized as possible with the movements projected onto huge screens. The final assignments were made available to the participants before the competition, at different times for each participant, according to the competitors themselves. For example, a representative of our country who took one of the prize-winning places noted that she received her assignment in her personal competition account 10 days in advance.
The appeal of participating in Phygital Dance 2026 was largely driven by its unprecedented prize fund, which became one of the reasons for such a broad international geography of participants. The winner, by the way, was a representative of Argentina.
The one who felt the rhythm best, the one who managed to make their body work in harmony with the screen and become a shadow of every movement projected onto it, was the one who made it to the final. And in the final, the participants were judged not by strict jury members, but by dancing experts. There, those competitors whose performances had become both exemplary and inspiring for the audience came face to face.