An energy is evident at the Leaping Feats dance studio even in the reception area as dancers and choreographers wander in, laughing and talking all things dance on Wednesday afternoon.

They speak excitedly about producing pieces for the upcoming Walmart CypherFest 2014 event, one young choreographer talking about the emotion she hopes her work will elicit from the audience.

CypherFest is an annual three-day dance festival hosted by the Breakdancing Yukon Society.

Beginning today, events will continue until Saturday, including the intense performance and dance battles that have become staples of the annual festival.

This year’s festivities will feature Outside talent and debut Borealis Soul (or boSo as so many know it), a new dance company out of Breakdancing Yukon and Leaping Feats.

Ben Robinson, a boSo board member who began dancing with Leaping Feats at the age of 11, said in an interview Wednesday, boSo was created as a way for high level dancers in the territory to continue to have opportunities in the Yukon.

The work of choreographers Karly Fredrickson, Jada Powell, Alex Robinson and Valerie Herdes will be featured with a variety of dancers such as Ben performing.

While work on the show has been underway for months, over the last three weeks, that has ramped up.

Ben noted the boSo crew have been spending about six hours each night working on the show under the mentorship of some of the Outside acts that will be performing as well this weekend.

For Ben, all that dancing is in addition to his full-time job over the summer organizing, planning and co-ordinating the festival.

While he admits both dancing and co-ordinating the show “is pretty brutal,” he also said it gives him a chance to look at dance work from both the performer’s point of view and from the business point of view.

Not only is the dance work original, but so too is the music for the boSo performances with the group employing the local musical talents of Emily Ross and Selina Heyligers-Hare, who worked under the guidance of producer and MC Kelvin Smoler.

The music has been produced specifically for the session, Ben explained, noting the choreographers essentially met with Ross and Heyligers-Hare, discussed what they wanted to convey in their work with the two musical talents then going off to come up with pieces for the show.

The pieces they came back with flowed well.

“Everyone was happy with what they got,” Ben said of the music, noting the only issues that came up were some minor timing matters that were easily dealt with.

After just a few weeks to plan and rehearse, he said he believes all involved are ready to show off their work at the Yukon Arts Centre this weekend.

Crews have also been working late into the evening to perfect the lighting.

As Ben noted, while the choreographers and dancers have the show down, “it’s still a work in progress,” with plans to further expand on ideas for future performances.

boSo, he noted, will continue working on a show it plans to tour, with much of that work now set to be focused on grant applications.

“Artistically, we’re fairly ready,” he said, adding that with approximately an hour of original material it’s largely the logistics of a tour that need to be worked on.

This weekend though, the group will focus on its debut during CypherFest which, Ben pointed out, is much more than simply sitting through a dance show.

Also performing over the weekend will be visiting dance companies Gadfly, Project Soul and Breadcrumbz Crew.

Following the shows will be the Yukon Energy: Klondike Heat Battles to determine the top Bboy and Bgirl in the territory.

“Its a whole different energy,” Ben said of the battles.

The performances get underway at 6:00 each night at the Yukon Arts Centre.