#competitive dancing

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#55 Prompt

Eren and Levi are tango dancers who don't get along and they are chosen to participate in a tango competition as a duo.

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Pirate's Dance - Competitive Gymnastic Dancing number.

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Wrinkle in Time - a competitive team Contemporary Dance routine.

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Proud Momma

These are some of the pictures from Emma’s competition’s.  In the first picture it is their Lyrical dance titled “Letters to a playground bully” Emma is the dancer on the desk. They did a very touching dance on a real topic it was emotional to watch.

This is their Jazz dance “Party People” it was fun and they always looked like they were having fun.  It was sassy! It won a special award from a…

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When I walked into college with my naïve assumptions and blank slate of a beginning, the last thing on my mind was joining a dance team, and last thing I ever thought I’d do was join a competitive Bollywood fusion dance team. But when I walked into the activities fair and bumped into an older friend from high school who was on the team, suddenly my name was on the email list and I was receiving updates about auditions.

Going to that audition was simultaneously the scariest and most productive thing I’ve ever done in college. I felt for sure that I looked like an overgrown baboon the entire time.

Somehow, they decided I was good enough to be on the team, even though my mannerisms were gruff and all the other freshmen thought I hated them, and I couldn’t carry a conversation to save my life. I thought I was flailing most of the time, and I honestly assumed everyone hated me, but my captains were dedicated and patient, and they led me to blossom into a more confident woman and person.  My three and a half years on the team as both a dancer and later an executive board member have been the greatest learning experiences of my college career.

As a competitive dance team, we travel all over the country (and outside of it), dancing on stages in Michigan, Florida, Canada, and more. It means sometimes sharing one hotel room with six other people and 15-hour van rides of pure delirium. It means going from awkward conversations the first year to bonds that are so close and so tight we miss each other when we’ve been apart for longer than a day. It means 30 hours of rehearsal in 3 days the weekend before a competition. There are so many ups and downs, but these memories will last me a lifetime and more, and I would not trade them for anything. My college experience is defined by the hours I spent in the dance studio, and looking back, I don’t know if there’s anywhere else I could have spent them. I don’t believe I could have belonged as perfectly anywhere else.

I grew up watching Bollywood films and mimicking the dance moves, but never in my life did I think there would come a day where I would be doing them myself, in front of people, on a stage, smiling harder than I’ve ever done in my life. That’s the thing about dancing—most people tell me they’ve never seen me beam like that in their lives, and they’re right. Most days, I don’t truly look happy unless I’m dancing, mostly because there is no bigger joy to me than being on a stage performing.

So would I recommend being on a competitive collegiate dance team? Yes. Because it isn’t just about dancing, or competing. It’s about forming both a love for dance and a family to support you in four of the weirdest years of your life, and creating memories that will truly last forever.

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