Harvard Beginners Competition

Ballroom — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:59:58 +0000

Sorry for another late blog post about a competition. Sunday, October 17th was Harvard’s fall competition, Harvard Beginners. This competition was pretty exciting from the standpoint that we did not have to leave at 5 AM to get there in time. Unfortunately for all of us this will not happen again until next year, this is the only competition that doesn’t start at 7 AM.

Despite the competition not starting until late we all met up in the atrium of stuviII for some quality bonding/hair&makeup doing time.

Getting hair done pre-competition

And then we all migrated over to Harvard on the bus, and after some slight confusion about where were were getting off the bus we managed to get there. And from there the hair-doing continued. Sometimes I feel like dance competitions going by in a whirl of sparkles, hair, and makeup.

More hair-doing ensued once getting to Harvard.

Of course this is not true. Once all the hair and makeup was done we enjoyed some great dancing. Special congratulations to Fahmil and Kristie for coming in seventh place in the Bronze International Cha/Rumba!

Fahmil and Leo do and Intense Tango

Now we all have some time to work on our technique can routines because our next competition is not until Brown University’s competition on November 14th. So keep working hard everyone!! Make sure you keep on coming to Saturday practices and to our Winner Wednesdays/Finalist Fridays to work more individually on your routines and technique!

So! Start working hard because we’re all going to be AMAZING at Brown Competition this year and in the meantime get psyched for Montage! on the 7th.
- Bag Lady xx

Uconn’s Husky Classic Competition

Ballroom — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:26:06 +0000

So Sunday (10/10/10) was our first competition of the semester at the University of Connecticut! Everyone somehow managed to get themselves to west campus at the wee hours of the morning for the bus to leave by 5:30. Then finally, after driving around in circles just a little bit we managed to find our way to Gampel Pavilion and start the getting dressed, doing hair, being sparkly, and in Danny’s case – sleeping. Then the competition started. The standard and smooth rounds went really well and were punctuated by a fantastic rookie-veteran fun dance during which we danced a swing, polka, hustle, and samba. Harrison came in second with his fantastic sock-wearing samba and Steven snapped a picture of Mariah’s intense polka.

Mariah does the polka

Then the latin rounds started and we got to see Kristie’s sassy side come out, way to rock you two, keep it up. Everyone danced spectacularly and it was great watching you all do well!

Kristie and Famil dancing the jive.

So what started as an over-tired, way too early sort of cold day ended (still tiredly — exhaustedly), yet good. Everyone danced great and had fun which is the most important part. We had a great to kick off the competition season and I’m definitely looking forward to more competitions with you all throughout the year. Congratulations especially to those people whose first competition it was, keep up the good work!

Get psyched for Harvard Beginners competition coming up on October 17th! We’re looking forward to having more of our new couples competing for the first time together on Sunday. It’s going to be another day full of sparkles, loud music, and dancing — I hope that you’re all excited, I know I am!

Stay Sassy and Keep on Dancing!
Bag Lady

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Harvard Beginners Competition

Uconn’s Husky Classic Competition