WWU Dance Team

Going into college one piece of advice you will hear over and over is, ‘get involved on campus,’ ‘find a club to join’ or something of the like. We all heard it a million times and it seemed to lose its meaning. Then you get to college and you see posters and flyers and emails from all these groups wanting members. And even though it was getting redundant every one of us (with the exception of Aly) joined at least two clubs on campus. And we saw what everyone was raving about! Because of these clubs you can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of tasks and events you have to do for the day. However, you meet so many people, and there are so many new experiences come from your clubs; because of this even we have even given you this advice here!

My favorite club I have joined this year is Dance Team! It is a new club on campus this year and it didn’t even get started until end of September early October. I wouldn’t have known about it except for the flyers mentioned above.

We started out pretty large as people tried it out and decided if it was for them or not but in a month or two we had a team of 9 girls who loved to dance and just wanted to continue doing what they love.

Our faculty sponsor is Kylie she works in the Admissions office on campus and has become our Dance Mom here. We love her to death and she is so super proud of us as a team.

Our Captain is Jill she is a Jr here, and she is the one who started everything with her passion to get back into dancing. She is super funny but helps us become better dancers in the process. Paige is our co-Capitan and main choreographer. She is a freshman who was on her HS Dance Team and still has all of that fresh in her brain. She is sarcastic in the best possible way and loves to talk. But she knows when to get down to business to get ready to perform.

The rest of the girls are great too! There is Kala, a first year senior with the curliest red hair and biggest smile; Kassi, the vegetarian in a very serious relationship; Lorelei, the freshman from Chicago who loves to talk about everything; and Rebecca, whom we call Becs our newest member who we are trying to break the HS cheerleader out of. Then there are the three musketeers, Camille, the shortest of the bunch who can whip out some mean dances to K-pop; Emily, our in house clogger who is always prepared for anything; and me, the ballerina and most flexible of the bunch.

After we got started we spent about a month getting to know each other’s personalities and skills. Then, when we were an official campus club, we got down to business. We learned two dances and perfected the first down to a science (it looked as if we were one body) all in a matter of two and a half months. We didn’t perform before Christmas break but when we came back we were ready. Within the first month and a half on campus we performed three times, once each the two dances learned before break. The last was a whole new routine we had learned since then and performed with the cheerleaders at courtwarming.

We have now been in post-season for two weeks, it’s very laid back. One day we had Yoga class, and we mostly work on technique during practice. I love these girls so much and I am so glad I joined the Dance Team last semester.

 

Until next time, Love God, Love Each other and Love Disney

~Lacey