Hey guys your secretary of 2010/2011 here, sorry that I haven't been blogging since the beginning of the year. But I will be writing more follow up blogs to summarise the events that have taken place, but firstly, an event that certainly deserves a blog of it owns is the Street Dance Competition - BeatCity host by ourselves that took place at Embrace on the 11/12/2010. If you didn’t attend then, I’m sorry to say but, you’re a square.
On the day we had University of Sheffield, Keele University, Sunderland University, University of West England, University of Hertfordshire and of course ourselves Sheffield Hallam University all involved in the competition. The competition started off with a storm as the Beginners Competition began with a bang from Sunderland, Keele and Hallam taking part. Keele University took the title displaying clear quality in the categories that the judges were looking for.
Then came our intermission with our Bboy Dance Battle, out of all the Bboys it came to two of our own representatives from Sheffield in the final, Daniel Phung and Hung Van Nguyen which lasted 4 rounds only to have Hung aka Bboy Hero take the prize. Next we had performances from Sheffield Hallam’s Belly Dancing Society, Dames De Serpent Urban Jokers and QMX and the first Half of our Freestyle battle.
Afterwards came the Advance competition; Sunderland University were the first to perform, who displayed an innovative school theme, that made me think of Save by the bell whilst using tracks that clearly depicted their routine. Hertfordshire took the stage next with their precision and power, nothing was short of impressive. Hallam’s talent was clearly shown from our advanced them, who portrayed a casual club scene that showed all the hard work that they had put into the routine, which provided for an explosive performance. University of West England’s choreography was strongly executed and gave a different dynamic to what we had seen. But last and not least it was University of Sheffield turn to enter the spotlight, they made great use of their arsenal of dancers, including great examples of levels, acrobatics, a solo performance and good team togetherness. All the performances were fantastic but there could only be one winner and that winner was the rivals of the hosts, it was University of Sheffield who took the title this day.
The day concluded with the finale of the Freestyle battle, which a member of QMX claimed and a surprise performance from QMX themselves. To summarise the day was DOPE!!! We had supportive posts and great comment over Facebook, people actually came up to me and said £3 entry was too cheap for this kind of event and it just brings a huge smile to my face remembering that day, that all the planning, training and stress was all worth it in the end. What I personally found incredibly amazing from the day from a dance perspective is the diversity and creativity that every university brought, which was then placed under one roof and maybe just maybe we were all given a chance to hang out in a club with the possible future generation of leading dancers here in England.
Photography by Daniel Levy
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