The MIT team had a strong showing at Tufts 2022, held at the Joyce Cummings center on the Tufts campus.  Special kudos to the rookies – every rookie made multiple finals!

October 16, 2022
Malkin Athletic Center, Harvard

MITBDT had a great showing at the first competition of the semester.  The team showed good depth through all of the levels.  Special congratulations to Daniel Stein and Nerine Uyanik for sweeping rookie-level events, Madison Leone and Lauralyn Lin for claiming first in Silver Latin, and Hamid Doost and Lauralyn Lin for placing first in Silver Smooth and second in Gold Standard.

MITBDT rookies had a great performance as well in their debut.  MIT had 5 of 6 couples in the Foxtrot final and 5 of 7 couples in the Waltz final. In addition, MIT took the top three places in the rookie-vet competition.

Full results are below:

Rhythm

Newcomer
Swing (6 couple final, 41 registered couples)
1. Daniel Stein/Nerine Uyanik
2. Sophie Logsdon/ Clara Ontal
3. Pinar Eser/Tatiana Estrina
4. Chris Womack/Madelyn Andersen

Silver
Rumba/Swing (13 registered couples)
6. Kalon Overholt/Audrey McCarthy

Latin

Newcomer
Rumba (8 couple final, 37 registered couples)
1. Daniel Stein/Nerine Uyanik
4. Chris Womack/Madelyn Andersen
5. Joseph Lu/Margaret Wang
8. Sophie Logsdon/Clara Ontal

Silver
Cha/Rumba (14 registered couples)
1. Madison Leone/Lauralyn Lin
4. Jerry Bai/Annie Zheng
6. Henry Tran/ Ivy Zhang (Columbia)

Smooth

Newcomer
Foxtrot (6 couple final, 35 registered couples
1. Daniel Stein/Nerine Uyanik
2. Joseph Lu/Margaret Wang
4. Clara Ontal/Sophie Logsdon
5. Peter Lewnard/Shreya Gupta
6. Johannes Kalliauer/Elsa Parent

Silver
Tango/Foxtrot (14 registered couples)
1. Hamid Doost/Lauralyn Lin
6. Nick Ning/Kendra Libby

Standard

Newcomer
Waltz (7 couple final, 34 registered couples)
1. Daniel Stein/Nerine Uyanik
2. Johannes Kalliauer/Elsa Parent
3. Joseph Lu/Margaret Wang
4. Chris Womack/Madelyn Andersen
6. Clara Ontal/Sophie Logsdon

Bronze

Michael and Katerina Weimar, finalists
Silver
Waltz/Quickstep (14 registered couples)
4. Vincent Tseng (Harvard)/Doris Fu

Rookie Vet Team Match (14 teams, 3 1/4 teams from MIT)
1 MIT
2 MIT
3 MIT

What exactly is Dance Camp?

Read more about dance camp.

Schedule:

Wednesday, September 7

Where: Morss Hall, Walker Memorial (ground floor lobby of Building 50)

7:30 – 9:30pm: Foxtrot and Waltz classes, with performances by team members

9:30pm: Info session about the team

Thursday, September 8

Where: Sala de Puerto Rico (second floor of Student Center W20)

7:30 – 9:30pm: Rumba and Swing classes, with performances by team members

Saturday, September 10

Where: Lobdell (second floor of Student Center W20)

2 – 4pm: Refresher classes and training for Team Match

4 – 5pm: Team Match!

MITBDT regrets to announce that the 2020 MIT Open and our March and May socials are canceled.

MIT announced its decision to cancel many of the events happening this spring in light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak spreading to the US. This preventative measure will keep many of our community safe, but in order for us to protect those who are most susceptible, we must all make sacrifices to our usual plans.

We encourage you to dance your hearts out in practice and in other competitions happening this spring, and urge you to exercise additional precautions when attending these events.

We hope to see you next year!

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April 26-27, 2019
MIT campus, Rockwell Cage

List of team finalists

Congratulations to our rookies Jack Zhao and Lauralyn Lin, who swept Beginner Smooth and also took home an overall 1st in Beginner Standard, placing 1st in everything except Waltz, in which they got 2nd. Congratulations to Maddie Leone and Julia Bowers, a powerhouse same-sex rookie couple. These ladies took home a well-earned 1st place overall in Beginner Rhythm, placing 1st in Chacha, Rumba, and Mambo, and 2nd in Rumba and Bolero. Enjoy your shiny trophies!

Congratulations also to our smokin’ same-sex couple Boris Yelin and Aniket Gad for a fiery 4th place in Championship Rhythm, and to Giorgio Gaglia and Anna Gavrilman for placing 4th in a competitive Championship Latin event.

A kudos to all team members for a successful weekend. We worked grueling hours before, during, and after the competition and still managed to make a strong showing throughout the finals and semifinals of the competition. MITBDT is so proud to have you represent us as hosts and competitors.

March 2-3, 2019
Harvard University campus, Northwest Building

List of team finalists
What a showing in Novice Latin – MITBDT had 6 couples in the 7 couple final! Congratulations to Nino Salazar and Marina Hostrop for winning Novice Latin and getting 3rd in Prechamp Latin!

February 10, 2019
George Sherman Union, BU campus, Boston, MA

List of team finalists

Congratulations to Boris Yelin & Amanda Hutter for winning first place in both Champ and Prechamp Smooth events!

Congratulations also to Jonathan Tidor & Katie Mathison for sweeping Silver Standard and Smooth, Roman Stolyarov & Anna Soong for sweeping Silver Latin, and Alicia Xie & Alexandra Martinez Lopez for sweeping Bronze Latin! MIT had strong representation at all levels in all styles. Way to go couples!

Rookie couple Madison Leone (MIT) and Julia Bowers (Wellesley) represented MITBDT at the 2019 Holy Cross Crusader Classic. The event was held on February 9th, 2019, on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, MA.

Maddie and Julia had an amazing showing in both Bronze and Silver events! Courageous enough to try American Viennese Waltz one week in to their second semester on the team, they were recalled to the final round from a semifinal and placed 7th out of eight finalist couples! Also wanting to try Samba and International Foxtrot, both offered only at the Silver level, Maddie and Julia competed in the Silver Samba/Jive two-dance event and were recalled from semifinals into the finals! They also placed 5th out of six couples in the Silver International Tango/Foxtrot 2-dance event.

This powerhouse rookie couple continued to shine in the remaining Bronze events. From quarterfinals, Maddie and Julia placed 4th in Bronze Waltz/Quickstep and 5th in Bronze American Waltz/Tango; from an octafinal they placed 6th in American Foxtrot. They also rocked the Latin division, winning 4th place in Bronze International and American Chacha/Rumba and 7th in Swing. (Wondering why they don’t have results in Bronze Jive? Remember, it’s because they were busy making the finals in Silver Samba/Jive!)

What’s the key to their success? Well, besides amazing coaching, Maddie has practically been living in Lobby 13 and practicing at all hours of the day, and Julia has joined her for grueling practices before and after winter break. They truly are inspiration for the power of hard work. MITBDT looks forward to seeing this couple progress through the ranks, even into the Open level!

December 1-2, 2018
Columbia University Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall; New York City, NY

List of team finalists

Congratulations to our Champ Smooth finalists: Charles Hirst & Laura Aravena, and Boris Yelin & Amanda Hutter!

Kudos to rookie couple Dennis Talavera & Selina Liu who swept Newcomer Standard; yearling couple Jerry Bai & Miray Omurtak who swept Bronze Rhythm, and second-years Jesse Kirkpatrick & Electra Carzis who swept Gold Rhythm!