Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Harvard Beginners on Sunday 10/14. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

Special congratulations to Max Tenenbaum and Dominique Dang who won all of the bronze standard events, Lilymoon Whalen and Hongyi Zhou who won all of the bronse latin and rhythm events.

MIT also won the top three places in the rookie vet team match (only the top three spots were reported).

The rookies had a fantastic first comp, placing 6 of the 7 finalists in newcomer international rumba, the top 5 in swing and sweeping the finals for international waltz and American foxtrot. We also had 9 rookie couples in the semifinals for rumba and 10 for swing, waltz and foxtrot.

Harvard Beginners; 2024

Smooth

Newcomer
Foxtrot (6 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 36 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Ben Feng/Ebru Ermis
4. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
5. Yuming Shu/Guo Xu
6. Abraham Lemaitre/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Waltz/Tango (20 registered couples)
5. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Foxtrot (19 registered couples)
4. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Waltz/Tango (23 couples)
6. Henry Tran/Ava Knickerbocker (? Columbia)

Foxtrot/Viennese waltz (21 couples)
5. Henry Tran/Ava Knickerbocker (? Columbia)

Standard

Newcomer
Waltz (6 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 38 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
2. Yuming Shu/Guo Xu
3. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
4. Ben Feng/Ebru Ermis
5. Abraham Lemaitre/Sehar Lohawala
6. Kyaw Kyaw Htyn/Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep (20 couples)
1. Max Tenenbaum/Dominique Dang
3. Haoran LI/Hongyi Zhou
6. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Tango (17 couples)
1. Max Tenenbaum/Dominque Dang
2. Haoran Li/Hongyi Zhou
4. Linghe Xi/Xin Zhang
5. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep (19 couples)
5. Henry Tran/Ge Zhu (? Columbia)

Tango/Foxtrot (15 couples)
4. Henry Tran/Ge Zhu (? Columbia)

Rhythm

Newcomer
Swing (7 couple final, 11 MIT couples, 36 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Julie Steele/Emily Berkemeyer
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
4. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
5. Abraham Lemaire/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba (21 couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
6. Xin Zhang/Linghe Xi

Swing (20 couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
7. Xin Zhang/Linghe Xi

Silver
Swing/Mambo (19 couples)
5. Henry Tran/ James Stephens (? Columbia)

Latin

Newcomer
Rumba (7 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 34 registered couples, 9 MIT semifinalists)
1. Julie Steele/Emily Berkemeyer
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Zachary Pracher/Anne Xeidenbach
4. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
5. Edan Orzech/Sylvia Zhang
7. Abraham Lemaire/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba (14 registered couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
4. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon
5. Xi Zhang/Linghe Xi

Jive (12 registered couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
7. Xi Zhang/Linghe Xi

Silver
Cha cha/Rumba (24 couples)
1. Josh DeBare (WPI)/Emma Montgomery
2. Henry Tran/ Yufei Chen (? Columbia)

Samba/Jive (25 couples)
3. Henry Tran/ Yufei Chen (? Columbia)
4. Josh DeBare (WPI)/Emma Montgomery

Rookie Vet Team Match (only top 3 places announced, 7 teams, 4 1/4 teams from MIT)
1. MIT team 5
2. MIT team 7
3. MIT team 4

The 2025 MIT Open will be held on April 26 and 27, 2025, in Rockwell Cage. Learn more on our competition page. See you then!

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

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When: Saturday, 10/22/2022

Where: Sala de Puerto Rico, 2nd floor of Stratton Student Center

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Dance Camp is happening this week – no partner or experience required! Click Here to learn more.

When: Saturday, 6/11/2022

Where: Sala de Puerto Rico, 2nd floor of Stratton Student Center

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Unfortunately, given the current circumstances, we don’t plan to host an MIT Open competition in the spring of 2022. If anything changes, we will make sure to let you know! Keep training hard, and we hope to see you next year!

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Is MITBDT offering classes this semester?

Yes, we plan to offer beginner-friendly virtual classes that don’t require a partner or much floor space. If you have prior ballroom experience, then contact us (mitbdt-whip@mit.edu) for information about joining virtual classes at a higher level.

Students, get to know the team!

MITBDT would love to meet you! We can explain what ballroom is all about and explain how you can learn some moves at our virtual classes.

Undergrads: check us out at the Fall Orientation Midway on Thursday, 8/27/20, from 11am to 1pm Eastern Time. Join us at the following Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94385428736 (MIT certificates required).

Grad students: check us out at the Graduate Activities and Resource Fair event on Monday, 8/31/2020, from 12pm to 2pm Eastern Time. Join us on at the following Hopin link: https://hopin.to/events/mit-graduate-resource-fair-fall-2020

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