What exactly is Dance Camp?

Read more about dance camp, an introduction to ballroom dancing for complete beginners. Open to all MIT community members (students, faculty, staff and spouses)! No partner or experience required. Sign up for our mailing list here.

Schedule:

Wednesday, September 3

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

7:00 – 9:00pm: Waltz and Foxtrot lessons, with performances by team members

9:00pm: Info session about the team

Thursday, September 4

Where: Lobby 13 (ground floor lobby of Building 13)

7:00 – 9:00pm: Rumba and Swing lessons, with performances by team members, and ice cream social after lessons at 9PM

 After Dance Camp, regular classes will begin the week of September 15.

Saturday, September 5

Where: TBA

1-4pm: Team Match and enjoy some pizza!

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Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at BU on Sunday 12/08. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

The three rookie couples who competed did very well with Hector Chaires and Cecelia Raia making 7 of the 8 newcomer finals and Miles Silva and Anne Reidenbach making the finals in all 8 of the newcomer events. Special kudos to Makenna Reilly and Eleanor Murphy who won every newcomer event and making finals in the two bronze events they competed in, placing 5th in Bronze Jive and 2nd in Bronze Waltz/Quickstep!

Smooth

Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia
7) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
8) 45 Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Bronze
Foxtrot
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Waltz/Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver

V Waltz
6) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/VWaltz
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
5) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
6) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

PreChamp
4) James Diao & Gloria Wu

Standard

Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
4) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
6) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) 140 Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) 185 Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
6) 122 Miles Silva & Xu Guo
7) 191 Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Tango
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Tango/Foxtrot
5) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
1) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan
4) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
6) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu

Syllabus VWaltz
2) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan
3) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
4) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

PreChamp
6) James Diao & Gloria Wu

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
5) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba
1) Haoran Li & Liyang Yang
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
6) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Jive
5) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
8) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
3) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
8) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan

Samba/Jive
2) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
7) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
1) Takara Truong & Cindy Jie
2) Michael Morton & Kateryna Morhun
3) Jeremy Bai & Annie Zheng

Rhythm

Newcomer

Rumba
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Swing
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Tufts on Saturday 11/23. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

Smooth

Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
3) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
4) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
8) 45 Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Foxtrot
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
3) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
4) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach

Bronze
Foxtrot
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Waltz/Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Tango
1) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Foxtrot
1) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

V Waltz
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/VWaltz
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
6) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

Standard

Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
4) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
6) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) 140 Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) 185 Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
6) 122 Miles Silva & Xu Guo
7) 191 Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Haoran Li & Heyi Li

Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
4) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma

Tango
2) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma
4) Nick Ning & Sophie Logsdon

Foxtrot
2) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma
4) Nick Ning & Sophie Logsdon

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
2) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

Syllabus VWaltz
2) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
4) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
5) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba
2) Haoran Li & Liyang Yang
7) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
1) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
2) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Samba
1) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
2) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
7) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Jive
1) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
3) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
3) Takara Truong & Cindy Jie

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
2) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
3) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy

Rumba
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) 390 Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) 144 Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang

Swing
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach

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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