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

Tickets:

The 2023 MIT Open will be held on April 29 and 30, 2023, in Rockwell Cage. Learn more on our competition page. See you then!

When: Saturday, 6/11/2022

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

Tickets:

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

MIT/Wellesley community, learn about our upcoming events!

Stay up to date on team events by following our Facebook and Instagram pages! All members of the MIT and Wellesley community are welcome.

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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March 8th, 2020
WPI campus, Sports & Recreation Center; Worcester, MA

List of team finalists

MITBDT syllabus competitors danced their hearts out in what will probably be the last competition of the spring semester. Kudos to our rookies who competed in Bolero, Mambo, and Paso Doble for the first time!

Our rookies captured a few callbacks in the Silver-level events as well. Congratulations to Carine You & Christina Yin for making the finals of Silver International Chacha/Rumba and semifinals in Silver Samba/Jive from an octafinal! A shout out to Eve Fischer & Audrey Marchante for getting a callback in Silver American Viennese Waltz and Silver Samba/Jive, and to Hailey Sweeney & Beatrice Chen for callbacks in all Silver Latin events.