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!

Visit our competition homepage for more competition details and announcements.

Stay up to date on the latest competition news by following our facebook page.

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.

February 1, 2020
George Sherman Union, BU campus, Boston, MA

List of team finalists

MITBDT had stellar results at this competition and several couples placed into higher divisions. Congratulations to Jad Elmourad & Jessica Bernier for winning the Gold Latin 4-dance event, which placed Jessica out of Gold into Open Latin! Congratulations to Constantin Weisser & Miray Omurtak who danced Silver Latin and placed into Gold by winning the Samba/Jive 2-dance event and taking home 4th in the Chacha/Rumba 2-dance event. Congratulations also to Maddie Leone & Julia Bowers for great results in Silver Rhythm, placing first in the Swing/Mambo 2-dance event and second in the Chacha/Rumba 2-dance event, which propelled them to Gold Rhythm. Finally, congratulations to Michael Moebius & Elizabeth Rideout for sweeping the Silver Standard events and placing into Gold Standard.

MITBDT rookies had a great performance as well in their debut at the Bronze level. Despite the fact that most dancers were out of town for IAP and had less than a week of preparation before this competition, every competitor made the final of at least one event.

December 7-8, 2019
Columbia University Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall; New York City, NY

List of team finalists

Congratulations to our yearling couple Alicia Xie & Alexandra Martinez Lopez for sweeping Bronze Rhythm. Alicia also had a strong performance with Julia Bowers in Bronze Smooth and Standard. They took home 1st place in the Standard Waltz/Quickstep 2-dance event and the American Viennese Waltz, 2nd in the American Foxtrot, and 3rd in the Smooth Waltz/Tango 2-dance event.

Kudos to our rookies who made finals in all Newcomer events, with four couples in the Newcomer Swing final! A shout-out to Jesse Kirkpatrick & Anna Soong who placed 2nd in Pre-Champ Paso Doble using a routine rather similar to what our rookies will be learning this IAP. As our coach Armin reminds us daily, it shows that a focus on movement quality and not flashy figures pays off in the end!

November 17, 2019
Salemwood School; Medford, MA

List of team finalists

Congratulations to Ryan Bisbey & Electra Carzis for winning first place in the Championship Latin event, and to Boris Yelin & Aniket Gad for taking home second place in Championship Rhythm. MITBDT also had a strong showing in Silver Latin and Rhythm, with couples amassing a total of twenty ribbons from their six events.

Six rookie couples competed this year, with especially great success in their Smooth and Standard events. Our rookies claimed the top four finalist spots in Newcomer International Waltz and four of the top five spots in Newcomer International Tango. Special congratulations to Henry Tran & Cindy Jie for representing MITBDT in the finals of all Newcomer Latin events and for earning a total of 3 first place and 5 second place ribbons throughout the competition.

MITBDT had seventeen dancers attend the 2019 DC Dancesport Inferno competition, hosted by Ballroom at Maryland at University of Maryland, College Park. The competition lasted the weekend of November 9-10, 2019.

MITBDT had a smashing performance at the Champ-level team match, placing second out of thirteen teams. We were represented by Ryan Bisbey & Electra Carzis in the Rumba, Aniket Gad & Lin Quek in the Samba, Boris Yelin & Amanda Hutter in the Foxtrot, and Corey Cleveland & Clio Flikkema in the Quickstep (pictured below; couples left to right). With our followers sporting intimidating fiery red dresses, MITBDT burned bright during this highlight of the Inferno competition.

Eleven MITBDT dancers competed in Open level events, facing tough competition. Special congratulations to Aniket & Electra, runners up in the Championship Rhythm event. Ryan & Electra represented MITBDT in Champ Latin. Charlie Hirst & Laura Aravena made it to the semifinals of Champ Smooth from a quarterfinal, and Boris & Amanda competed in both Champ and Pre-Champ Smooth events. Boris switched partners and danced with Lin in Pre-Champ Standard alongside Corey & Clio. Jonathan Tidor & Katie Mathison debuted in the Pre-Champ International Viennese Waltz event. Corey & Clio returned for Pre-Champ Latin, this time competing alongside Aniket & Lin.

MITBDT was also well represented by four couples at the syllabus level. Jonathan & Katie placed 8th in the gold Standard 4-dance from a quarterfinal. At the silver level, Hamid Doosthosseini & Sonia Zhang lasted through five rounds to the finals of the International Waltz/Quickstep two-dance, placing 7th. Similarly, Victor Quach & Yuening Zhang finaled in International Tango/Foxtrot, placing 6th. James Diao & Gloria Wu earned 6th in International Waltz/Quickstep and 5th in American Foxtrot/Viennese Waltz, also through five rounds. Our syllabus couples also competed in silver Latin against 61 other couples.

For full results, check out the o2cm website!

October 27, 2019
Rhodes on the Pawtucket; Cranston, RI

List of team finalists

MITBDT won the Christina Cryan Newcomer Team Match for the fourteenth straight year! We also boasted the runner-up team. Congratulations to our rookies, who had a very strong presence in the Newcomer finals and semifinals.

We had three dancers place out of American Smooth Waltz and Tango: congratulations to Mikhail & Tina Shalaginov for placing out at the Gold level, and to Anna Soong following James Diao for pointing out at the Silver level.