MIT Ballroom Dance Team https://ballroom.mit.edu Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:46:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 May Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/may-social-dance-6/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/may-social-dance-6/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:46:30 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3357 Who: Open to the public

Where: Sala De Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center
When: Saturday, 16/5/26

7:00PM Beginner Lessons
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/may-social-dance-6/feed/ 0 March Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/march-social-dance-6/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/march-social-dance-6/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:43:59 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3354 Who: Open to the public

Where: Morse Hall (Walker Memorial)
When: Saturday, 3/14/26

7:00PM Beginner Lessons
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/march-social-dance-6/feed/ 0 February Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/february-social-dance-5/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/february-social-dance-5/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:41:20 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3352 Who: Open to the public

Where: Sala De Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center
When: Saturday, 2/21/26

7:00PM Beginner Lessons
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2026/02/february-social-dance-5/feed/ 0 2026 MIT Open Announced https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/2026-mit-open-announced/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/2026-mit-open-announced/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:15:01 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3346 The 2026 MIT Open will be held on April 25 & 26, 2026, in Rockwell Cage. Learn more on our competition page. See you then!

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/2026-mit-open-announced/feed/ 0 December Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/december-social-dance-5/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/december-social-dance-5/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:05:48 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3344 Who: Open to the public

Where: Sala De Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center
When: Saturday, 12/13/25

7:00PM Beginner Lessons
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/december-social-dance-5/feed/ 0 November Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/november-social-dance-3/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/november-social-dance-3/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:02:26 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3342 Who: Open to the public

Where: Sala De Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center
When: Saturday, 11/1/25

7:00PM Beginner Lessons
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/november-social-dance-3/feed/ 0 October Social Dance https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/october-social-dance-4/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/october-social-dance-4/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:54:50 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3338 Who: Open to the public

Where: Sala De Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center
When: Saturday, 10/11/25

7:00PM Beginner Lessons with Swing/Jive
Beginners welcome!
No experience or partner necessary!
8:00PM General Dancing
10:30PM Last Dance

Tickets:

$5 for MIT/Wellesley students with student ID & Team Members
$10 for other university students with student ID
$15 for all others

 

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/10/october-social-dance-4/feed/ 0 Beginner Dance Camp 2025 https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/07/beginner-dance-camp-2025/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/07/beginner-dance-camp-2025/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:02:46 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3314 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)

7:30 – 9:30pm: 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)

7:30 – 9:30pm: 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 6

Where: Porter Room at Burton-Conner

2-5pm: Team Match and enjoy some pizza!

Sign up for our mailing list to receive event reminders.

]]> https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/07/beginner-dance-camp-2025/feed/ 0 Boston University 2024 https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/01/boston-university-2024/ https://ballroom.mit.edu/index.php/2025/01/boston-university-2024/#comments Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:24:06 +0000 http://ballroom.mit.edu/?p=3303 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

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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

Rhythm

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

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