Sunday, April 10, 2011
UDA/NDA Nationals
Today the Universal Dance Association (UDA) college national competition was televised on ESPN, and being on the cheer team, thereby associated with the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA), I got sucked into watching for awhile! There are two main associations for cheer and dance (and many smaller ones). UCA/UDA is one, and NCA/NDA is the second most popular. The National Cheer/Dance Association actually just hosted their college nationals this past week, so overall these organizations have been in the media a lot lately. (Also note they are televised on ESPN, a sports network) We talked a little bit about the elements of competitive college dance, but I encourage anyone interested to check out http://varsity.com where you can find more details and a large variety of dance videos from schools all over the country. The performances are all extremely crowd appealing, especially when it comes to costumes, music, themes, make up and choreography, all things we have talked about in class. Another fun idea is to watch a few videos, rate them yourself, and then look up their actual scores. It gets interesting to see how the judges view the dance in comparison to that of the average person. Have fun!
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I think it's really great that the dance team members were able to compete this year. As a former dancer and cheerleader, I know that competition can really be some of the most exciting times of the sport. Plus- the girls did awesome! We have a very talented dance team, I definitely suggest checking it out
ReplyDeleteI spoke to someone on the dance team and they said everything went really well! Lucky for them it takes place in Daytona Beach so they got to spend a few days relaxing. She said they hope to improve every year and eventually be able to compete with the very best teams who have been going to nationals for years now. Goes to show only practice makes perfect!
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