Hey guys!
So as you may know college life is super hectic and busy. So we are still waiting to hear back from the coaches of the University of Miami Sunsations. While waiting for an answer, I decided to look for some inspiration and ideas for our documentary in the future. My group and I came across this mini documentary on Youtube from the University of Michigan. They did more of like documentary about their experience at UDA nationals in Orlando.
UDA, short for Universal dance association, was "founded in 1980 as Universal Dance Camps. It was started as a need for educational training for what were then called 'drill teams.' UDA actually started calling them “dance teams” to better promote the activity." UDA is like professional competitive dance for college teams. Theres a multitude of categories to compete in. To be specific, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, pom, etc. There are different divisions, it goes from division 1 to 4. All college teams will be RANKED in each division and each team will receive an award for their placement. It's a big deal for college students and it is a whole new world for normal competitive dancers like myself.
The Michigan dance team showed their experience at UDA and it was quite inspiring. Obviously we are in the middle of a pandemic, so competition season for dancers looks a bit different. But, we do think it can be a cool twist to kind of just talk about the training, performing at games during covid, and how unique it is that all of the dancers come from different places in the world and still make one team. These are just some ideas, but we definitely want to do something in the range of college dance.
Talk to you guys soon!
Watch the mini documentary here:
Michigan Dance Team Nationals: Mini Documentary
More about UDA:https://www.varsity.com/uda/school/competitions/
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