Rayna Reid knows competition. Best recognized for her fierce, athletic dancing and personality-packed solos, the former comp star has recently brought her talents from Alexandria, Virginia, to the University of Minnesota Dance Team. This month, she’ll be competing in her first Universal Dance Association College National Championship. The stakes are high for Reid’s first UDA […]
Fans of college dance teams are eagerly anticipating the rematch in Division 1A between the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University at this year’s UDA Nationals. Last year, U of M took first in Division 1A Pom and OSU took second; and in Division 1A Jazz, OSU took first and U of M placed […]
The dance team life is practically defined by togetherness: on the court, in the stadium, at team-bonding events and in rehearsal after rehearsal. So how are America’s collegiate dance teams even able to #SocialDisDance through this too-long pandemic? Dance Spirit asked members of three top teams to find out. Abigail Kim, second-year member of Florida […]
They say there’s no “I” in “team”—and nowhere is that truer than the world of college dance teams, where precision reigns, uniformity is key, and a single misstep from any given “I” can cost a group a championship trophy. So it’s unsurprising that securing a spot on one of the best dance teams in the […]
This time last week, I was glued to my computer nervously watching the live stream of the 2012 NDA Collegiate Dance Team Championships in Daytona Beach, FL. It was the first time in five years that I wasn’t at the competition in person. But let me tell you—my heart was still nervously pounding as each […]
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