Happy New Year team! I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break and is excited to get back to dancing this semester :) Here’s our announcements for the first week of the semester:
- Recruitment help needed! We’re about to kick off our winter recruitment period with our first free lesson this Saturday after tryouts and we need your help to welcome new members to the team this semester. Our greatest asset is our wonderful current team members who welcome newbies and convey their infectious enthusiasm for dance! Winter semester recruitment mostly happens through word of mouth, so your participation is especially important 🙂
Here’s how you can help:
Step 1: Invite all your friends to our Welcome Week events and share your love of ballroom on campus! Ask our amazing recruitment chair Tiffany (tiffle@umich.edu) for flyers if you would like to help us post around campus!
Step 2: Attend our first free welcome week lesson on Sunday, dance with the newcomers and tell them why ballroom is the best club on campus!
- It’s time for tryouts, get hype!!! See the separate email I sent out for more details on what tryouts are and how to sign up. If you have never participated in tryouts before, I highly encourage it! Tryouts are a great learning experience and you can only gain from participating, as you’ll have a chance to win a spot on one of our tryout-only teams and benefit from smaller class sizes, more personal attention from our coaches, and the chance to learn way more about dancing than we can cover in newcomer lessons – who doesn’t want to learn some fun advanced moves or how to fix that infuriating step in the foxtrot? The deadline to sign up is 11:59pm on Sunday, January 9th. Note that both partners must read the doc and complete the sign-up form separately.
- More tryouts: Reminder that you must pay your $60 winter semester dues and settle any outstanding debts you owe to the team from last semester in order to try out: check your inbox for Liam’s spreadsheet to find out if you owe any money.
- Still looking for a partner? Use our partner search spreadsheet to find someone to dance with this semester!
- DTS resumes normal schedule. Unless otherwise noted on the calendar, come practice at DTS at the normal times.
- We need you to help with recruitment! Sign up to help us flyer at Winterfest next Tuesday (1/11) using this link :)
- Showcase Opportunities: We will be having showcases at our newcomer lessons on Thursday 1/13 and Thursday 1/20. Show off your awesome dance skills and help us recruit some new memebers! See Tiffany’s email for more information!
Monday 1/3
9:30-11:30 pm: Open Practice at DTS
Tuesday 1/4
9:30-11:30 pm: Open Practice at DTS
Wednesday 1/5
10:00 pm – 12:00 am: Open Practice at DTS
Thursday 1/6
9:30-11:30 pm: Open Practice at DTS
No Newcomer Lesson – Come to DTS Instead!!
Friday 1/7
Sign up for tryouts if you haven’t already :)
Saturday 1/8
Get hype for our first lesson back tomorrow…bring your friends!!
Sunday 1/9
3:00-5:00 pm: First Newcomer Lesson of the Semester in CCRB 3275!!
11:59 pm: Tryouts form due!
Welcome back and happy dancing,
Autumn <3
MBDT President