Overflowing with excitement, the Danforth University Center echoed with cheers as student dance groups took turns showcasing their talent and teamwork, each vying to captivate the audience’s hearts and claim the spotlight as their own. On Friday, April 5, WUSauce, WashU’s performance salsa dance team, hosted their annual Dance Off at the DUC. The experience […]

Despite the closure of campus, many of Wash. U.’s student dance groups are attempting to keep in contact and keep dancing.

Friday night’s Dance-Off: A Night at the Oscars was truly spectacular. For two hours, Washington University dance groups of all different styles—and an a cappella group, the Aristocats—performed in Tisch Commons, competing to be named “Wash. U.’s best.”

Founded in 2004, WUSauce aims to introduce the Wash. U. community to the beauty of Latin dance when they aren’t competing in competitions.

For those frequently in the Danforth University Center, it’s hard to imagine Tisch Commons as anything but the site of loud, stressed, Tuesday-tea-drinking students. But thanks to Washington University’s Urban & Hip-Hop Union (WUHHU), it was turned into a lively, ’90s-themed dance floor.

Washington University’s Asian American Association (AAA) will showcase student talent at its annual Open Mic Night on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 2-4 p.m. in Ursa’s.

Comprised of 14 dancers, ranging from freshmen to seniors, performing a high-energy combination of Latin movements, from sharp turns to hip swings, WUSauce is Washington University’s preeminent salsa dancing club. The group was formed eight years ago, and since then, it has grown in popularity and developed into a diverse collection of students across ages, majors and cultural backgrounds.

Student Union Treasury rejected an appeal to send students to Poland for a climate change conference due to concerns about funding academic work. The Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) appealed for $5,000 to defray the cost of traveling to Warsaw for a United Nations Climate Change conference next spring.

Eight hundred and twenty-nine students danced away the twelve hours between 2 p.m. and 2 a.m. last Saturday to Sunday.
They were raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network through Dance Marathon, an event that Washington University has hosted twelve times since 2000.