The Dancing Illini is proud to offer yet another incredible opportunity to
improve your dancing and showcase it to the University community! Starting
this fall, the Dancing Illini will organize a Salsa Formation Team!
The Salsa Formation Team will be led by 3 Captains: Yahna Awazu, Jennifer
Jones, and Amy Richardson, who will ensure that this will be a first class
effort all the way. The choreographer will be announced once the final
selection is made, but we are currently interviewing 3 very talented,
highly recommended professional choreographers from Chicago. The team will
be coached by David Lin, professional dance instructor and owner of the
Regent Ballroom.
We are looking for HARD WORKING, DEDICATED people who can commit to weekly
practices, and more frequent practices before performances. Our goal is to
perform in a minimum of 3-4 shows throughout the year: Fiesta del Sol, the
Dancing Illini Invitational dance competition on October 26, The Ohio State
and Notre Dame dance competitions in the Spring (transportation will be
provided), Quad day 97, etc.
Since the team can only perform as well as the members who make it up, a
major focus in our coaching sessions will be on turning each and every
member into an excellent Salsa dancer. In this regard, the Salsa Formation
Team will be run like a sports team - everyone who enrolls will start out
in the "B" group, and the 8 couple "A" group performance team will will be
decided by the coach during routinely scheduled tryouts. There will be a
participation fee to cover the costs of the professional instruction,
coaching and choreography.
Being a member of a formation team is a lot of fun and you're guaranteed to
make a bunch of close friends. If you would like to be a part of this
exciting new group, please write me at:
y-awazu@students.uiuc.edu
with your name, phone number and email address. I will be out of town
until August 29th, but I will reply shortly thereafter. In September, we
will hold the first get-acquainted meeting and hand out more information.
I hope to hear from you soon!!!!!
Yahna Awazu
DI Public Relations Chairperson