The MSU Breakdance Club is full of ambitious hip-hop loving students looking to make friends and have fun while doing what they love.
The club has grown for the last two years and this year is no exception, club president and mechanical engineering senior Michael Doa said.
“In years’ past we would have about ten to twenty kids but it was just last year that we doubled and now we have an incredibly large group compared to past years and hopefully this year will be even better,” Doa said. “And for that to happen two years in a row now, and almost triple the size of the club from a few years ago that’s great and it’s only up from here.”
The MSU Breakdance Club is open to everyone, regardless of skill level or experience.
However, for those looking to dance on a more serious and competitive level, the team also has dancers who compete in tournaments called jams.
“We will go to Grand Rapids quite often, Ann Arbor, Detroit has a lot of battles” Doa said. “We just threw a battle in Lansing last year and it went great and we are continuing to throw it biannually.”
But beyond the dancing, the club is also an opportunity to meet new people, network and make lifelong friends.
Take mechanical engineering senior William Kang for example, who’s met a an array of people since joining the club.
“Most of the people that I’ve met are older than me,” Kang said. “People who just graduated from medical school, attending grad school for their master’s degree, and some of those people are becoming parents for the first time so just talking about those issues and having those conversations and meeting those people are some of my favorite memories.”
The club also offer uniqueness and variety.
Undecided freshman breakdancer Sungmok Park said jams are special because no two dancers are the same.
“There are definitely different styles and there’s really no way to categorize them,” Park said. “Everybody dances differently like, you can pick two different dancers and neither of them dances the same way because they’ll just dance the way they want to.”
