The Office of Student Activities has been hosting UDG (Unity, Diversity, Ganbatte) Dance Workshops since this semester and there is one coming up next month.<\/p>\n
It is a workshop that lasts two hours and is open to students, faculty, and staff. It is accessible to attendees of different skill levels and teaches hip-hop dance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re really teaching it from the beginning. Slowly, slowly. I\u2019m enjoying it. I\u2019m gonna come again to the next event if they\u2019re going to do it,\u201d said Snigdha Mallick, a KCC student who attended the event.<\/p>\n
The UDG Dance Workshop was originally simply an idea played with by OSA members and then they eventually decided to start it for real. Their first was on January 21st and held over Zoom due to the pandemic with nine attendees.<\/p>\n
The second and most recent UDG Dance Workshop held on February 25th was in-person at the Maile Building. There were ten people attending it on-campus and one person over Zoom.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very grateful and we really appreciate everyone for their time coming to our workshop and supporting us, supporting OSA, and supporting KCC, for everything. We encourage everyone to get active,\u201d said Queenie Palu, one of the OSA members behind the event.<\/p>\n
The UDG Dance Workshop held on February 25th had 10 people attending and was taught by David Ko and Risa Ushikubo, two KCC students. The latter taught her original hip-hop choreography to everyone to the tune of \u201cI Need A Girl (Part 2) [feat. Loon, Ginuwine & Mario Winas]\u201d by Diddy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can make a place to, what is it, meet people and make friends because this semester, during this time, we can see people, in-person, not so much, \u201csaid Ushikubo.<\/p>\n
People also danced to other recently popular songs such as \u201cLeave the Door Open\u201d and \u201cSmoking out the Window,\u201d both by Bruno Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my first time to learn hip-hop but it was so very fun,\u201d said Reika Komai, another attendee and KCC student.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like KCC doesn’t usually do this kind of stuff, so it’s really fun to be dancing\u2026 I hope KCC does more stuff like this in the future,\u201d said Esther Tang, a KCC student and another first-time attendee.<\/p>\n