Hey everyone! just to let everyone know a few of us provided 5 mins of entertainment at the KCLSU awards, 27th May by performing a salsa piece with street dance toppings!
The main purpose of this update however, was to let everyone know that the hard work of this years president (07-08) Stefania Pavlou was recognised by KCLSU, and was awarded PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR! as well as another award, the “Gold Crown”.
Congratulations on your awards Stefi, congrats on an awesome year as dance soc president, and thankyou so much for your hard work and efforts!!
Much love from your 07 - 08 committee!!
May 28th, 2008
This years AGM was far more than just an Annual General Meeting for the selection of the next committee. We had the Unleashed DVD screening, plus special features! the Unleashed awards ceremony (congrats to the winners, and to the nominees!) free food, free drink, but most importantly the reunion of the unleashed cast! Photos available via the photos page.
The committee would like to thank EVERYONE for attending the AGM, It was such a fun night, and really good to see everyone for a good chin wag! We hope you all had lots of fun and that you all had a good break away from studying/revision!
Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Here are the results for next year’s dance soc committee!!!
PRESIDENT:
Olivier Namet
VICE PRESIDENT:
Christine Frances Baker
SECRETARY:
Lauren Bolt
TREASURER:
Ashlee Li
SOCIAL SECRETARY:
Majdi Silk
PUBLICITY OFFICER:
Nate Nicely
SALSA OFFICERS:
Daniel Chong
Ali Cooper
BALLROOM and LATIN OFFICER:
Manohar Bharwani aka.Monty
GENERAL OFFICERS:
Charlie Bayliss
Chloe Clark-Papasavas
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL!!
May 11th, 2008
On behalf of the rest of the committee I would like to thank EVERYONE who is part of Dance Soc. We have been recognised as the “Best Non-Medical Society” of the year, by GKT’s Student Medical Education Committee!!
Congratulations everyone!!
April 26th, 2008
The time has come to elect next year’s committee!!
You don’t have to be a accomplished dancer, or know how to pirouette back-flip and land on your elbow 
- as long as you enjoy dance, you’ll make it fun for others.
Below is a brief description of each committee role and what they involve, as written by this year’s committee members:
PRESIDENT
* Innovation – welcoming new members, encouraging the shy ones, and entertaining the oldies in a new and original way
* Enabling the committee to work well as a team in the overall run of things
* Some dance knowledge/background is useful, but the ability to relate to a large group of people and accommodate for everyone’s needs is more essential
* Most importantly – to be completely bonkers with an outward appearance of sanity.
(Stefania Pavlou)
VICE PRESIDENT
Organisational stuffs, generally the surplus bits of the prez’s stuffs where neccessary (so yeah make sure you go under a strong prez like stefi, makes your life ssooo much easier :p) an bits an bobs like liasing with the other socs - hard to put defined jobs, but youll do a lil bit of everything here as neccessary…
(Daryl Sinclair)
SECRETARY
The role of dance soc secretary is mostly administrative. It involves sorting out associate and normal membership, sending out and replying to emails and taking minutes at committee meetings. All committee members share the responsibility of tasks such as, collecting the money and supervising lessons. Secretary supports the president and you should have a good understanding of what is going on within the society at all times.
(Anna-karin Faircloth)
TREASURER
Hello budding treasurers to be! This job involves managing the dance soc money! That means sorting out payments for teachers, purchases, hires, socials, basically anything that involves money YOU come in! There’s also a little bit of budget planning! You get to make the call on what gets subsidised and how you think the money is best used for the society. There is a bit of paper work but you get used to it and it really isn’t so bad! Plus you get to say you financially managed the biggest and richest society at King’s! CV plus points!
(Hanson Tang)
SOCIAL SECRETARY
The role of social sec is to think up, organise, and publicise social events for Dance Soc members throughout the year. This includes bar/club nights to theatre/dance shows. You must be creative and want to get very involved in the society. You will work closely with the publicity officer and the rest of the committee. The busiest times of the year for the social sec is the times leading up to the Xmas party and the Dance Show after party, which require a lot of time and effort. Ultimately, this is a very rewarding and fun post, and will give you the chance to meet a lot of people in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
(Miran Kadr)
PUBLICITY OFFICER
As publicity officer, you will be responsible for anything to do with publicity! Essentially, this means producing publicity material such as posters, flyers or emails, and making sure they get distributed throughout the campuses, or sent to the relevant people. In addition, you will make sure the website gets updated. The things which need publicising are the dance classes, the social events, and finally, everything to do with the annual dance show. You might even want to take your own initiative and do something imaginative. This year we had a joint Salsa event with the Latin American society helping to raise the profile of their society!
(Hoong-Wai Cheah)
SALSA OFFICER
Will be responsible for:
- Organising and Supervising two hours of weekly lessons by professional salsa teachers. We employ Tropicana Salsa who we have used for the last few years. You would also be the point of contact for payment for the teachers, (in liasion with the Treasurer) as well as any upcoming events/changes/shedules within dance soc.
- take the role of promoting tropicana’s salsa club nights and lessons outside of King’s, where students get lessons half price.
This year we:
- offered beginners, improvers and intermediate levels within the two hours, as well as the popular “rueda” salsa.
- Took the beginners class each week
- Led warm ups
- Organised a dance soc social in aid of charity
- Choreographed an Advanced piece for the show
- As part of committee, helped out with numerous tasks such as: freshers fair, supervising classes, checking and responding to emails, finding sponsorships, etc etc and of course everything to do with the show!
IT’S AWESOME! and if you are passionate about salsa, its a great way to “enter the salsa world” via the teachers of tropicana.
(Daniel Chong and Claire Malcolm)
BALLROOM AND LATIN OFFICER
Ballroom and Latin Officer – A great position for those who are interested in Ballroom and Latin, as a beginner or more advanced. Your duties involve:
• Organising a teacher(s) for the lessons.
• Being at lessons to collect money and make sure everything runs smoothly.
• Come show time, helping with the auditioning processes and being a point of contact between the teachers and the students, and organising those dances for the show.
• Being part of the committee, therefore helping with other odd jobs that need to be done for the society.
(Debbie Close)
GENERAL OFFICERS (2)
-mainly dealing with ‘general stuff’ such as ordering, designing + distributing hoodies, supervising dance classes weekly, and basically helping all the other committee members with jobs that they cannot handle by themselves!
That’s it basically!
PRESIDENT : its a breeeeeeeeeeze LOL (Roxanne Annoh and Beth Davitt)
And there you have it!!
As the biggest university society in London this is a fantastic opportunity and looks bloody awesome on your CV. Not to mention all the other gazillion perks and the fun, frolics and absolute bubble you have doing it!
There’s still time to put your name down – all you have to do is:
* reply to this message to let me know you’re interested and for which role
* write little speech NO LONGER THAN TWO MINUTES which you will present at the AGM next week (either thurs or fri not sure when itl be yet) stating why you should be the role you’re going for, e.g. “I’m running for …. because I’m amazing, vote for me and you’ll get you £10 in the post” kinda thing
* then everyone votes and we announce who’s got what – finito!!
Feel free to get in touch with any of the committee members and bug them for more details about the role you’re interested in
See you at the AGM!
April 24th, 2008
