Cha Cha Your Way into Fun and Friends at BYU-Idaho’s Ballroom Night
REXBURG -- The BYU-Idaho campus offers many extracurricular activities that help students connect with each other, learn new skills, and have fun. One of these hidden gems is Ballroom Night.
Isaac Oliphant, one of the co-managers of Ballroom night, started ballroom when he was in high school and fell in love with it.
“I’ve just stuck with it since high school,” says Oliphant, “I kept doing it here at college because it’s a great way to meet girls, and it was. My wife loves that I do ballroom dance now.”
Organizers say Ballroom Night is an opportunity to make lifelong connections with those at the event.
Apart from meeting his now wife, Oliphant expresses that he has made many friendships from attending Ballroom night that he would not have had otherwise.
“I don’t usually see these people anywhere else on campus. We don’t share any majors. We don’t share other extracurriculars or anything, so its just really great to see these people in a light that we can just socialize, just have fun,” Oliphant says.
Ballroom night is friendly to all dance skill levels, whether you’ve been doing ballroom for years or you’re just starting out. Each Ballroom Night starts with a 30-minute lesson and a different ballroom dance style is taught each week.
Ballroom dance teaches valuable skills and is a way for anyone of any skill level to have fun.
“Ballroom dance in particular teaches you how to work with different people in different situations,” says Oliphant, “You’ll be put into a position where you have to figure something out real fast. It teaches you how to work with a partner, how to lead, how to follow, how to read each other’s signals. It teaches important social skills while also giving you a chance to just let loose, have fun, and it gives you a new avenue to enjoy music.”
Ballroom Night is every Thursday Night from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm in the Hinckley gym. The dance lesson is from 8:00-8:30 pm, with the dance starting right after. Admission is $3 with an I-card.