Congratulations Seniors!!!

AADT Seniors at the Senior Talent Show

My babies have grown and are now ready to spread AADT love to the rest of the world! Congratulations!!!

Biorhythms: Who Ever Said You Can't Dance in Med School?

At least here at the University of Michigan Med School, we are all about exercising our ability to move to the beat through our biannual dance show: Biorhythms.

At our Biorhythms show this past Saturday, we saw med students bring Britney Spears to life in a Britney Spears medley, master the "shimmy" in a Persian Dance, showcase our 90s favorites, steam up the stage with a chair dance, bring the house down with Bhangra (click here to see a video, password: biorhythms), and musical acts by the M1 Band: Saturday Night Palsy and a capella group: Auscultations had the audience bobbing their heads. I also choreographed a Tibetan piece inspired by Le Zhang's Tibetan piece from Eastbound 2006. More videos and pictures to come soon!

Thank you to Anameti and Alison for the great videos and pictures of Bhangra!

EASTBOUND 2010

Don't be left out! Get your tickets NOW!

A few alums and I will be watching the 7:30PM show and would love to see y'all there!

AADT Fire at Cultural Rhythms 2010

Skip to 1:20 if you want to get straight to the dance. Trust me, you're in for a treat. Great job dancers, you guys totally rocked Sanders yesterday!

Lady Gaga Makes Me Speechless...

I just had to share this amazing video! HT: Elsa Kim

Movin' That Jelly: First Biorhythms Dance Rehearsal

At a recent doctor's appointment, the nurse very kindly told me, "Try to make the extra effort to move around every day. Med school promotes a sedentary lifestyle."

It has not been easy to get in that daily dose of exercise. I have a 7-8 minute walk to class, which I inconsistently attend, and the cooling weather is triggering my body to reset it's eating set point to hibernation mode. My only outlet for dance has been when I decide to go out with my classmates (I must be getting old because even that's not very often). But...that all changed yesterday! That jelly that used to be my belly has finally gotten a chance to move in a productive way!

The University of Michigan med school produces a dance show every semester called Biorhythms (don't make fun of the name!). It operates in the same model as AADT. There are student choreographers, all med students are given the chance to sign up, and we are each assigned one-two dances to be in. I'll be teaching a modified version of Fan Fusion (Choreographer: YY Yang, Eastbound 2006) and I'm dancing in a hip hop dance. We had our very first hip hop rehearsal yesterday in a hallway outside a lecture hall and it was amazing!



We will be dancing to this song and the style is probably closer to music video pop. The concept is battle of high school cliques: nerds, jocks, goths, and the group of popular girls that everyone hates but secretly wishes they could be. As we learn the piece, we are supposed to pick a clique.

What clique would I best be able to pull off?

Woohoo...feels so great to dance again!

ELEMENTS X

...is definitely one of the hottest hip hop competitions on the East Coast. In fact, it's so hot, that the competition takes place at the Boston Colonial Theater and includes legit dance crews such as SoReal Cru and Fr3sh.

If you're willing to pay for the ticket, this is definitely NOT a show to miss out on!