For the 13th time South Ural State University has hosted a dance festival among student labour unions. Over 300 union members from 20 teams demonstrated their talents under two categories: “Street Dance” and “Pop Dance”. The SUSU Headquarters of Student Labour Unions was represented by 7 teams in the finals.
The event is traditionally held on the eve of the Russian Student Unions Day celebration. This year, the topic of the event is “Russian Student Unions BOOM: Style. Labour. Hype”. Before the event, all those willing could take memento photos and participate in interactive activities in the hall on the second floor of the main university building.
The SUSU Vice-Rector for Student Affairs Vyacheslav Burmatov offered the welcome speech to the festival participants at the festival opening ceremony.
“On behalf of the SUSU Rector Aleksandr Shestakov, I’m happy to welcome you to the traditional Russian Student Unions dance festival. Our university is inextricably linked to this event because it takes place namely on this stage in this hall every year. The SUSU administration wholeheartedly supports the Russian Student Unions movement. May your activities in this regard be creational! We wish you success!”
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One of the key guests was the head of the student construction teams segment Yuri Boldyrev.
“I feel absolutely happy to be attending this annual event! It’s a professional and very important holiday for you and me. I sincerely hope that the participants and the audience will enjoy the today’s festivity.”
It was a great pleasure for the students to dance on stage on February 16th. By their performances the participants wanted to show the audience that it is both interesting, fun and fancy to be a part of the Russian student unions. The organizers are sure that the festival will raise the dancing, cultural and artistic level of the participants, strengthen relationships among the team members from different cities, as well as popularize the student union movement among the youth.
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As representatives of the SUSU Headquarters of Student Labour Unions 7 teams had made it to the finals, and 4 of them became the festival winners:
“Street Dance” category
1st place ‒ “Vitya” student pedagogical team
2nd place ‒ “Zazhigai!” student pedagogical team
3rd place ‒ Service Team (“Avalon” student service team and “Shtil” student service team)
“Pop Dance” category
2nd place ‒ “Apelsin” student pedagogical team
The winners were awarded certificates and prizes. All the participants received certificates as well.
SUSU student Maksim Zolotov is the head of the SUSU Headquarters of Student Labour Unions. He is participating in the festival organization for the fourth time already. The student claims that year after year the number of participants grows, and the performances become more and more interesting. This makes the dance festival a dynamic and highly-anticipated one.
“I’ve really enjoyed this event! All the guys have obviously raised the level of their dance routines, and many participants teams joined their forces to expand the scale of their performances. But it’s not only the participants who grow, the organizers do as well: every year they come up with a new topic, concept and presentation. As for our team, we didn’t manage to prepare everything we’d planned. But the commissioner of the Headquarters of Student Labour Unions and one of the main organizers of the dance festival Marina Amineva managed to bring her ideas to life through the use of our capabilities. Currently we’re collecting feedback from the audience, so that we could fix all our mistakes next year.”
The event was held by South Ural State University jointly with the Chelyabinsk Regional Division of the Russian Student Teams All-Russian Public Youth Organisation and the SUSU Headquarters of Student Labour Unions.