Jump Street Dance Club, founded in 2001, is the first comprehensive dance club founded by students from the Songjiang Campus of Shanghai International Studies University. It has now grown into a popular club with more than 200 students, with 50 or 60 core members. Recently, they

The Jump Street Dance Club was founded in 2001. It was the first comprehensive dance club founded by students from the Songjiang Campus of Shanghai International Studies University. It has now grown into a popular club with more than 200 students, with 50 or 60 core members. Recently, they appeared on the stage of the 2024 Nike College Street Dance League, using street dance to show off the style of SISU students.

Street dance is not only a sport, but also a language for expressing emotions. “As long as you dance, you will be happy.” This is the common feeling shared by generations of students from SISU’s Jump Street Dance Club.

self-created performance

Throughout the summer vacation, the main creative staff of Jump Street Dance Club have been choreographing dance moves. After the school started in September, the 14 classmates met every day. Every time they gathered, they would practice until the dance room closed at 11 pm. They also gathered at the Songjiang campus on weekends. There were even a few times when everyone was so involved that they danced until 4 a.m. and stayed in the dance room for the night. There were a lot of discussions and quarrels, but it was mostly the sweat of their youth.

With excitement and more nervousness, they came to the stage of the College Street Dance League. During the rehearsal, everyone discovered that the lighting on site did not match the original costumes. That night, everyone gathered together to readjust the competition uniforms with their own hands, stitch by stitch, and rented a dance studio to rehearse again.

, a team that has no professional teachers and has not participated in competitions for many years, added elements such as folk dance to its hip-hop dance. They released and performed to their heart's content on the stage. "My family and friends understood it well and cried. ” said the main creative staff Deji Baizhen.

Express yourself

"Dancing in hip-hop can give yourself a channel to express your emotions. If you care too much about the results, you will lose the original intention of hip-hop." Captain Wang Sijia said.

In the past, students from the hip-hop club were the main performers in various school activities, but they did not have many opportunities to compete in competitions. Last year I heard about the Nike College Street Dance League for the first time, but I didn’t have time to prepare. This year I wanted to participate. Competing on the same stage as the girls from SISU, there are more than 500 college dancers from 35 university street dance clubs in the Yangtze River Delta region. Music, dance, trends, clothing...these elements belonging to young people gather on the street dance stage and convey to the audience the current thinking of young people.

Although the Shanghai foreign team did not advance to the finals, the feedback from the audience was very good, and everyone cried after the competition.

showing strength

Talking about the harvest of the competition, Wang Sijia said: "If we look at dance skills alone, we have to learn from other school hip-hop clubs. But from the perspective of expressing meaning, From a perspective, hip-hop is not just a competitive sport. Dancers use their bodies to express emotions and use dance to talk to the world. "

This year, break dancing appeared on the stage of the Paris Olympics. An Afghan female player in the finals made people laugh. Everyone was deeply impressed. "She used dance to show the power of women, which coincides with what we do." Wang Sijia said. Many people think that hip-hop is a world dominated by male dancers, but hip-hop is creative and an expression of power. Through street dance, women can be helped to break prejudices and become the protagonists of the stage. "I think girls can show their strength when they dance hip-hop."

When dancing, they are very happy. This is a common feeling among the girls in the hip-hop club. The students come from various majors and grades, and dancing is just their hobby. “For those of us who love dancing, we can have our own stage no matter where we are. Modern people are under great pressure to study and work. If we can It’s very happy to devote yourself to something you love,” said the main creator Huang Yuchen. This kind of love is passed down from generation to generation. Every time the hip-hop club celebrates its anniversary, seniors and senior students will return to their alma mater from all over the world to express themselves through hip-hop dancing with current students. Many students in the

team competed for the last time, but the story of the Jump Street Dance Club on the stage will continue. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Tao Xingying)