GUBDT


Organized entirely by students, the Georgetown University Ballroom Dance Team includes a competitive team and offers several types and levels of classes for social members as well as team members. Members are invited to local weekly social dance outings and special classes, events, and performances on campus and in the DC area.

Quotes

Competitions: 2008 - 2009

  • Jeremy [to Amanda]: I say this with love, as I love bananas, but you're like a banana.  You bruise easily.
  • Waiter: Is American okay?                                                                                                                                                Christine: For a second, I thought you were talking about dances.
    Steven: You know you're in ballroom when you mistake types of cheese for dances. 

Team Classes: 2008-2009

  • "Boys and girls have different alignments." -Dan
  • "I want to see upright male... spines." -Dan
  • "Stroke it, don't stab it." -Dan
  • "Now, public speaking is about persuasion. You're selling something. In this case, your body." -Dan
  • "If someone audio-recorded our classes, they'd think they were listening to porn." -Isa
  • "Twist your feet and head, but don't move your shoulders. Every time a shoulder moves, a fairy falls from the sky and dies." -Dan

Free Time: 2008 - 2009

  • Amanda: I knew I couldn't give up ballroom when I went home for the summer, and I missed my dance partner more than I missed my boyfriend.  Or that that it was time for the boy and me to sever relations.  One or the other.
  • Laura: Wow, people in ballroom really can't hold on to their underwear!

Practice: 2008 - 2009

  • Holly [to Jeremy during rounds the week before DCDI]: What was that- the fastest quickstep ever?
    Jeremy: No, I was just getting Amanda used to my panic mode.  You know that point at competitions where you slip into a panic mode?  I noticed that mine tends to be lots of locks and tipples.
    Jeff: Yeah, but people usually don't practice it.

Competitions: 2007 - 2008

  • Igor: I could never win; all I need now is soap and a roap.
    Hannah: But what would you need soap for?
    Igor: To hang myself.
  • Steven looking at himself in the mirrored elevator...
    Isa: "You narcissist!"
    Steven: "Huh? What does being vain have to do with enjoying pain?"
    Isa: "WHAT?!"
    Steven: "Isn't that a narcissist?"
    Isa: "I think you mean sadist...."

Practice: 2007 - 2008

  • Isa: (Reading Foxtrot routine) "Closed impetus..."
    Steven: (Walks up) "Kudos to impotence?"
  • (While dancing to that Spanish song about wanting gasoline)
    Isa: Why does he want gasoline?
    Kelly: Isa, think.
    Rae: No, don't think.
    Isa: Don't think! (continues dancing)
  • Lena: "Competing newcomer ballroom is like competing in the Special Olympics- if you win, you're still retarded."

Free time: 2007 - 2008

  • I'm sorry, but "doing it like rabbits" is intended to be entirely figurative..."
    -Rae, discussing her potential Halloween costume
  • Kelly: You should be a sexy bunny!
    Rae: That's not "sexy bunny" that's just "sex bunny."
    -After hearing the description of the costume
  • KC: There's always shrinkage. You always have to account for shrinkage.
  • Amanda: It's because you're comfy.
    Steven: I just went from being a chair to a bed. Apparently, now I'm a whole IKEA furniture set.
  • Rae: I tested all sorts of limits....boys...alcohol...yayyyyyyy!!!
  • Rae: "You just know that if Hilary were president, she would push the little red button to blow up the world."
    Gage: "That wouldn't be so bad, if she blew up the right part of the world."
    Tom: "Yeah, like Russia."
    Amanda: "That would be nice; we would have a lot less competition in ballroom."
  • Professor Hrebenak (Map): "And here's the North Pole! No Santa... but there's RUSSIANS!!"
    Rae: "Ballroom is the North Pole of Georgetown."
  • Isa: Well, now you can say that you're seeing someone, so you're unavailable
    Rae: But I'm not really seeing him!
    Kelly: You can SAY you're seeing him...
    Isa: You're seeing him at night on your bed...that's kind of like seeing him.

Team Classes: 2007 - 2008

  • Anna: This is what you are. (handing Jason a twist-tie)
    Jason: A two?
    Kelly: (Taking the twist-tie and reshaping it) No. You're a big fat zero!
    Jason: No- its like the circle of life. Does that mean I'm God?
    Anna: Only a zero would think that.
  • Edmund to Dan: Professor?
  • Dan, teaching the Latin hold: "Save room for Dan."
  • Sasha: "Harrison, I forbid you to speak about my inner thighs."
  • Dan: "Changing things up can be good, but remember that In nature, mutations die."
  • Dan, counting samba reverse turn: "One-a-BUTT, one-a-two, one-a-BUTT!"
  • "She's dancing down the line of dance checking diagonal Subway." -Dan, teaching class in Hoya Court

Team Classes: 2006 - 2007

  • Julia: Who did you sleep with in Ohio?
    Kelly: Yea Jeff, who did you sleep with?!
    Jeff: I slept with Vlad. But that's because Tom and Dean threw me out!

Parties: 2006 - 2007

  • Ameet: You lost $25? That enough for 5 meals at Hot and Crusty!
    Kelly: What's Hot and Crusty?
    Ameet: It's a deli.
    Lena: I know I wouldn't eat at a place whose name sounds like the symptoms of an STD.
  • "I don't get this whole 'Save Darfur' thing. I mean, what's Darfur anyway, a vegetable?" -- Dave M.

Social Classes: 2006 - 2007

  • KC: Come on people, no pain no gain... It's like cardio, but ballroom.
    Kelly: No, it's like cardio on valium...
  • Julia: You're a freak.
    Jeff: Thank you.

Parties: 2004 - 2005

  • I need to not drink when I'm drunk.
    -Gina
    [Yeah and you probably shouldn't dance either;)]
  • Brice, you're a whore!
    -Kinga
  • Dave, stop fiddling with yourself!
    -Kim

Social Classes: 2004 - 2005

  • Don't be a joystick, be a wall...
    -Steve, on merengue swivels
  • Forward-side-back, back-side-shit...
    -Steve, on tango reverse turn leading into a dip

Team Classes: 2004 - 2005

  • Your should just feel a hint of something going on underneath.
    -Dan
  • I need a more naked beat.
    -Dan, on foxtrot music
  • You pull her pelvis towards your pelvis.
    -Dan, on action during Samba stationary walks
  • Dan: Ameet, is that a whisk?
    Ameet: Shit.
    (while attempting a Samba routine)
  • Stop undressing me!
    -Kinga to Ily, in team class

Social Outings: 2004 - 2005

  • Ameet: I don't think that skirt is full enough for me to get between your legs.
    Charlene: But that's why I wore it...
  • I don't even know what dance this is, I just follow.
    -Kristen (while dancing in the parking lot of Promenade Ballroom)
  • Julia: ... Kinga, you are huge!
    Kinga: No, I'm the fun sized munchkin!
    Ily: No, you are the king sized munchkin!

Practice: 2004 - 4005

  • I feel like if I sniff you, I’d get high.
    -Shawn to Gina

Random: 2004 - 2005

  • Shawn: I'm going to have the coolest tombstone in the whole cemetery!
    Ily: Now that's something to look forward to.
  • You need a new computer, that one tastes horrible.
    -Mike to Laura

Competitions: 2004 - 2005

  • I don't know how to lead cha-cha so I'm just going to touch myself!
    -Kinga, during team match at DCDI
  • He looks like a man-izer...
    -Kinga, on the way to Ohio
  • Only prostitute's rooommates get sexiled more than me.
    -Chandrika, on the way to Ohio
  • If your job was phone sex, you'd be out of a job.
    -Dan to Ily, on the way back from Ohio
  • Hey... is there going to be a man rumba at this comp?
    -Dean "Danger" Hudson

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