‘Black Modern’: The third success of our college pupils’ dance club

Black Modern's poster

On Sunday 5 October, Black Modern, a dance group of six pupils from the College at Asian University composing of Bo, Durian, Jay and Maratti (Grade 12, science), Ken (Grade 11, humanities) and Vor (Grade 10, science) received the Popular Vote prize at the ‘Honda Popping Dance Academy 2008’ dance competition.

The competition was organized by Mityon Pattaya Co.Ltd and A.P.Honda Co.,Ltd, to look for the best ‘Popping’ dance group in Thailand and assist teenagers making wiser choices in refusing drugs and spending their free time more enjoyably. The dancing contest was held in the car park area in front of X-Zyte night club, Central Pattaya.

Ten teams took part in the competition. Black modern was the fourth team to perform their dance. The competition was set over three time periods and Black modern performed during the second period. In accordance with the competition rules, all teams had to have three fundamental body language procedures which were; I Waving (Waving style), Heart Attack (Popping style) and Finding Freedom (Scarecrow style). In each period, three teams had to first show their dances and then they had to show those three fundamental body language procedures. After their performance, the Black Modern group was awarded the Popular Vote Prize.

The members of Black Modern were encouraged by their parents, younger members of staff including Ajarns Kanjana, Pinyo, Thanita, Patrica and Jirikanya as well as their friends. After Black Modern finished their dance, the audience gave them a big round of applause, to show their appreciation and enjoyment.