Freestyle Dance Society: Publicity Officer

Hello! I’m Claudia and I’m running to be Publicity Officer!

I’m a fresher and entering UCL being pretty new to dancing, I have found the Freestyle Dance Society an incredibly wholesome, supportive and friendly community that I love and wish to contribute to. I’m very grateful for the weekly workshops where I can try out different dance styles, make new friends, and vibe to great music without judgement, and sincerely hope that other people can also get to know of and attend the workshops. I thus hope to expand the society’s outreach through publicity work so that more students can be part of this community, step out of their comfort zones to learn new dance styles and simply enjoy freestyle dance like I have this year.

Having held various leadership positions in my past schooling years, I have been involved in a lot of event planning for my schools and community, where I have gained publicity and design experience. I have used applications including Photoshop, Canva, and Premiere Pro to produce posters for events, school merchandise, publicity videos and social media posts. I hope to tap on this experience, and I may not be the best designer out there, but will definitely do my best in honing my skills to contribute to Freestyle Dance Society to my utmost ability. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

I first joined freestyle dance society out of curiosity. Now, I’ve come to love the energy and community of this society. In the eyes of a new member, one of the things I loved about this society was its inclusive atmosphere. I found in the society’s workshops and jams a comfortable vibe that was supportive of all skillsets, naturally fostering confidence and interest in dancing. Experimenting with various genres, improving myself, just having fun, and trying out new things without fear of judgement is a liberating, rare experience. I now want to help share this opportunity with a wide spectrum of people by being at the forefront of publicising freestyle dance society. I’d like to take my perspective of an absolute beginner who encountered fellow dancers in various stages of experience along the way to address and help current and potential members fluidly. Also, I’d especially like to see workshops publicised more. Our open level workshops are suitable to a wide range of people from total beginners to dancers of all stages. I believe emphasising this would be a great way of encouraging new people to try out our sessions. Thus I am standing up as candidate for publicity officer. I wish to use my Photoshop editing skills and growing enthusiasm for dancing by actively manning friendly and inclusive publicity channels, helping current and potential members keep track of all the exciting events freestyle dance society will create for the coming year!