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CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – The all-female dance troupe FAB 5 won the PickYour Groove and Move dance competition Jan. 10 at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation warrior tent at Camp Buehring.
The competition was sponsored by the 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.
Spc. Angelina Sampson, human resources specialist, 101st BSB, a native of Grenada, Mississippi, and member of FAB 5, said she and her fellow dancers had fun participating in the competition and were very happy being crowned the winners.
“We chose FAB 5 because they improvised the best,” said Sgt. Maj. Roosevelt Whetstone, operations senior noncommissioned officer, 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st ABCT. “They seemed like they actually rehearsed different routines, and it showed during the competition.”
Chap. (Capt.) Aprill Bright, 101st BSB, said the event was a part of the battalion’s ready and resilient program designed to boost morale.
Bright, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, said the team who organized the event wanted to share the joy of music and dance and show service members how both art forms can cross racial and ethnic barriers.
“We invited women from Ethiopia and Cameroon who work on base to perform traditional African dances and songs during the competition,” Bright said. “The contestants demonstrated their capacity to work through the most challenging moves and to play to their individual strengths and talents.”
Teams were randomly assigned music to dance to, with songs from the 80s to the preset as possibilities.
“The competition was about the celebration of dance and music,” said Spc. Robert Johnson II, human resources specialist, HHC, 101st BSB. “It was a great way of bringing different people from different generation together.”
Johnson, a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, said some do not look at dancing as a form of physical fitness, but Soldiers have to be in good physical condition to perform many of the new dances.
About nine dance groups auditioned for the competition, with only five continuing on to
the finals.
The show opened with a tribute to different genres of music from old-school rhythm and blues and hip hop to country, Latin and ballroom dancing.
The competitors were judged on creativity and audience reaction, with the highest combined score moving on to the finals, where the audience had the opportunity to pick the winner.
“We wanted people to come out and have some good clean fun,” Bright said. “We had such a tremendous response after our last event and wanted to do one more big, morale-boosting event before we redeploy.
| Date Taken: | 02.08.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 02.08.2015 08:09 |
| Story ID: | 153935 |
| Location: | CAMP BUEHRING, KW |
| Hometown: | CHARLOTTE, NC, US |
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