After becoming
an official club more than a year ago, Utah State University’s My Bad Crew
presidents want to be taken seriously as a street style dance team.
My Bad Crew,
founded by presidents Joey Guerts and Brett George, is one of three dance teams
in USU’s Caine College of the Arts.
The club
started in an attempt to make the USU dance program stronger and provide an
alternative style of dance to the already hip-hop and lyrical teams.
“We saw that
other colleges have a lot of up and coming talent and at USU we don’t have a
very good dance program,” George said. “In order to stay competitive and
attract better dancers we needed to create our own team.”
However their
amateur status makes it difficult to gain recognition.
“We are the
new team and we don’t want to be known as the little brother anymore,” Guerts
said. “We want to show we are just as capable.”
Because the
team is more established this year Guerts and George are now focusing on
increasing the clubs notoriety. They hope to attract the attention of current
and future USU students who in most cases only recognize the Velociti and Full
Circle dance teams.
“We have
accomplished our first goal which was to start our own club,” Guerts said. “Now
the one thing we don’t have is credibility because we haven’t been around as
long as the other dance teams.”
In addition to
performing at multiple school functions, George hopes to gain recognition from
the club’s music videos.
“Every
semester we film showpiece videos and hire a professional filmographer who
posts them to YouTube,” George said. “We have gotten a few hundred hits which
is nothing too great, but it is a start.”
Both George
and Guerts admit achieving greater recognition takes time. They
hope the club will continue to develop over the years.
“Our goal is to
keep it going as long as we can,” George said. “We are keeping our eyes out for
someone we can pass the torch to.”
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