Out of control is exactly what the atmosphere was on Friday night as BSA held their first annual “Out of Control Dance Off”.

The show kicked off at about 7:30 p.m., with six acts and 2 intermission acts. The show was delightfully entertaining and displayed a great showmanship. These groups practiced every chance they had, booked rooms in the University Center, and literally worked every bone in their body to make sure they would be ready for the competition battling for the grand prize of $350 and a second prize of $150 these groups brought their A game.

The judge’s panel was laced with members of several different organizations such as the Black Student Association, Alpha Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta, Delta Sigma Theta and the National Association of Black Journalists. Dancers were scored on overall performance, crowd appeal, appearance and routine difficulty out of a possible 40 points.

The first group, Sandoyah, added to the excitement of their show by starting drama on the college based web-community “Facebook.” Crowd favorite and dance-off veterans “FBI” consists of Justin Greer, Larry Daniels, Travis Chambers and Arthaniel Bailey. When it comes to being a crowd pleaser, this group surely knows how to please. Emerging out of the stands, they had the crowd’s participation from the time the music and spotlights came on. Full of energy and finesse, these suave guys romanced the young ladies in the audience and easily walked off with second place and $150 richer.

The two intermission acts showed their stuff as they gave the judges a break from scoring and allowed them to simply enjoy the show. The all-guy dance team from Tennessee State University ATP turned up the heat and seduced the audience with their very sexy and very mature routine. While on the opposite side of the dance spectrum the other intermission act was VIP, a majorette act.

Accompanied with drummers, the three girls were an unexpected treat. Majorettes in high school, freshmen Andrea Johnson, Angelina Pettes and Charita Tye.

“We wanted to dance in this competition as a majorette group so that we could show the UTM campus what they are missing,” says Johnson. “We hope to have a majorette dance team in the very near future.”

But the show stopper was the all girl team Not Enough. With their creative outfits, manly props and energetic sultry performance these girls were definitely working hard for the money! Shay Bond, Stephanie Moore, Christina Williams, Jasmine Owens and Phiquita Turner turned the heat up and had the crowd on their feet with applause. These five girls seemed to steal the show with what seemed to be no effort and captured the $350 prize with out difficulty.

All in all this was a great show with an extraordinary amount of talent and skill. You can check out their next event “Blue Christmas”, a play in collaboration with Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity on Dec. 1 at 7:00pm in the Watkins Auditorium.