The University of Minnesota dance team is piling up accolades on social media for its performance, choreographed to the Aerosmith song "Dream On," at a competition in Florida this weekend.
University of Minnesota dance team goes viral with 'Dream On' routine at dance competition
The University of Minnesota team also danced to the Aerosmith song in a legendary 2004 performance.
January 14, 2024 at 11:23PM
The routine was performed in the preliminary jazz round at the ongoing Universal Dance Association College Nationals. The team placed second in its division, after Ohio State University in first, following the final round, UDA announced Sunday evening.
Several people in the audience for the performance posted their recordings to TikTok. One video taken close to the stage has over 1 million views, and others have hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands of views.
What made the performance notable, according to fans on social media, wasn't just the difficulty of the routine, which had dancers and nondancers alike trying to imitate its impressive turns.
But also because it was, dare we say, the same old song and dance (OK the routine was different), that the team danced to 20 years ago.
Here's footage of that 2004 performance:
The U team also took the Pom title for its division.
“This was certainly not an outcome that we were hoping would materialize, and we know that today’s path forward does not provide a perfect solution,” interim OCM director Charlene Briner said Wednesday.
