2020/21 EXEC
Favourite Swing Dance: Gonna have to be lindy hop! It's the one I've been learning the longest, and the one that got me hooked on swing dancing
Favourite DUSS Memory: Helping out at Summer Swing 2019 as a new exec member. It was my first ever dance festival, a bit hectic, but an amazing atmosphere, and being able to help run the event as well as attend it was a bonus! That was when I really started to feel like I was a part of the wider swing dancing community.
3rd Year - English Literature -
St Cuth's
charmayne poutney-board
president
Favourite Swing Dance: Lindy Hop
Favourite DUSS Memory: Falling flat on my face in a dance battle with Ex-President Garance! Fun times
2nd Year - Japanese Studies - Van Mildert
teaching coordinator
Favourite Swing Dance: Charleston
Favourite DUSS Memory: Pancake Day! A DUSS tradition is that every year on pancake day we go to the President’s house for pancakes. I love having a good chat and socialising with everyone, a lovely chance to talk to other dancers.
2nd Year - Geography - Castle
JESS HARKER
social secretary
Favourite Swing Dance: Lindy Hop
Favourite DUSS Memory: Probably the weekend away, that’s where I got to know so many great people. Otherwise probably our invasion of Jorvik as it was my first experience of a weekender.
2nd Year - Maths - St Chad's
oscar rummery
treasurer
Favourite Swing Dance: 1930s Charleston
Favourite DUSS Memory: When I first joined DUSS I was terrified of social dancing. So my favourite memory at DUSS is the feeling at the Library Stomp when I first danced with every single lead present that night. And that happened to be my last social before social distancing became a thing!
2nd Year - Natural Sciences - Van Mildert
secretary
Favourite Swing Dance: Blues
Favourite DUSS Memory: Library Stomp Socials and Christmas Carnage (a jazz concert where DUSS members were invited to dance at)
3rd Year - Theoretical Physics - Castle
kiki dekkers
social sec
Favourite Swing Dance: Charleston
Favourite DUSS Memory: We were nearing the end of a workshop at the shag festival and everyone was exhausted and slightly delirious. When it came to 'high five and rotate' my partner went for the double high five, missed my hand and smacked me in the face. It was hilarious and we had a good laugh about it.
2nd year // English // St Cuth's
MIRIAM THOMPSON
welfare &
intersectionality officer
Favourite Swing Dance: Lindy Hop (especially with made-up silly moves thrown in the mix)
Favourite DUSS Memory: York's Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Hop, my first swing festival. I befriended some dancers from Sheffield and went back with them when the festival ended, betraying DUSS and coming back with a tattoo! Ask me about it- I love to show it off!
2nd Year - Liberal Arts - St Aidan's