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Photo courtesy synthia sumukti<\/p><\/div>\n

I<\/span>t\u2019s a rare occasion when a team goes for a three-peat \u2014 a term first popularized by the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, Pat Riley, in the late 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Ballroom Dance Club at University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa has the opportunity to do just that \u2014 continue its recent supremacy on the dance floor by waltzing and cha-cha-ing its way to a hopeful third-straight national title later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ravi Narayan and Synthia Sumukti are the coaches and founders of the dance club, which is a registered independent organization at UH M\u0101noa. They\u2019re also a married couple who are eagerly looking forward to this year\u2019s USA National Collegiate DanceSport Championships, scheduled for March 27-29 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different role we\u2019re in because now we\u2019re the hunted,\u201d says Narayan of once again being a favorite at the annual competition. \u201cBut we\u2019re also very proud of what the dancers have done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI still believe that competing at nationals is a learning experience,\u201d Sumukti adds. \u201cWe encourage our students to focus more on enjoying the process and less on the results, and to treat the national championships as a milestone in their life \u2014 not the end goal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it would be absolutely wonderful if we do win for the third year in a row.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The team burst onto the competitive dance scene at the 2024 collegiate championships, winning top honors for the highest point average. Last year, the squad claimed the same prize for highest average placement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes the chance to three-peat at an event that includes other top programs from The Ohio State University, Purdue University, University of Minnesota and University of Houston. Representing the UH M\u0101noa team will be 26 dancers competing in four major styles of ballroom dance: International Standard, International Latin, American Smooth and American Rhythm.<\/span><\/p>\n

To better prepare themselves, team members have been putting in long hours of practice on Sundays and Tuesdays. Some have even taken up their coaches\u2019 offer for additional training on Thursdays. The dancers\u2019 dedication demonstrates how serious they are about nationals, their coaches say.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we coached our team to the first national championship in 2024, we had no idea what to expect from the team or what their experience would be,\u201d Sumukti explains. \u201cAs coaches, we shared our knowledge from being competitive dancers and provided them with as much information as we could. The goal was that they would have an enjoyable experience both competing and traveling to the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut now that the University of Hawai\u2018i team has taken first place at both the 2024 and 2025 championships, we know we are no longer the underdogs and have gotten the attention of the other top teams in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs one coach of a top team admitted to us privately, \u2018Your team is an inspiration to us and has lit a fire under our team,\u2019\u201d she adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

W<\/span>hen the Ballroom Dance Club at UH M\u0101noa officially formed in August 2022, its founders were adamant about reviving interest in a dance form that had experienced a precipitous drop in participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBallroom dance is really sort of a dying art form,\u201d Narayan notes. \u201cIn the United States, most of the dancers are over 50 years of age. In fact, many are over 70. So all over the U.S., we\u2019re seeing a decline in interest. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to have several thousand dancers in Hawai\u2018i. Now at a typical event at the Ala Wai Palladium (a premier ballroom dance venue located at 404 Kapahulu Ave.), you\u2019re lucky to have 100 participants. In the past, you\u2019d have several hundred people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To make ballroom dance more attractive to the younger generation, Narayan and Sumukti chose to focus on key features they believed the dance form could offer today\u2019s youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBallroom dancing has a lot of things that college students don\u2019t have,\u201d Narayan explains. \u201cFor example, it requires you to talk to somebody \u2014 to actually get up, stand in front of someone else and communicate. We figured this would be great for this generation, who does much of their communication on their phones, to experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As with past squads, the 2026 roster is dominated by students in STEM majors such as architecture, earth science, computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Sumukti confesses to being impressed with the speed at which her students process and perform dance moves. But she also finds their passion for the physical activity to be both refreshing and inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like being surrounded by the energy and enthusiasm of the college students, and I love teaching them since they learn really fast,\u201d she says. \u201cTheir minds are clear and their bodies are able to apply what we teach them and perform it quickly. Their energy invigorates me and keeps me youthful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Because more and more young adults have been getting involved with the dance form, Sumukti sees better days ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching them has allowed me to understand how this generation differs from my generation,\u201d she adds. \u201cThe way they see the world is completely different than how we see it and this gives me a lot of hope for their future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

B<\/span>efore discovering ballroom dancing, Narayan and Sumukti had put their own interests on hold while raising their first child, a daughter named Dayinta. However, by the time daughter No. 2, Prita, arrived 13 years later, the couple was determined not to repeat the same pattern of overnurturing, intensive parenting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it was like starting all over again,\u201d Narayan explains. \u201cWe were not going to continue having a life like we already did, taking our child to soccer and ballet, for example, and then waiting there for two hours. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo my wife said, \u2018We are going to do something for ourselves.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As fate would have it, Sumukti happened to be driving past Noelani Elementary School in M\u0101noa one day when she saw that \u201csomething\u201d: a sign announcing an upcoming ballroom dance class. Almost immediately, her interest was piqued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to learn something together with my husband and liked the idea of ballroom dance as a partnership,\u201d says Sumukti, who has a master\u2019s degree in dance from the Indonesian Institute of Fine Arts, with a specialty in classical Javanese dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, there was just one problem: Narayan wasn\u2019t interested.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe kept sort of bringing it up with me, and I sort of quietly avoided it because, like most men, my concept of ballroom dancing was what I saw in movies and it just didn\u2019t seem exciting to me,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Sumukti decided the class was much too important to ignore and chose to register the couple anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, OK, I got dragged into it,\u201d recalls Narayan, laughing. \u201cSo, at that point, we started taking our 2-year-old to the class. We\u2019d tell her, \u2018This is Mommy and Daddy\u2019s time, so just like we do stuff for you at ballet, now it\u2019s your turn to sit and watch us.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s basically how our journey into ballroom dancing started.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A few years into their initial lessons, the couple began competing locally. Subsequently, they cofounded the Honolulu chapter of the USA Dance K-12 program. But then the pandemic happened and the couple decided it needed a new group of students.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter COVID hit and things started opening back up again, we realized the K-12 program wasn\u2019t really going anywhere. So we thought, \u2018Why don\u2019t we try a college program?\u2019\u201d Narayan explains. \u201cOur thinking was that we might be more successful starting a club with college students because I\u2019m an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hawai\u2018i, where I teach computer science part time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Narayan knew he would have a challenge on his hands because while the students were all sharp-minded individuals, they were also non-dancers. So he came up with a clever plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Hey, you guys take this dance class and I\u2019ll give you extra credit,\u2019\u201d recalls Narayan. \u201cThey all looked surprised because who offers dance extra credit in computer science? But surprisingly, they were like, \u2018Who\u2019s teaching the class?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Well, me and my wife.\u2019 And that got them interested, because half of them were like, \u2018This is going to be hilarious watching this guy dance!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, around 20 students and a few teacher assistants chose to take part in the initial class. Several students even chose to bring along a few of their friends. <\/span><\/p>\n

The results were positively unexpected.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t know what their motivation was \u2014 it was probably curiosity. But they showed up and we\u2019ve been dancing ever since,\u201d Narayan says.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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