Ottawa’s hip-hop scene just got a little more vibrant after a Carleton team placed second at the Ontario Universities Competition for HipHop (O.U.C.H.) last weekend.
The win comes at the end of a four-year journey for the Carleton University Dance Association (CUDA).
“We sat down and tried to come up with a plan about how we were going to ago about OUCH this year,” said CUDA president Edmund Gyamfi. “We thought outside of the box in terms of choreography.”
The all-girl, seven-person crew travelled to the General Motors Centre in Oshawa for the competition, which featured 12 different university teams, including Carleton, according to the competition’s Facebook page.
“The crowd was just blown away by how different the girls were,” Gyamfi said. “A lot of the dance styles that guys usually do, we wanted these girls to do. That kind of threw the audience off guard . . . they liked it.”
Last year’s champion, Durham College, took the title again, with Carleton placing second and Queen’s University third.
“They were really really close to winning,” Gyamfi said. “I feel that we go in next year, really on a mission, we’ll be able to do fine.”
