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The most stressful part of performing is the waiting.
You get anxious because you want to do it your best,
you don't want to forget the steps.
And then you get on and the music happens,
and you get lost in the moment.
That's when you have a killer performance.
People don't know where to look and they're
like, "Whoa, I'm overwhelmed!"
X-Tasee was founded in 2005 by four students,
making it the oldest competitive hip hop dance crew
at the University of Virginia.
When you join X-Tasee as a new member,
after we get to know you and see your dance styles,
we give you an X name which is your nickname in X-Tasee.
Your X name is given to you based on your dance style
or who you are as a person.
Sometimes it's a little bit of both.
Practices are super physically demanding.
Something that we say on X-Tasee
is if you're not breathing hard at the end of even a 30
second piece, you're not going hard enough.
Our goal every semester is to be better than how
we were the last semester.
It can be a lot of work, but it's the kind of work
that you want to do, that you want
to sacrifice your time for.
Joining X-Tasee as a first-year, it
made me feel really at home because from the start
it already felt like a family.
X is probably one of the most diverse CIO's on grounds,
and that's something we take pride in.
The fact that we can respect each other's differences
and still get along so well and have so much fun all the time.
That's what makes this crew pretty amazing.
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