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Attending conventions is an essential part of challenge dancing, and [event] is a high-level challenge convention that is relatively affordable, since [reasons]. This year’s [event] should be an especially worthwhile convention, given that the callers are excellent and thus are expected to draw a strong floor of dancers from across the United States and abroad. Conventions such as [event] provide provide rare opportunities for high-level challenge dancers to dance to live callers calling novel, difficult material, in contrast with the recorded material that most of us practice with. [event] will also enable me to network with other dancers, which allows me to maintain and strengthen my own reputation as a challenge dancer and access invitations to future dancing events. I also hope to galvanize attendance from a large group of MIT student challenge dancers, thus helping to strengthen their networks and grow the reputation of the MIT challenge dance community.
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