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Ready to dance your heart out?

The Jitterbugs is a new club on campus that allows students to express themselves through song and dance, primarily lip syncing.

Since the Jitterbugs have only started as a club this semester, they are still working out the details. However, they have a lot of plans as to what they want to do.

One of their ideas is to have themed competitions every week, where winners are chosen to battle it out at the end of the semester for a prize.

“Each night, we do a different theme. Tonight’s Disney and broadway,” said Nicolas Cabrera, treasurer of The Jitterbugs.

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According to Mara Schick, president of the Jitterbugs, the club started after a lip sync competition held at the Student Center Shebang last spring.

“We all had a good time last year and we wanted to make it a thing,” Schick said.

At the Shebang, the group including Schick, Cabrera and others preformed classic songs like “Don’t Stop Me Now”, songs from Hannah Montana and “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”. It was with the famous Wham! song that they got the name of Jitterbugs, and they decided to stick with it.

“That was just a cool title and it became our anthem,” Schick said.

When it comes to preforming, however, the best advice that Schick can give is to “wing it” and have fun. The Jitterbugs is a zero pressure zone, meaning anyone can come out to dance and sing to their favorite songs.

Freshman Grace Wright joined the club on club night because she was wanting to do something crazy, fun and different. After preforming at her first meeting, she loved the adrenaline and the ability to just dance and have fun during the middle of the week.

“It’s so fun,” Wright said. “I just wish more people would come out.”

If interested in joining the Jitterbugs, they meet every Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theatre in the Student Center.