Dancing at Footloose. Photo | Bart van Overbeeke

Intro 2018 | Culture in Luna

Dancing to Zouk in matching Caribbean temperatures? Pretending that you are a castaway raided by zombies? Win a kazoo? Immerse yourself in Japanese culture? It is all possible in Luna, where student cultural associations presented themselves today.

It was the first time the cultural associations received a batch of potential new members in Luna - until last year the cultural clubs housed in De Bunker on the other side of the Kennedylaan.

Japan

Part of the first floor gallery, overlooking the Spar, was occupied by Kinjin - a home for Japanese culture lovers, from karaoke and board games like Go, to the Japanese language and tea ceremonies. There was karaoke in the lecture hall this Wednesday afternoon. 'You give love a bad name' by Bon Jovi, for example, which did not sound very Japanese from the mouths of future mechanical engineers. Or well, actually it did not sound good at all - with all due respect.

Role play

The Knights of the Kitchen Table, for fans of board games and role plays, did their best to recruit for their club. The unsuspecting Intro kids were therefore suddenly signed up on a virtual ship, which then immediately suffered shipwreck on a island populated by zombies. Game leader Henk of the Knights (with the recommendation of the intro mama "he is also from Japie") played his role with verve, and even got the intro kids to join his fantasy world. Then it helps that you have been around for two and a half days (and night) together. The chemistry within this group of prospective chemists was obviously good.

Tropical

In the basement of Luna, floors -1 and -2, music associations Quadrivium (classical) and Studentproof (jazz and related styles) presented themselves in a joint quiz, in which one of the students had to play a melody that he heard on his headphones, on a kazoo (a kind of whistle). The prize for the best quiz candidates: a kazoo.

At dance club Footloose, finally, the Intro kids were allowed to choose whether they wanted to try some loose moves or a real 'choreo'. Both at a temperature of about 28 degrees. According to the members of the dance club, this is the case all summer: the air conditioning is still not working. For the occasion a fan was borrowed from the fire brigade, which was placed in a corner of the dance hall. However, it is not made to run continuously and therefore has to be off regularly for half an hour to cool down, says a Footloose member. But yes, the tropical temperatures matched the sensual dances such as Salsa and the French-Caribbean music style Zouk that were offered today.

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