(photo):The Enweribes performing at the show
Students are playing a key role in the ongoing Maltina Dance All (MDA), a family reality show held yearly to restore family values. The current edition tagged The Evolution has four undergraduates among the finalists. They will showcase their talent at the grand finale holding in Lagos on Saturday.
The show started with 10 families — Ebutes, Ebenezers, Dosas, Briggs, Ibrahims, Clements, Asiyefias, Ekados, Enweribes and Ikumoineins. The Clement, Dosa and Asiyefia families were evicted after the first and second eviction showdowns tinged with emotion.
After the two failed attempts to make it to the MDA academy, Chukwuebuka Enweribe, a 200-Level Business Administration student of the Delta State University (DELSU), won a ticket for his family to participate in the show.
Chukwuebuka said: “Hip-Hop is my comfort zone.” His family won the judges’ confidence after spectacular performances, which ensured they remained in the academy. He said he would focus on arts and craft later in future.
Anotherstudent,Titus Ikumoineine, 400-Level Mathematics, Niger Delta University (NDU) on Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, took his family members to participate in the regional audition held in Port Harcourt, after three failed attempts to make it to the academy. Titus has not disappointed the judges and the audience with his excellent dance steps.
On his secret, Titus said: “I will survive because I will always watch and learn fast.” He described the academy as a school. “In here, one is cut off from the outside world to concentrate on key family values that matters. We are taught the importance of co-operation and solving problems within the family unit. Apart from dancing, what we have learnt will take us far as we face the challenges of life beyond the academy,” he added.
Patience Ebute, a 100-Level Accountancy student of the University of Jos (UNIJOS), joined the academy from Abuja region. Patience whose area of strength is the contemporary dance style, said: “I thought dancing is just what you do when you shake your body or make certain movements, but I have come to understand that it is far beyond that. In the MDA academy, we are taught the art of choreography, pantomime and other complex dances. I understood dancing has its intellectual side.”
Patience and her family will battle other contestants in the live grand finale of the show to hold in Eko Hotel and Suites.
Another student who is giving it his all to make the reality show lively is Nornubari Ebenezer, an OND 1 student of Rivers State Polytechnic (RIVPOLY) in Bori, Rivers State. Nornubari, who said his expectations in the academy was to make it to win the contest, said the exercise had given him the opportunity to learn new dance styles. He stressed that his presence in the academy was a wonderful opportunity for him and his family to learn the intellectual side of dancing and make new friends.
The students told newsmen the MDA Academy was a classroom where only the intelligent and smart could make an impact.
Sources: The Nation (excerpt)
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