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La Salle Dance Company- Street Official Newsletter
La Salle Dance Company-Street: The Champions of the Skechers Streetdance
Battle VII
Competitions
Events
Performance Requests
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God’s Perfect
Timing
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By: Romeo Buenaventura
It’s the time of the year when dance competitions randomly pop
out everywhere, attracting the attention of many dance groups in the
country. Among the competitions however, one stands out as the biggest of them all: the Skechers Street Dance Battle. It has been in the
Filipino dance scene since 2004, garnering prestige largely felt by the
participants who are qualified to compete in it. The La Salle Dance
Company - Street has been participating since the famed competition’s
second leg (Skechers 2 in year 2005). Moreover, the group has been
able to get numerous awards throughout the years, aside from the said
event.
Their first shining moment was in 2008, when they won as champions, and thus making them more formidable to their peers. This year,
the contest got more exciting due to the huge improvement exhibited
by most of the competing teams have. The elimination round itself was
more intense compared to the past.
The group persevered and went through rigorous training for hours
and days, sacrificing most of their time. Other than inspiring the crowd
and making their friends and relatives proud, they had another, more
important thing in mind: to perform their best run for God. Although
the fact that they wanted to win was there, their hearts were set on
making the most out of their time onstage with each other.
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Lorenzo Cruz, a senior member and a part of the team that
competed in the said contest, shares his thoughts about their
performance:
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Having all the sweat, time, and effort,
everything was indeed worth it for them.
Winning the said competition truly justified how they worked hard for their passion, that is, dancing.
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“The team was down (or at least I think most of us were). We thought
we didn’t even have the chance to place third. We talked it over backstage after the performance and tried to accept that fact. I’m not sure
about what my teammates were thinking because somehow, I still
felt that we had a chance. Just when we almost gave up on the idea of
placing first, Sam YG called out our school’s name to go up on stage
for the championship trophy. It was a really intense experience. It
felt more bizarre during the announcing of winners compared to the
actual performance but all was well, we thank God for the wonderful
journey.”
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By: Hazel Villaflores
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After the immense victory of the Boys at the Maximum Groovity 6
Competition, comes the moment of the Street Girls to shine as they joined
The Lactacyd Confidance Mash-up Competition.
The Lactacyd Confidance Mash-up was an All-girls competition presented by Lactacyd and Studio 23. This competition’s primary rule is to
have the different schools do a routine that consist a Mash-up of Street and
any other genre of dance. The whole contest was divided into a qualification process like any other competition; they held Auditions for competing
groups, Eliminations to those who passed the auditions and of course, the
Finals.
This was the start of the competition! The girls had
to train for the routine in less than a week or two for their
Auditions! All contestants are to audition to be able to be
part of the whole competition. With this, the LSDC- girls
had their auditions at the Philippine Women’s University,
last September 10, 2011. They were all thrilled and excited along with the other schools of different highschool
and college divisions. All of the contestants were given
allotted time to block on the stage and to run their dance.
After that, the auditions were on! The LSDC-girls were
the first to set foot on the stage to give it their all. Eventually, all the contestants that passed the auditions were
announced, fortunately, the LSDC girls were able to pass
the auditions! It was a thrilling moment for them as they
then again prepare for a bigger fight for the eliminations.
After heart throbbing auditions, comes the ticket to compete
for Finals! The Eliminations for all the schools that was able to
pass the auditions! The Eliminations was held at the Dolphy
Theater at the ABS-CBN complex, Last September 24, 2011. It
was a gathering of dancers, may it be from the highschool and
college categories, all were eager to strut their stuff in the dance
floor. The LSDC girls were the 8th contestant to perform that
night; during the whole routine, although some might have gotten into a mishap, the crowd and the judges gave their cheers
and applauses to the LSDC girls, for a job well done! Then, by
the end of the night, 10 schools from the college division were
able to qualify for the finals. Including, the LSDC girls were
able to get in to the Finals! As the ranked 3rd place for the eliminations, with them were, UP Diliman’s UP Street in 2nd place
and CSB Romancion ranking 1st. truly a blessing to be able to
inspire and compete!
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Yes! Finally, the day that the hard work of the girls would eventually pay off!
Held on the 1st of October, 2011; 5pm at the SM North Edsa, Skydome was the Lactacyd Confidance Mash-up Finals! All of the contestants gathered as they prepared
for the competition. A draw lots for the all the teams were done to find out how the
competition will go. La Salle Dance Company Street was to perform fourth over all
ten schools. After all the preparations, and interviews for each of the teams, the battle was on! The competition started with a number from Stellar and her company,
and then the first 2 contestants set foot on the stage. After all the other 2 groups who
performed, Eventually, The LSDC girls performed their piece, and as the crowd grew
wild! Definitely, an inspiring moment once again! It was a long wait for the announcement but then, it came! Announcement of Winners! They announced the winners from
Top 10 down to the Champions. That night was then again a huge blessing and a
humbling experience for the Team, for the girls were able to take home the bacon, as
they were able to win the Competition as CHAMPIONS! Alongside, UP Manila Indayog Dance Varsity and UP Diliman’s UP Street winning Second and First Place, respectively. A Blessed Night for all the girls and for the Whole Team! Who run the World?
LSDC-GIRLS!! :D
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BIGGER. Better. BOLDER.
By: Kris Reyno
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IT IS DLSU’S CENTENNIAL YEAR! The La
Salle Dance Company brings you the most awaited
dance competition for the LaSallian community,
although, this time it’s bigger and better. REMIX
2011: “Animotion” was held last November 26,
2011, Saturday, 7:30PM at the Teresa Yuchengco
Auditorium of DLSU-Manila. Usually REMIX
would have eliminations and then finals but this
year they made it a much bigger event and made it
a ONE BIG NIGHT, where people got to see their
favorite crews battle each other out and the audience got a chance to get freebies. This year there
were nine finalists for REMIX: Absolute Movement, ComOne Ground, Cadence Uprockin’ Crew,
D-Tour, Psychedelic, Skittlez, Team Elite, Vital
Legaci and Z-Ave. It was quite a tough fight between all the crews since they were all so good and
they probably gave the judges quite a hard time to
choose the winner of this year’s competition.
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LET’S GET A PROFILE OF THE TEAMS:
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SKITTLEZ
This crew is definitely not
new to the competition. They
are the defending champions.
United by one passion, dancing.
Brought together by one
love, friendship.
Different flavors and styles in
one package.
Offering everything to the
One Beyond!
PSYCHEDELIC
Just established this year,
this crew is ready to get in
the battlefield and unleash
their skills and abilities.
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This crew consists of students
of DLSU-M and DLS-CSB.
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Different Personalities, Different backgrounds Different
Styles. One Goal, One Absolute
Movement.
TEAM ELITE
This crew consists of students from DLSU and DLS-CSB.
COMONE GROUND
Feel the Heat
Dance to the Beat
This is Team Elite!
One passion for dance.
A group of individuals together
as one from DLSU Manila and
College of St. Benilde
ONE Goal
ONE Dance
ONE God
ComONE Ground
CADENCE UPROCKIN’ CREW
Cadence Uprockin’ Crew is composed
of students from De La Salle University
- Manila and De La Salle – College of
St. Benilde.
As they bounce to the endless beats, as
they are no longer anonymous, Cadence
will be here, to rock your worlds.
D-TOUR
What boys can do, girls can do as well. This crew
is an all-girls crew. Get ready for a sizzlin’ hot performance by these awesome girls. They’re here to
represent all the girls out there and show everyone
what they got.
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Z-AVE
Precision.
Technique.
Heart.
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VITAL LEGACI
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Founded by students
from De La Salle Zobel,
this crew is complete
from A to Z-ave.
A dance crew made up of dedicated La Sallians of different backgrounds (ACDT, Airforce, Legit Status, you name it!). Sharing the
same passion for dance, Vital Legaci was formed last year. The group
loves what they do and are dancing up a storm all over the country.
Vital Legaci has definitely become a force to be reckoned with.
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The event wouldn’t be such a success without the organizers, the participants,
the audience and the awesome judges: JJ San Juan, Gino Ong, Lema Diaz and Jay
Torres. La Salle Dance Company – Street and Contemporary performed a wonderful collaboration choreographed by Sir Peter Alcedo Jr. Performance by the
im*pulse also pumped up everyone. Congratulations La Salle Dance Company for
a very successful event!
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ReQuest-ion,
Who run the
world?
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By: Andrew De Guzman
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Hailing from Sydney, Australia, world hip-hop champions “ReQuest” toured Manila this past November. The champs held concerts
around the city and had dance workshops for major dance companies
including schools. Every workshop they hoped to share their talents
with those similar to them for having the passion of dancing. LSDCStreet had a private dance class with them last November 17, 2011. The
choreography that was taught to them was their award-winning piece
on the song. “Who Run the World” By Beyonce.
The class was held at the dance hall of the College of St. Benilde’s
School of Design and Arts. LSDC-Street was joined by ImPulse, a dance
group that was composed of former members of LSDC-Street. In the
span of 3 hours the different members of ReQuest taught different segments of the dance.
Also, ReQuest has a tradition that in every class they would choose
the best student and give him/her a prize. With that said, the winner that
day was none other than Gino Ong. He received a picture and a shirt
with the autograph of all the members of ReQuest.
With the exposure to the world champions, LSDC-Street plans on
becoming better as a group and as individuals in order for them to bring
out the best of what it means to carry the name LSDC-Street.
During the time that LSDC-Street was learning the choreography
it was clear that there was a reason ReQuest became champions. Their
choreography was difficult to get right away, and a lot of the members
were committing mistakes. Nonetheless in the end the dance class was a
success because of the experience both parties had.
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Sweet Girls for a
Colourful Night: BMS GA
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By: Fatima Gahol
Last October 14, 2011, the Business Management Society
(BMS) had their 2nd General Assembly at the Waldo Perfecto
Seminar Room. Candy Wonderland! What an exciting theme for
them and for their guest performer, the La Salle Dance CompanyStreet (LSDC-Street). The LSDC-Street girlies looked cute with
their candy coloured kiddie costumes. Their soothing performance
made the audience feel cool and sweet. Of course it wouldn’t be
complete without some treats. There were overflowing candies,
donuts, snow cones and drinks. Indeed, eating was the best part
of the program for the girls. They felt like cute, little kids enjoying
that night.
By: Hazel Villaflores
LSDC was invited to perform Last September 23, 2011,
an event by Go Negosyo was held at the World Trade Center. It
was called; Young Entrepreneurs Summit 2011, this event was
a huge gathering of opinionated and interested entrepreneurs.
The girls performed their supposedly Lactacyd Eliminations
routine.
Coincidentally, this was a
day before the Eliminations
for the Lactacyd Confidance
Mash-up Competition. The
Girls were very happy and
fulfilled to be able to inspire
all the young entrepreneurs
that were in event.
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Sharing Cultures
By: Kris Reyno
Sure, La Salle Dance Company has two sub-groups: Contemporary
and Street, but what happens when both work together? La Salle Dance
Company presents you La Salle Dance Company – Folk. But, of course,
it is not new since it has been started long ago. La Salle Dance Company
– Folk consists of LSDC – Contemporary and LSDC – Street members
who learns and performs various folk dances of the Philippines and also
foreign folk dances. This year, 2011, LSDC – Folk had many performance
requests in years. LSDC – Folk always performs in HUMAART: Art in
Action. This time around LSDC – Folk also performed for the ASEAN
University Network at the DLSU Amphitheater and Century Park Hotel
last October 27, 2011, November 5, 2011 respectively. They performed
well known folk dances in our country such as Tinikling, Sayaw sa Bangko, Oasiwas and Maglalatik.
A brief background on the folk dances:
Tinikling is the most popular and best known Philippine folk
dance. This dance imitates the movements of the “tikling birds” as they
walk between grass stems, run over tree branches or dodge bamboo
traps set by rice farmers. Dancers imitate the bird’s legendary grace
and speed by skillfully maneuvering between large bamboo poles.
Sayaw sa Bangko is a dance which originates from Pangasinan
and is performed by a couple on a narrow bench, inching and hopping
from one end to another. Dancer show skill in staying up the bench as
they exchange places by moving their way around or the girl thrown in
the air while boy moves to the other end. It is usually performed during town fiestas.
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Maglalatik is a war dance representing a battle between the Moros
and the Christian over the latik, the remainder left after the coconut
milk has been boiled. At sometime in the course of Spanish rule, with
coconut shells as tools, the people of the barrios of Loma and Zapote
in the town of Biñan in the province of Laguna danced the Maglalatik.
Oasiwas is a dance in which an oil lamp is balanced on the dancer’s
head as he swings around lighted lamps wrapped in porous cloth or
fishnet. The name of the dance comes from the Pangasinense word for
swinging. The dance is performed by fishermen of Lingayen when celebrating a good catch. It is accompanied by waltz-like music.
It was a very fun experience learning more folk
dances, bonding with
co-dancers. Although,
the best experience was
performing these dances
the best we can to share
what culture we have to
the ASEAN community.
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acted with the different children patients
confined at the hospital. Some were merely
LSGH Sportsfest
By: Romeo Buenaventura
Last September 12, the students of the La Salle Greenhills celebrated
their annual sportsfest inside their campus. The event was jam-packed
with the inter-class competitions like the basketball, volleyball, badminton, and track and field league. This event is the counterpart of the intramurals as compared to other schools. Other than being able to play
sports all day, this event is also dedicated to help in making the student’s
spirit high as they compete amongst their friends.
The Maximum Groovity 7 champions were blessed enough to be invited to perform in the sportsfest opening with their winning routine as
one of their main events. This was a perfect way to inspire their younger
Lasallian brothers and to be able to showcase their God-given talents.
LSDC-Street and
BMS’ gift giving
collaboration
By: Andrew De Guzman
Dancing is a way of inspiring others. Not
only is LDSC-Street an organization meant for
competitions, but it is also an organization tasked
to share their blessings may those be physical, spiritual or emotional. That is exactly what
they did when they teamed up with the Business
Management Society (BMS) during a reach-out
activity at the Manila National Hospital for Children last November 16, 2011.
babies while others were young teens.
Though their time together was short, the
members were already touched by their
experience with the kids.
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As a means of giving
back to the kids, LSDCStreet performed the centennial dance of La Salle,
“Live It Up”.
Along with the children, they enjoyed a moment of true happiness and extreme joy. Because the children enjoyed the dance so much, they themselves
went to the dance floor and joined LSDC-Street during the performance.
Hence, even
though God created us looking like
different people.
Deep down inside
we are one and the
same.
We are people hoping to give others happiness through our actions and
nothing is more rewarding than seeing the smile on a person’s face.
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LIVE IT UP!
By: Fatima Gahol
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2011, the Centennial year of DLSU. A whole year of celebration.
The party-concert of the century happened in the Teresa Yuchengco
Auditorium at De La Salle University-Manila last November 17 and
November 18, 2011. This concert is for the celebration of the 100 years
of La Salle, starring The De La Salle Innersoul with the production
of Green Media Group. The La Salle Dance Company-Street (LSDCStreet), together with the La Salle Dance Company-Contemporary
(LSDC-Contemporary) was their guest. The LSDC-Street performed
their Skechers routine as front act on the first day of the concert
and intermission number on the second day. It was indeed a very
successful concert. Everyone enjoyed watching and listening to the
performers. They jammed with the singers backstage and danced
with their songs. I bet they already are very excited and can’t wait to
have their centennial concert too. Well, that’s something to wait for.
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Showcasing on the
Center Stage for
Southern LaSallians
By: Andrew De Guzman
UPCOMING EVENTS:
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As student-artists of the De La Salle University Manila, LSDCStreet has a duty to spread and represent the name of the school and of
the organization. This past November 25, 2011, LSDC-Street was invited
to perform at the annual school fair of De La Salle Zobel in Alabang.
In line with this performance request, the members sent were, Andrew Garcia, Rodge Villanueva, Igi Buenaventura, Jamon Martin, Lexi
Jimenez, Eliza Dagoy, Hazel Villaflores, Sarah Garcia, Ally Javier, Jara
Nakamura and me, as well as Aimee Yokoyama their PA. The team was
accepted with open arms by the audience, fellow performers, and the
people in charge of the event.
The other performers present were, Team Elite, LSGH AirForce,
the DLSZ pep squad, faculty, and students. Tokens of appreciation were
given to the team after their performance. Although the performers of
LSDC-Street were not part of the compet team, they left their hearts
out on the stage showing to their fellow brethren, who and what LSDCStreet is. Some may think that the performance was not great, and some
may disagree but the dancers gave it their all and tried their best to give
a spectacular show for the viewers.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRANTS:
Sept. 9 - Ken Laput
Sept. 19 - AC Suico
Sept. 27 - Hazel Villaflores
Oct. 25 - James Martin
Oct. 27 - Andro De Rivera
Nov. 17 - Trish Deluria
Nov. 18 - Andrew Garcia
Nov. 18 - Andrew De Guzman
Dec. 19 - Job Zamora
Dec. 21 - Luis Logarta
Dec. 22 - Jero Macatangay
YEAR-ROUND SPONSOR:
There are no regrets left on stage and the saying goes, “you are only
as good as your last performance”, somehow personal agendas may want
to go back and perform again however it is not possible. What they need
to do is move on and do better next time. LSDC-Street is known for
having only one team, no team A and no team B, only one. That is the
challenge given to the non-compet members, and for them the challenge
was successful.
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