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STREET times La Salle Dance Company- Street Official Newsletter La Salle Dance Company-Street: The Champions of the Skechers Streetdance Battle VII Competitions Events Performance Requests page 1 STREET Times God’s Perfect Timing * c o m p e t i t i o n s * 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. page 2 STREET Lorenzo Cruz, a senior member and a part of the team that competed in the said contest, shares his thoughts about their performance: * c o m p e t i t i o n s 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. Times “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.” * Page 3 STREET Times By: Hazel Villaflores * c o m p e t i t i o n s * 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! Page 4 STREET Times * c o m p e t i t i o n s 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 * Page 5 BIGGER. Better. BOLDER. By: Kris Reyno * e v e n t s * 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. STREET LET’S GET A PROFILE OF THE TEAMS: Times 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. Page 6 STREET ABSOLUTE MOVEMENT Times This crew consists of students of DLSU-M and DLS-CSB. * e v e n t s * 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. Page 7 Z-AVE Precision. Technique. Heart. * e v e n t s VITAL LEGACI STREET Times 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. * 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! Page 8 ReQuest-ion, Who run the world? STREET Times By: Andrew De Guzman * e v e n t s * 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. Page 9 Sweet Girls for a Colourful Night: BMS GA * p e r f o r m a n c e r e q u e s t s STREET Times 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. * Page 10 * p e r f o r m a n c e r e q u e s t s * 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. STREET Times 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. Page 11 * p e r f o r m a n c e r e q u e s t s * Max Groove Boys The members of LSDC-Street interat the 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. STREET Times 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. Page 12 * p e r f o r m a n c e LIVE IT UP! By: Fatima Gahol STREET Times 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. r e q u e s t s * Page 13 * p e r f o r m a n c e r e q u e s t s * Showcasing on the Center Stage for Southern LaSallians By: Andrew De Guzman UPCOMING EVENTS: STREET DANZ DISH 7 Times 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. Page 14