Dancing January Away.

January's leaving in a couple of days and I believe it's been a great month for the UPLB Street Jazz Dance Co. The Dream Team managed to deliver performances for 5 events in a span of two weeks and our Competing Team bagged the CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY last night in BODY WARS 2012! Here are some photos and a video of stuff that happened just yesterday.

UP SAGES' PAEStigan - The 2nd Inter-Luzon PAES Quiz Contest

Dream Team in UP SAGES' PaEStigan Quiz Contest held in EE Audi.

Girls reppin' hard!

Gandingan 2012: The 6th UPLB Isko's Iska's Broadcast Choice Awards by the UP Community Broadcaster's Society.

UPLB Street Jazz Dance Co. with Wyre Underground of UPLB, UPLB Filipiniana Dance Troupe and UPLB Sandayaw.

Dream Kids. Ha ha.

Wacky Fail. LOL

GANDINGAN was FUN! We really enjoyed the company of the other groups and we really enjoyed our performance! We're happy the entire auditorium liked it! Our collaboration with the UPLB Filipiniana Dance Troupe was very well-applauded! I'll post the video here as soon as it finishes uploading in YouTube.

EDIT: Here's the video! They recorded it using my Apple iPhone 4! Watch in HD! :)

The icing on yesterday's events is definitely our Competing Team bagging the CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY in San Beda Mendiola's BODYWARS 2012! Here's a video of their winning piece. I'll update this as soon as an official video from the organizers come out because this one's audio is quite screwed up.  

It's been a long time since the group managed to grab top spot and we're definitely gonna work hard this year to improve more! This is only the beginning! Thank You, Lord for all the blessings! :)

Oh, and one more thing. It feels really good that my mum got to watch me perform again. Been a long time! Ha ha!

UPLB Street Jazz Dance Co.
Official Web Site
Facebook 
Facebook Fan Page

TFG In SMC.

Right after we watched the UPLB Filipiniana Dance Troupe's concert entitled Banyuhay: Katutubong Sayaw Sa Makabagong Pananaw, we all decided to kill some time in SM City Calamba. Main agenda is to find sunglasses/shades since summer's just around the corner.  Geoff, Yron, Rouvel, Marvin and I braved the Monday-going-home-traffic and arrived in Sm City Calamba at around 7:00PM. We immediately scoured through the racks of sunglasses in the department store and other shops in SMC. After about an hour, we finally decided to get some dinner first before we continue searching for the much-needed shades. Ha ha.

Aling Lucing's Sisig. NOTE: We don't know the guy in the violet shirt.



Sisig with Lechon Kawali (77php)



Sisig with Grilled Liempo (77php)

We went for Aling Lucing's Sisig and got their combo meals. Their sisig, I think, has greatly lost its quality since the last time the best bud and I ate there. I'm not in the mood to do a review tonight, though, since I'm just having a break from all the reviewing I'm doing tonight. One little review though, you know those Takuyaki balls that are so "popular" right now? Well, I finally got to taste one.

Takuyaki (27php)

And man, I hate it. I'm never gonna go near one ever again. Ha ha. It's just plain, err, weird. Ha ha. That's just me, though. Moving on. We went back to the department store so tat the best bud could purchase this one shades that he spotted earlier while the others fooled around. Ha ha. I then decided to treat the guys to some coffee and to Starbucks Coffee we went. We spent a good hour or so there and made fool of ourselves. 

I told you we made fools of ourselves. Ha ha. We came up with this challenge involving those photos above but I doubt we'd be doing it anytime soon. I'll update y'all if ever we push through with it. We finally called it a night at around 9:45PM and before we went our separate ways, we took one last photo depicting one of the popular games to date. Can you guess what game we are portraying?

Brraaaaaaiiiiiinnnns.

Fun night, all in all. Oh and if you're wondering what's TFG, it's actually a "name" for "our group". It means "Teethy Feed Guys". Why? Amin na lang 'yun. Ha ha! Til next time, TFG!

For the full photo set, see my TFG in SMC photo album in my Facebook page.

Banyuhay: Katutubong Sayaw Sa Makabagong Pananaw.

After like three or four years of not being able to go to their shows, I finally got to see the UPLB Filipiniana Dance Troupe in concert again. 

When I first got wind that they'd be staging a concert again, I immediately told myself to try and watch it. I became more motivated to watch when our professor in P.I 100 told us that we'd be given bonus points if we watch AND make a reaction paper for Banyuhay: Katutubong Sayaw Sa Makabagong Pananaw. 

Rouvel, Zelle, Yron, Matt, Geoff, Mary and I got balcony tickets for the 4:00PM show (March 14, 2011) and we waited a tad bit before the show actually started. Since it was staged in Baker Memorial Hall, UPLB, I thought they'd be using the stage, but upon entering the Hall, a "stage" was set up in the middle of the basketball court. It was a circular mound of sand/soil, and the audience who got the premium tickets were to sit around the "stage". Our professor gave us dibs that there'd be some audience participation in some parts, so that was something to look forward to, although admittedly, we got balcony tickets for we didn't want to participate in anything. Ha ha! 

The show started 40 minutes late but when it did, they really captured the audience, albeit especially those who were seated around the stage. They performed traditional dances from all over the country and man, they did great. Sure, there were some dancers whose forms weren't that clean but hey, I know dancing traditional dances is not a walk in the park. Like hip-hop, you have to really know its roots, its fundamentals, before you can even make a simple move. Among the dances that they performed, the one I enjoyed the most is the one wherein the two lead dancers, one female and one male, were placed atop two bamboo stalks and there they did their thing.

Pardon the photo. Used my iPod.

The parts where the "audience" get to participate were fun to watch, actually, the whole show was entertaining, and I did not, even for a second, did not get bored. That, coming from a hip-hop dancer, I think means a lot. 

The show gave me, personally, a break from all the hyped up hip-hop beats and moves that I've been exposed to. It made me realize how rich our dance community is. Not just the hip-hop dance community, but the Filipino dance community as a whole which includes these traditional dances. It also made me love dancing, hip-hop especially, more. I realized a lot of things during the show but I wouldn't wanna bore you out with those things. Ha ha.

Congratulations to the UPLB Filipiniana Dance Troupe for successful runs of the show! Til next time!

Now, on to that reaction paper.