DALAGANG FILIPINA ;-) (-: {June 24,2010}

What is it? It’s a recital and members of QCB and STEPS performing a ballet dance inspired with dalagang Filipina. Their performance is showing the types of dalagang Filipina now; the preserved one and the one that is being influenced by the Western.

How it put together? For me it was put together by the help of the choreographer, ballet dancers, inspirations and concept and the beautiful music.

How does this stimulate our senses? It stimulates my senses through their performance and how they showed their intentions in dancing .I could feel my nerve especially in part when the music goes exciting and becomes challenging where there’s lifting and running.

How does this means to me.?  The presentations means to me because first and foremost their inspirations is the dalagang Filipina and it reminds that I should study hard because it’s my dream to send my daughters in a ballet school.

STEPS over QCB!

Ever since I have known the ballet dance, plus the beautiful choreography in Barbie in the Nutcracker, THE 12 DANCING PRINCESSES  and Barbie in the Swan Lake, I really liked it a lot. It kind of means a lot to me because it is my dream to send my daughters in a ballet school, someday. Gosh! They look so nice, so slim, so elegant, and very graceful. It’s like they owned the dance floor.

It was my first time to peeped and see two presentations about ballet that was inspired to a dalagang filipina. We were assigned to compare those two presentations and choose which I like. Quite hard but I have chosen the STEPS over QCB. Well they both begin with few performers and ended with numerous ballerinas but the choreography in the STEPS fits the music especially at the challenging part where there’s lifting and turnings. What convince me more is the boys who were vey expressive when it comes to dancing? I love the music,,sobra,.. I have seen lots of events in one stage. There time that you would feel the ‘nakakapalanindig balahibo’. They amazed me.  The concentration was there. And the STEPS ended their performance dramatically. Aside from that there's a variety of dalagang filipina which is so true.

               It’s so nice that we dalagang Filipina is the inspiration of their show. The way they move, inagt na ingat sila, showing that no matter how far we are sa kabihasnan natin noon, dalagang Filipina are still preserve.

--MA. ARNIELYN N. ARPON