STREET FUZION X: Decade, Vision, and Dance

March 12, 2010 is the day. A decade of effluent celebration of the campus-renowned group which draws its name out of the Academic world, the UP Street Dance Club. Great dance is what the club offers and with that, the club came up to a Dance Concert to the viewing folks. As I arrive at the UP Theater last Friday, I am overwhelmed by the crowd of audience to the supposed concert. Long lines for different ticket amounts, same arguments of the people outside talking about the Street Dance Club member they know and how great in dancing is he/she, and the sort. Based on the numerous people outside the theater, I started to expect a great show. As the dance concert started to show some clips, people became very enthusiastic of what they were watching. Shouts of cheers were heard, thriving around the theater. And as some of my classmates joined the cheering, I started to unravel the semiotics of the dance concert production. The stage design is not that grandiose. There were three projectors throwing slides of pictures and video clips at the screen. Two square screens at both ends and one circular screen (which projects unity and equality) behind the performers is present at the center upper stage. The stage design is simply conventional with the kind of show it has to serve. It is actually new to know that a dance group like the UP Street Dance Club is not only a group of dancers/choreographers/teachers. Their advocacy of helping a student to continue his/her studies with their scholarship program is very admirable and inspiring. Usually, what people see is superficial, that the group is a bunch of people who perform and choreograph a dance. People must recognize how these people see education and for that UP SDC is such a commendable group. The proscenium held the unified greatness and power the performers offered and at times, reached out to the audience. They had showcased dance performances which hit the expectations of the viewers. It can be called as spectacle, but a spectacle with very much spirit. The club is now ten years old. With the characteristics each member has, and with its composition as a whole, I am sure it’ll last for more years, an additional decade, a century, or so.