30^th of March 2010

As the name suggests, Philfest is a huge annual Filipino festival in Oldsmar, Florida, an overkill of Filipino culture displayed for the public. Originally I was not going to shoot this event (due to my MCAT studies taking precedence over everything), but I was requested by an individual that I DARE NOT say no to…. and I don’t regret it.

This segment is about the younger portion of our dance troupe (the ones I sometimes question whether they do this for fun, or if they’re forced to… haha). There are the youngins of the main troupe: PPAC, the really young ones: Indak Pambata (meaning “children’s steps”), and the branch that deals with modern dance: PYC.

Despite being youths, they displayed a valor and maturity that even some adults cannot compare to. That was proven at PhilFest, being a headline in the cultural presentations, (Vinta was AWESOME by the way), showing patience and tolerance during the Flores de PhilFest parade, and lastly taking 1^st place at PhilFest Revolutions (a hip-hop competition). Congratulations on your accomplishments and know that those accomplishments are not ignored.

… again, its for the kids!

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…Flores De PhilFest

…classic!!!

…PhilFest Revolutions 2010

…can always count on running into friends here

…lounging around before the awards ceremony

…1st place… enough said

…UCF FSA

…and the party goes on

…location/venue… Boca Raton, Florida @ a Hilton Resort

An up and coming filipino organization in the South Florida (miami, ft. lauderdale, boca raton area) requested PPAC to dance in their inaugural ball, rather similar to the Sampaguita Ball I posted earlier in this blog. T’was good times, nice room, fancy environment, food, drinks, dancing, college football picks… not so good though.

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…merry early x-mas everyone…




















…rather unexpected, i met Rush Limbaugh…











…ummm okay…

First practice in a while… several new members… couple of new dances (kinda)… and free food

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Shoot Location: Bayanihan Performing Arts Center

It has been a while since this event but that was about the time I started to construct the website…

This is the first time that this unique type of “blog category” came up so ill explain about it  a bit. I dance for a group that perform a plethora of traditional filipino dances throughout the United States. Since we do travel, it’s a no brainer to bring my camera around and shoot. So it would make sense to dedicate an entire category to the Philippine Performing Arts Company of Tampa Bay, or PPAC.

Once a year, the Philippine Cultural Foundation, Inc holds a rather fancy gala in which the Filipino community comes in with the FANCIEST AND MOST FORMAL of cultural clothing and have a big party (fully catered food, fancy décor, and open bar). Well PPAC volunteered to run the event as well as perform two pieces: Jota Manilena and Habanera. Personally I did not want to go because of a specific football game I wanted to attend but the event turned out to be more fun than I originally thought it would be.

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