All-girl dance groups from various high school and universities are all geared up to show off their passion for dance, love for creativity and fashion, and penchant for fun and friendships as they converge in the most anticipated clash of dance divas, the Crissa Dance Synergy 2010,the biggest and longest-running all-girl dance competition in the country.
The only dance competition endorsed and accredited by the Department of Education, Crissa Dance Synergy gathers the best all-female dance groups from different schools in Metro Manila to showcase the best in contemporary dance. Now on its sixth year, this year’s competition promises to be a bigger and more exciting dance battle as it includes not only high school but college students who are all ready to display their artistry, creativity, and outstanding coordination to be named this year’s best and most fashionable all-female dance team.
“For the past five years, Crissa’s teen dance competition, the Crissa Teen Synergy, has successfully become the most exciting and much-awaited dance contest for today’s teen girls, where girl groups get to express themselves through dance. It has afforded them the chance to showcase their talent, synergy and team spirit in front of a wide audience. This year, there had been a clamor from college dance teams to join the competition, so we’re giving them a chance to shine and show what they’ve got by including them in this season. We’ve changed the name of the contest to ‘Crissa Dance Synergy’ to aptly reflect the bigness of this year’s dance competition,” said Chris Go, Crissa brand manager.
Besides having a bigger competition, Year 6 of Crissa Dance Synergy gets even more exciting with this year’s theme inspired by the chick flick, Sex and the City. It’s going to be a city invasion of girly chic as the contestants don their fun personalities, confident attitudes and fashionable styles as they display their infectious moves on the stage.
“Crissa Dance Synergy is not only about battling it out on the stage, but more importantly, an event where the girls can really have fun, be confident and make new friends with other girls from other schools,” added Go.
Exciting prizes are up for grabs this year. Grand champions for the high school and college category each get P100,000 cash prize while 1st runners-up each receive P75,000 cash. Second runner-up winner for the high school category gets P50,000 cash.
The competition is open to all high school and college female students. Each team must consist of 8 to 10 members and each member must be bona fide students enrolled for the school year 2010-2011. Joining teams must present the duly accomplished entry form complete with the group or team members’ photos and names. For application forms, contestants should contact Melissa Lee of Excite at 0912-4888888.
There is no limit to the dance styles or routine that the groups want to showcase. Groups are free to mix up their music – which can be a combination of modern jazz, hip-hop, street dancing, modern ballet, etc. – provided that routine of each team should last for 2 ½ to 3 minutes only.
Self-expression through fashion also defines the Crissa Dance Synergy competition, thus teams are given the freedom to mix up their fashion styles which should reflect Crissa’s “fashionably fun” concept. Team members may accessorize and jazz up their own Crissa outfits to express their unique styles and fashion statements. The group with the most stylish costume will win the Fashionably Fun Award and will go home with a special prize from Crissa.
Teams will be judged according to the following criteria: Visual Effectiveness 10%; Costuming Effectiveness 10%; Variety Movements 20%; Synchronization 20%; Creativity/Originality 20%; and Showmanship/Crowd Appeal 20%.
Elimination rounds will happen on November 6 at the SM North Edsa Sky Dome; November 12 at the SM Megamall Activity Center; and November 20 at the Market! Market! ActivityCenter. The grand finals are slated on December 11 at the SM Mall of Asia Activity Center with fun and exciting activities in store for the crowd and a surprise guest who will definitely make all the girls swoon.
The Crissa Dance Synergy 2010 is presented by Juicy, The Body Shop, WL Foods, Biogenic, Reva Footwear, Fres Beauty Soap and Sisters Sanitary Napkin. For more information, check out Crissa Jeans on Facebook.
Organizer, participants and media personalities who attended the Sports Writing Congress.
PRAYER TIME
Josiah Israel Albelda
Resource speakers pose for a photograph during the ITH Campus Sports Writing Congress held recently in Chowking Cubao.
Scribes to strut stuff on hardwood in ITH 2010
The sportswriters will be the ones written about.
The Pakitang Gilas Basketball Team, led by sports scribes from different media organizations, will slug it out with host JCSGO FaculTech in the live coverage event of the Adventurer In the Huddle: 1st National Campus Sports Writing Congress on Nov. 10 at the JCSGO Seed Dome in Cubao.
In one of the highlights of the country's biggest campus sportswriting event, ITH speakers Jonas Terrado and Francis Ochoa will lead the Pakitang Gilas squad that will collide with the Black Hawks, bannered by teachers and technical staff from the host school.
"This is going to be exciting," organizing committee head Josiah Israel Albelda. "It's an opportunity for our aspiring sportswriters to write about their 'idols.'"
Tipoff is scheduled at 10:30am right after the session of noted sportscaster Noel Zarate.
After the coverage, ITH participants will be brought to nearby Araneta Coliseum to watch the PBA twinbill featuring Alaska, Air 21, B-Meg Derby Ace and Powerade. The PBA is a partner of the congress.
Opening-day salvo
Veteran columnist and scribe Bong Pedralvez will open the fireworks on Monday with his lecture on the fundamentals of sports writing while Ochoa, Terrado, Patricia Bermudez-Hizon and TJ Manotoc will help the students learn a lot about sports coverage.
Likewise, PBA commissioner Chito Salud will deliver a short talk before the around 500 students and school paper advisers expected to flock in the groundbreaking activity.
Sports Digest's Tina Maralit and Jenner Ong close the first day with lectures on sports feature writing and photojournalism, respectively. ###
MILO CHAMP CAMP CONTINUES ITS NATIONWIDE SCHOOL TOUR
MILO continues to reach out to more children across the country with the Milo Champ Camp School Tour, a year-long interactive sports program aimed at developing positive values among its participants.Instead of setting up camp at a certain venues like other sports clinics, Milo brings the clinics to the schools guaranteeing better participation and coverage. Champ Camp teaches grade pupils the fundamentals of three of the most popular sports in the country—basketball, soccer and softball—while providing a setting that not only promotes their physical development but also instills positive character traits such as camaraderie, sportsmanship, patience, perseverance, and teamwork. These are values that build champions in sports and in life.The students are divided into three groups and are supervised by some of the country’s pool of selected coaches and trainers. The groups are later rotated, moving them to the training areas of the other sports.
“The Milo Champ Camp aims to encourage school children to get into sports and help them learn the character forming values that come with it.” said Yvette C. Papasin, Milo marketing promotions and events executive, in Tuesday’s Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum at Shakey’s on UN Avenue in Manila. “We want them to use sports as an inspiration to have an active and healthy lifestyle as they mature.” she added. She also noted that Champ Camp has inspired numerous students with no previous training to pursue high-level athletics. “After experiencing Champ Camp in their school, these kids decided to have serious and proper training in the sport of their choice.” added Papasin.
Besides getting more children involved in sports, Milo has also set a program to help the parents develop a deeper understanding of sports and nutrition in kids. Milo holds sessions on nutrition focusing on the daily nutritional needs of children.
The Milo Champ Camp has so far completed 65 percent of its scheduled 700 stops—158
private and 542 public schools—this year, touring not only the Metro Manila and neighboring provinces but reaching as far as Southern Mindanao.
By December, the program will have reached about half a million children across the country.
Milo Champ Camp ushers in its final quarter with a media conference at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the PoncianoBernardoElementary School in Quezon City, with MILO Champion Athlete and national basketball team skipper Chris Tiu as guest.
