Baker Diaries: Indakan 2010

(Photo by: Ted Cadiang)

I'm just so glad that I got to join again this year. Well not just join, but I even headed the IE Club Indakan team.

Heading IE Club's Indakan 2010 team was such a humbling, mind-wrecking, and stressful experience, but I really learned a lot from it and I had tons of fun with the people I worked with: my dancers, our manager, the prod work team, and our coaches Jim Ferrer and Xernan Alfonso.

(Photo by: Ted Cadiang)

This year's theme was movie musicals shown from the 80s to present. When we first heard about the theme, we already knew that we cannot go with hip-hop - which is our team's forte. Well, yeah, sort of. We took the challenge, stepped out of our comfort zones, and decided to do jazz dance. It was really hard at first because most of our dancers are first-timers in jazz and do not have the technique for it. But we didn't give up. All of us were really determined and eager to learn.

(Photo by: Froy Baking)

Our choreographer, Jim Ferrer, told me after our first training with him, that he was so surprised when he saw us pushing ourselves and just dancing his routine without any complains. That inspired him to create a really nice choreography for our team. Although, when school started, Jim got caught up with his academics and thesis and he started missing our practice schedules. That's where Xernan came in. He agreed to help us out even on short notice (super short!). He's such a good friend and an awesome coach. Thanks to you two!