“Silhouettes of PoiCDO”
Photographer: Anj Koh
Taken: March 2010
Purpose: SM City - CDO Summer Exhibit
Poi Spinners: Egan, Shaunnee, Roy
Poi Spinners: Egan, Shaunnee, Roy
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Featured Photographs by Wuv San (Fire and LED poi)
“PoiCDO 2010 Members”
Photographer: Wuv San
Taken: March 2010
Purpose: SM City - CDO Summer Poi Workshop
Poi Spinners: Galutz, Shaunnee Egan, Roy, Ian, Yrucrem, Galutz, Dinan, Hexa
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
From Hip Hop to Poi (by Sherwin Parrado)
written by Sherwin Parrado (PoiCDO batch 2011)
The first time Poi and I met was when this commercial about a brand of female paraphernalia (*whispers* napkins) came out. I cant remember what brand it was but if I’m not mistaken the artist was Anne Curtis and she was spinning ribbons attached to strings. I had absolutely no idea what she was doing but at the time I thought that it was amazing, the ribbon spinning not the commercial. I really didn’t know what that activity was called so I didn’t know what to search for and with a lot of things going on then I soon archived it somewhere in my brain. Until college, when we remember all those things when the teacher is really boring.
The first time Poi and I met was when this commercial about a brand of female paraphernalia (*whispers* napkins) came out. I cant remember what brand it was but if I’m not mistaken the artist was Anne Curtis and she was spinning ribbons attached to strings. I had absolutely no idea what she was doing but at the time I thought that it was amazing, the ribbon spinning not the commercial. I really didn’t know what that activity was called so I didn’t know what to search for and with a lot of things going on then I soon archived it somewhere in my brain. Until college, when we remember all those things when the teacher is really boring.
College is the time where we supposedly know who we are as a person or rather we start to finally develop a sense of identity. A shy person like me discovered that I had a thing for dancing, hip hop to be precise. I found a group of friends who taught me the ropes. Isolations, tatting, digits, pop- locks are common words to us hip hop dancers and they are some of the things I had to learn to better myself. Dance competitions, school performances even outside school performances, I joined them all just for the thrill of being able to dance. Then my fourth year college days came , when the number of performances started to wane and the members started to scatter I asked myself, “Is this the end of my love affair with dancing?”, “Am I gonna return to that person who just watches as others perform?”.
I didn’t really have an answer to the first question but to the second my brain and heart had come up with one. No way was I gonna return to being a spectator. No way was I gonna just stand there and clap along with everybody else whilst burning with jealousy. But what can I do? I cant do choreography, making up dance moves is a gift unto itself, a gift I sadly don’t have. I can do the tricks but I’m no expert and I’m not consistent with the execution. With these obstacles I felt that the “return to by stander mode” was an inevitable outcome, until Xavier Days that is. Xavier Days where I met another group of people with something new and amazing, something that resurrected the memory of Anne Curtis and that commercial.
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