Ultimate Dance Revolution: ChEDC Defends Crown Once Again

by Darwin Eugenio (December 26, 2014)

The Chemical Engineering Dance Crew retained the championship status of the department during the Engineering Student Council’s General Assembly titled “Neon Generation ‘Let Your Color Define You’” held on October 19, 2014 at Circuit Makati. Similar to previous competitions, the Ultimate Dance Revolution competition was fought among dance crews representing a particular department in the Faculty of Engineering and the newly-established Institute of Information and Computing Sciences.

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The fifteen-member Chemical Engineering Dance crew wowed the audience with their dance performance consisting of hiphop, ballet, contemporary dance and isolation elements mixed together. In terms of ranking, the Chemical Engineering Dance Crew was preceded by the Information Technology, Civil Engineering, and Electronics and Communications Engineering dance crews, respectively. According to Crystel Quijano, captain of the Chemical Engineering Dance crew, fifteen out of nineteen members of the dance crew were able to participate in the competition.

Rochelle Louise Sampaga, the Co-Captain of the Chemical Engineering Dance Crew, jubilantly described how challenging yet fun it was to work on retaining the championship. “Actually kasi, noong practice namin nahihirapan kami sa routine namin. Siyempre, lahat naman ninanais yung titulo. Tsaka [bilang isa sa mga lider], napepressure ako, kasi defending kami. Siyempre nag-eexpect din ang mga tao lalo na yung [Chemical Engineering Department]. Kaya ginawa namin lahat nang makakaya namin at marami kaming naisakripisyo. Nang bandang huli pagkatapos namin sumayaw, naisip ko masaya ako [para sa lahat] kahit [hindi pa sinasabi kung sino ang nanalo]. Kasi yun naman talaga dahilan kung bakit kami sumali. Gusto namin sumayaw, para ipakita sa lahat yung talento na binigay ni Lord samin. Para rin makapag-inspire kami [at] hindi para makapagyabang. Sa kahulihulian, masaya kami at napagbigyan kami dahil na rin sa mga dasal at pagpursigi ng bawat isa.” she said.

The Chemical Engineering Dance Crew was the champion during the Ultimate Dance Revolution 1 (A.Y 2011 – 2012) and Ultimate Dance Revolution 3 (A.Y 2013 – 2014). The dance crew was the first runner up during Ultimate Dance Revolution 2 which was held on 2012.