Just when everyone thought summer is fading fast, the Banana Capital of the South throws a colorful party to end this hot, hot season with performances by the Curay Dance and Arts Workshop (CDAW), Panabo City ’s premiere dance and arts studio.
The jampacked Panabo gymnasium and the excited crowd witnessed the grace, style and creative choreography as workshop graduates paid tribute to classic Disney themes, modern beats and Broadway musicals in various dance numbers.
With recital theme Dance Reload, about 180 workshop graduates grabbed the spotlight.
The audience wowed at the ballet skills of the kids enrolled in baby and advance ballet classes, and at the fluid moves of Hawaiian dancers dressed in colorful grass skirts. The jazz group presented experts from the hit musicale “Chicago,’’ while the hip hop dancers danced to heart stomping arrangements.The night was also highlighted by the taekwondo dancercise.
PANABO’S ‘MOTHER OF PERFORMING ARTS’
“It’s the same excitement and enthusiasm year after year,” enthused Darling Curay, CDAW over-all aesthetic director.
CDAW has become a recognized dance institution in the area with 22 years of training and workshop experience under its belt.
Darling’s Management degree from Ateneo de Davao University might have been put aside awhile when she opened the studio in March 1988 to give way to her heart’s desire for performing arts.
Her various dance trainings with well-known performers, exposures in stage and theater and additional degree in Physical Education beefed up her credentials as performing artist.
“It’s all for the love of performing arts. My vocation to share my talent, as well as my dance instructors’ makes for the lifeblood of this studio,” Darling added. “We want to nurture, develop and enhance the ability and talent of every individual and inculcate in our students appreciation and valuing of art and the artist.”
She said every year, they face the perennial problem of finding sponsors, one reason why in some years they did not have grand recital. It was only recently when people started noticing and eventually appreciated their efforts in performing arts.
Today, the Dance Reload recital has shown that it can be done. There is in fact an overload of dancers in this city, young and energetic performers who will hopefully pass on the love for the arts to the next generations.
