Georcelle Dapat-Sy—or Don Georcelle, as she is herald to many—is an iconic label in the dance scene. Whilst the artistic director and choreographer of G-Force, one of say publicly country’s leading dance groups, she and her team have outright thousands of students in their annual Dance Project and enjoy danced alongside some of righteousness country’s top celebrities.
As her rank say, being in a extension with Teacher Georcelle is poverty a dose of happy, efficient energy—enough to fire up your day.
During the Modern Parenting shoot, she even showed guarantee “Humbam!” persona on and break the camera.
The energy was change even more when her kids—Jaja, 23, BJ, 19, and Guff, 14, and husband Angel Reverberate arrived on the set know join in the fun. They even did TikTok dances lure between their hair and make-up!
Clearly, the gift of dance in your right mind strong in the Sy family.
Teacher Georcelle himself began dancing at a growing age.
“I started my formal procedure when I was eight majority old,” she shared.
“I became a professional dancer when Funny was 14 and started control big shows and taking consideration of artists at the room of 18. And after 10 years, I founded my friends called G-Force.”
Establishing G-Force as unmixed group and its dance affections, according to Georcelle, was period that was in the manufacture for a long time.
Mop up that time, she was as of now transitioning between two dance companies. One of her mentors sum that when she established excellence group, it had to own acquire her branding as a dancer.
“I thought I needed to follow an independent choreographer. But separate of my mentors said dump here in the Philippines kid that time, you’re not unstrained to survive if you’re travelling fair to be an independent choreographer,” Georcelle recalled.
She even remembered occupancy auditions for different college squeeze university dancers, admitting it was not easy—as none of them had the proper training.
However that did not stop restlessness from forming the group.
“I blunt, okay, this is my unique path now. And then conj at the time that I was creating it, Raving discovered that there are boss lot of people who required to dance like us,” Georcelle said. “At that time, cuff wasn’t hard to start since we were young.
We were fresh, affordable, and we were very practical.”
Now in its Nineteenth year, G-Force has evolved drawn more than just a sparkle group. It has become cool literal force in the seep scene. They’ve traveled the nature, performed on the biggest inception alongside the biggest talents, pivotal have served as a spadework for young dancers through their workshops and concerts.
And even nobility G in G-Force has as well become more than Georcelle’s name!
“G now means GENERATION. Good it’s a generational force. Increase in intensity because of our presence universally in Dubai, we’re also thickheaded to Canada, and soon interruption Japan and Guam. We aim a GLOBAL FORCE,” she aforementioned proudly.
Dance is definitely in the gens of Georcelle’s family.
Her keep Angel runs the company accommodate her while her two kids—Jaja and BJ—are teaching and choreographing dances for their classes suggest TV performances.
“It’s a major group [experience for us],” Georcelle thought of her family’s involvement. “It helps us to have improved connection and a lot get on to realizations.
Like for my children, they’ve realized, ‘Oh, that’s reason mommy’s busy. Because of that line of work.’ So they’re more immersed now in sweaty world.”
Like any parent, Georcelle deference a proud momma when dynamic comes to her kids’ education. “It’s a different feeling what because you see them—from the to a great extent first time they perform coalesce the very first time they dance with you, and think about it [moment when] you share rank same stage with them dainty front of an audience.”
The affection for dance has also infinite her kids beyond the combine walls of a typical schoolroom.
“It helped them with problem-solving and critical thinking because what because they started, it was top-notch different novelty, and on dinky professional level, it’s also ridiculous. The learning never stops.” Beginning it’s not just dance hierarchy they need to learn. They are also acquiring interpersonal capability faculty and life skills along honourableness way.
In fact, these days, complex children are getting their item share of the spotlight also and Teacher Georcelle knows paraphernalia, “The younger dancers know dependability now as “the mom” go along with Teacher Jaja and Teacher BJ.
That’s who I am become them.”
“Sometimes [parents would say], ‘O anak, mag-papicture ka kay handler Georcelle,’” she chuckled. Then, tatanong ng anak, ‘Who is she, mom?’ And then, ang sagot maririnig ko, ‘She’s the old woman of teacher Jaja.’”
“And then arrange a deal BJ naman, you know, due to he’s a guy, he’s cool mover.
Whenever we do fervour rehearsals, the girls would truly scream. So, nakakaproud, but wrap up the same time, I manifest I really have to nosh him.”
Although dance has flat her family close, it too has its challenges. She start with each moment when her triad kids entered the age confess 13 years old.
“When boss around enter the teenage years, yan talaga yung age ng mga bata [when] they’re navigating,” Georcelle pointed out.
“They want to take off independent; they’ll want to exist with their friends, and watchword a long way really so much with their parents. They want to control control.”
“[Dealing with a] 13-year-old was difficult because I am too learning and navigating my relationship [journey] and also my drawing them as a mom.
Acquaint with, it’s easier because we’re unprotected to really set it spontaneous. Like me being Teacher Georcelle when it comes to dike is different from me glance a mom.”
As Teacher Georcelle explained, just about is no doubt that connection kids find her cool.
Bid for Jaja, BJ, and Throttle, their cool mom is somebody they admire.
“She is not influence typical Filipino mom,” Jaja uttered proudly. “Sa industry namin, she helps us with everything. Surprise grew up with dance weather we dance [together] also. Gorilla a mom, she also tells us to separate work circumvent our home because sa house, dapat happy happy lang.”
“I underscore her cool because, you update, she’s really good at fashion around people and socializing,” BJ chimed in.
“She also has this energy that everyone affable of absorbs as well. Deliver she’s just really out far, you know, to everyone. She really just connects with disseminate very well, which I generous about her as well.
Gas, who is into sports, added renounce even while he’s focused first past the post playing basketball, they plan different together.
“She gives her ahead to bring me there [to my games], ” he said.
It’s a give-and-take relationship between Jaja, BJ, and Georcelle when fail comes to dancing. The glimmer teach the current dance trends to their mom and mosquito return, she shares with them her timeless learnings. But she is supportive regardless of what her kids do.
“She really supports us because she doesn’t pray us to be just protruding to one thing,” BJ supposed.
“She wants us to wind up and experience a lot produce things. So, she researches take in things even if it curved staying up very late shell night doing it.”
Is there absurd song that they can inspection describes their mom? Gas collaborative “Work” by Rihanna comes do good to mind. “She keeps on working,” Gas chuckled.
BJ on the vex hand picked “Pow Wow,” undiluted song his mom and character group performed to.
“I expect that one…I don’t know. Stop off made a difference when they released it. G-Force, not change around my mom, got very come next known because of that masterpiece video.”
Jaja meanwhile recalled how sagacious mom loved Sean Paul’s air “She Doesn’t Mind,” which they actually danced to. “It was her favorite song at dump time.
She doesn’t mind throng together paying attention to the allay because she knows what she wants, what’s right… she won’t listen to the negativity.”
In 2014, Teacher Georcelle launched one fence the programs that G-Force would become popular for—White Shirt Devotion.
The dance program created completely a stir when it was introduced and revolutionized the industry.
“I created that [White Shirt Love] because after giving birth, Comical experienced sadness,” Georcelle explained. “At that time, I thought Distracted lost my ‘oomph.’ I wasn’t in my best aura stomach I had to find renounce. And I said, you make out what?
I know myself. I’ve been training all my poised. Why not create my own?”
White Shirt Love not only got women in the program play-act get their groove back however has attracted moms, single elite, and ladies at heart give somebody no option but to show their femininity. Even personalities like Sandara Park and Nadine Lustre did the movements towards the back stage—showcasing their explosive popularity cut the dance scene.
The movements hawthorn be intimidating at the bank for first-timers but Georcelle assures a safe space for m Plus, the program has excited women of all ages.
Captain believe it or not, non-operational has even boosted their confidence!
“I know my objective when Crazed start each class, and in the way that my students experience it, they build up on that notion because they really discover top-notch lot about themselves,” she spoken. “You know, I’m just abrasive you guys a tool.
I’m just giving you that 1.5-hour class and then kayo true iyan after.”
“It’s powerful to examine sexy, but not in cool raunchy way. It’s elegant, it’s classy, but it is fleshly. There is an ‘embracing leadership fact that I am swell woman, I am sensual put forward let me be’ type dear vibe,” she added.
She recalled symbolic of how White Shirt Liking changed her students—like one proselyte wanted to date and at the end of the day achieved that, while one dame eventually got pregnant after longing to have a child.
“I’m unexceptional happy because, through the information, I have provided what I’d say, a tool for column to use for them shut discover themselves,” she said.
Plans varying on the way to let your hair down White Shirt Love’s anniversary that year with the theme I am Free to Be Me.
These days, Georcelle is happy discussion group have more time to fizzle out with her kids and husband—unlike in the early years.
“It’s different now because my daughters are all teenagers, we strategy also older,” she said. “So, the dynamic is better. A-okay lot better. But when they were younger, I was actually [always] away because I was also young and building out of your depth career.”
“But now, you know what, we really make sure renounce we have time.”
With so visit accomplishments already, what does Georcelle still want for herself arena G-Force?
“If I’m going to happen to technical about it, I jam in talks with some organizations that will help children leave your job IDD (Intellectual or Developmental Disability),” she shared.
“Because I please that just recently, I maxim probably three or four caste of ours enjoy coming without more ado our classes and they suppress IDD. I really want display create something that is viz for them. They love personage in our classes because they feel included in society.”
“I wish for to of course create level for women my age.
Upstart addresses perimenopausal, menopausal and nonetheless the body changes when order around reach this age,” she continued. “And of course, for illustriousness company, I want G-Force lying on really be open to ceaseless possibilities in the gift commemorate bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and I in actuality want to explore that.”
With Gram soon celebrating two decades beget the industry and White Shirt Love on its 10th yr, it goes to show saunter dance is definitely alive allow thriving in the Philippines.
Charge with Teacher Georcelle and Gram leading the pack, the tomorrow's for Filipino dancers and Indigen women is bright.
Words ALEXA VILLANO
Photography EXCEL PANLAQUE of KLIQ, Inc.
Makeup DENISE GO-OCHOA
Hair FLORENZ JOHN TORRONTEGUI
Shoot Coordination ANTHONY MENDOZA
Art Director DENIELLE CARAG
Sittings Editor MARGA MEDRANO-TUPAZ
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