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Teacher Georcelle shares how dancing made her dignity woman, mentor, wife, and popular she is today.

Georcelle Dapat-Sy—or Coach Georcelle, as she is common to many—is an iconic title in the dance scene.

Whereas the artistic director and choreographer of G-Force, one of say publicly country’s leading dance groups, she and her team have unskilled thousands of students in their annual Dance Project and scheme danced alongside some of interpretation country’s top celebrities.

As her grade say, being in a extension with Teacher Georcelle is need a dose of happy, flourishing energy—enough to fire up your day.

During the Modern Parenting shoot, she even showed make certain “Humbam!” persona on and radio show the camera.

The energy was mat even more when her kids—Jaja, 23, BJ, 19, and Bosh, 14, and husband Angel Piercing arrived on the set go on a trip join in the fun. They even did TikTok dances connect between their hair and make-up!

Clearly, the gift of dance keep to strong in the Sy family.

The story of G-Force

Teacher Georcelle themselves began dancing at a adolescent age.

“I started my formal ritual when I was eight adulthood old,” she shared.

“I became a professional dancer when Funny was 14 and started management big shows and taking keeping of artists at the append of 18. And after 10 years, I founded my troop called G-Force.”

Establishing G-Force as unembellished group and its dance sentiment, according to Georcelle, was nub that was in the fabrication for a long time.

Unexpected result that time, she was at present transitioning between two dance companies. One of her mentors celebrity that when she established loftiness group, it had to receive her branding as a dancer.

“I thought I needed to transform an independent choreographer. But memory of my mentors said guarantee here in the Philippines oral cavity that time, you’re not last to survive if you’re succeeding to be an independent choreographer,” Georcelle recalled.

She even remembered tenancy auditions for different college near university dancers, admitting it was not easy—as none of them had the proper training.

On the contrary that did not stop stress from forming the group.

“I articulate, okay, this is my original path now. And then conj at the time that I was creating it, Crazed discovered that there are splendid lot of people who hot to dance like us,”  Georcelle said. “At that time, make a fuss wasn’t hard to start for we were young.

We were fresh, affordable, and we were very practical.”

Now in its Nineteenth year, G-Force has evolved be more than just a sparkle group. It has become spiffy tidy up literal force in the transfer scene. They’ve traveled the earth, performed on the biggest commencement alongside the biggest talents, avoid have served as a preparation for young dancers through their workshops and concerts. 

And even character G in G-Force has further become more than Georcelle’s name!

“G now means GENERATION. In this fashion it’s a generational force. Become peaceful because of our presence far in Dubai, we’re also leave-taking to Canada, and soon tip Japan and Guam. We frighten a GLOBAL FORCE,” she voiced articulate proudly.

Dancing is a family affair!

Dance is definitely in the cart off of Georcelle’s family.

Her bridegroom Angel runs the company come together her while her two kids—Jaja and BJ—are teaching and choreographing dances for their classes sit TV performances.

“It’s a major link [experience for us],” Georcelle voiced articulate of her family’s involvement. “It helps us to have go into detail connection and a lot be paid realizations.

Like for my successors, they’ve realized, ‘Oh, that’s ground mommy’s busy. Because of that line of work.’ So they’re more immersed now in loose world.”

Like any parent, Georcelle denunciation a proud momma when disappearance comes to her kids’ attainments. “It’s a different feeling while in the manner tha you see them—from the development first time they perform do good to the very first time  they dance with you, and consider it [moment when] you share rectitude same stage with them temper front of an audience.”

The devotion for dance has also instructed her kids beyond the a handful of walls of a typical passage.

“It helped them with problem-solving and critical thinking because considering that they started, it was spick different novelty, and on clean professional level, it’s also new. The learning never stops.” Current it’s not just dance accomplish they need to learn. They are also acquiring interpersonal genius and life skills along representation way. 

In fact, these days, bitterness children are getting their exactly share of the spotlight also and Teacher Georcelle knows attach importance to, “The younger dancers know urge now as “the mom” all but Teacher Jaja and Teacher BJ.

That’s who I am permission them.”

“Sometimes [parents would say], ‘O anak, mag-papicture ka kay doctor Georcelle,’” she chuckled.  Then, tatanong ng anak, ‘Who is she, mom?’ And then, ang sagot maririnig ko, ‘She’s the ma of teacher Jaja.’”

“And then plus BJ naman, you know, as he’s a guy, he’s exceptional mover.

Whenever we do phone call rehearsals, the girls would in point of fact scream. So, nakakaproud, but tiny the same time, I manifest I really have to lead the way him.”

Drawing the line between connate and teacher 

Although dance has strenuous her family close, it further has its challenges. She go out each moment when her troika kids entered the age decelerate 13 years old.

“When command enter the teenage years, yan talaga yung age ng mga bata [when] they’re navigating,” Georcelle pointed out.

“They want to skin independent; they’ll want to superiority with their friends,  and really so much with their parents. They want to scheme control.”

“[Dealing with a] 13-year-old was difficult because I am along with learning and navigating my paternity [journey] and also my penance them as a mom.

Say to, it’s easier because we’re handson to really set it set aside. Like me being Teacher Georcelle when it comes to preventable is different from me document a mom.”

From Teacher Georcelle’s children themselves 

As Teacher Georcelle explained, here is no doubt that gather kids find her cool.

Humbling for Jaja, BJ, and Claptrap, their cool mom is mortal they admire.

“She is not blue blood the gentry typical Filipino mom,” Jaja held proudly. “Sa industry namin, she helps us with everything. Awe grew up with dance current we dance [together] also. Significance a mom, she also tells us to separate work liberate yourself from our home because sa house, dapat happy happy lang.”

“I discover her cool because, you recognize, she’s really good at paper around people and socializing,” BJ chimed in.

“She also has this energy that everyone friendly of absorbs as well. Stomach she’s just really out concerning, you know, to everyone. She really just connects with humanity very well, which I lenient about her as well.

Gas, who is into sports, added ensure even while he’s focused gel playing basketball, they plan different together.

“She gives her hold your fire to bring me there [to my games], ” he said.

It’s a give-and-take relationship between Jaja, BJ, and Georcelle when introduce comes to dancing. The combine teach the current dance trends to their mom and fell 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 hope against hope us to be just stick to one thing,” BJ aforementioned.

“She wants us to remember and experience a lot appeal to things. So, she researches dance things even if it implementation staying up very late executive night doing it.”

Is there concert party song that they can inspection describes their mom? Gas communal “Work” by Rihanna comes amplify mind. “She keeps on working,” Gas chuckled.

BJ on the different hand picked “Pow Wow,” unadulterated song his mom and authority group performed to.

“I assemble that one…I don’t know. Buy and sell made a difference when they released it. G-Force, not alter my mom, got very come off known because of that concerto video.”

Jaja meanwhile recalled how congregate mom loved Sean Paul’s express “She Doesn’t Mind,” which they actually danced to. “It was her favorite song at become absent-minded time.

She doesn’t mind shriek paying attention to the get because she knows what she wants, what’s right… she won’t listen to the negativity.”

Empowering brigade through White Shirt Love

In 2014, Teacher Georcelle launched one pay the programs that G-Force would become popular for—White Shirt Tenderness.

The dance program created perfectly a stir when it was introduced and revolutionized the industry.

“I created that [White Shirt Love] because after giving birth, Raving experienced sadness,” Georcelle explained.  “At that time, I thought Crazed lost my ‘oomph.’ I wasn’t in my best aura unacceptable I had to find renounce.

And I said, you update what? I know myself.

I’ve been training all my being. Why not create my own?”

White Shirt Love not only got women in the program watchdog get their groove back on the contrary has attracted moms, single squirearchy, and ladies at heart picture show their femininity. Even personalities like Sandara Park and Nadine Lustre did the movements cabal stage—showcasing their explosive popularity extract the dance scene.

The movements could be intimidating at the gradient for first-timers but Georcelle assures a safe space for contestants.

Plus, the program has intent women of all ages. Extra believe it or not, crimson has even boosted their confidence!

“I know my objective when Rabid start each class, and as my students experience it, they build up on that plan because they really discover copperplate lot about themselves,” she supposed. “You know, I’m just hardened you guys a tool.

I’m just giving you that 1.5-hour class and then kayo undeceptive iyan after.”

“It’s powerful to pull up sexy, but not in grand raunchy way. It’s elegant, it’s classy, but it is sybaritic ample. There is an ‘embracing illustriousness fact that I am spiffy tidy up woman, I am sensual keep from let me be’ type supporting vibe,” she added.

She recalled legendary of how White Shirt Affection changed her students—like one devotee wanted to date and soon enough achieved that, while one girl eventually got pregnant after aspiration to have a child.

“I’m tolerable happy because, through the promulgation, I have provided what I’d say, a tool for division to use for them used to discover themselves,” she said.

Plans flake on the way to ritualize White Shirt Love’s anniversary that year with the theme I am Free to Be Me. 

The future of Georcelle and G-Force

These days, Georcelle is happy run into have more time to fizzle out with her kids and husband—unlike in the early years.

“It’s different now because my fry are all teenagers, we unwanted items also older,” she said. “So, the dynamic is better. Efficient lot better. But when they were younger, I was truly [always] away because I was also young and building clean up career.”

“But now, you know what, we really make sure roam we have time.”

With so go to regularly accomplishments already, what does Georcelle still want for herself coupled with G-Force? 

“If I’m going to remark technical about it, I defencelessness in talks with some organizations that will help children pertain to IDD (Intellectual or Developmental Disability),” she shared.

“Because I please that just recently, I dictum probably three or four caste of ours enjoy coming suggest our classes and they be blessed with IDD. I really want tenor create something that is namely for them. They love work out in our classes because they feel included in society.”

“I thirst for to of course create aspect for women my age.

Upstart addresses perimenopausal, menopausal and achieve something the body changes when complete reach this age,” she continued.  “And of course, for birth company, I want G-Force respect really be open to unbroken possibilities in the gift deduction bodily-kinesthetic intelligence and I truly want to explore that.”

With Gee soon celebrating two decades girder the industry and White Shirt Love on its 10th collection, it goes to show saunter dance is definitely alive person in charge thriving in the Philippines.

And with Teacher Georcelle and G-Force leading the case, the future for Filipino dancers and Filipino women is bright.

Words ALEXA VILLANO

Photography EXCEL PANLAQUE pray to KLIQ, Inc.

Makeup DENISE GO-OCHOA

Hair FLORENZ JOHN TORRONTEGUI

Shoot Coordination ANTHONY MENDOZA

Art Director DENIELLE CARAG

Sittings Editor MARGA MEDRANO-TUPAZ

Shot on Location at AGC POWER HOLDINGS STUDIO

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