iMedia: De La Cru

Fall Sports Assembly 2010

In all four years of my high school career, I've participated in the De La Cru Hip Hop dance team that's held at GBS. I've been on the JV team freshman year, and on the varsity team since sophomore year. Dancing is truly my favorite hobby out of all the hobbies I acquire and I want to carry that on throughout my life.

This is my last year being on the team, and even though it's going to be very sad and painful to leave the group, I know that that is motivating me to do my best this year. As I view this video, it really shows the progression we've been through, throughout many years (even before I was on the team).

To take a look at DLC's history, it started out being the hip hop portion of the Orchesis dance troupe. Then two teachers (I believe Mrs. Moulakelis was one of them) took DLC out of Orchesis to make it into it's own group. In the beginning, the team only included Hispanics and students of Latin origin so it wasn't very diverse. And as the years proceeded, it's reputation and diversity improved. 

As a freshmen, DLC was just a dance team, nothing special. But throughout my 4 years of high school, I've seen how much this dance team has evolved. Our reputation grew, the number of dancers from different ethnicities grew, and our popularity grew as well. This just shows how such a little group, that has been disliked and unknown, can grow up to be a beautiful form of art that is enjoyed being viewed.

This just reminds me of the times I watch America's Best Dance Crew and they show dance teams that started out without any official dance studios or that don't have any money to buy themselves costumes, but with determination, motivation, and optimism, they were able to achieve their dreams of becoming one of the best dance teams out there in America.

I can say that we did the same; we don't have a dance room to ourselves, we use the cafeterias as our practice rooms, we make our own costumes, and we practice our dances without mirrors. But through all of those challenging obstacles, in the end we were able to become one of the best entertaining clubs offered at GBS.