{"id":16161,"date":"2018-03-20T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2019-03-29T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:12:35","slug":"pedrodt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/pedrodt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Avil\u00e9s joins the Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n University Dance Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sagrado welcomes a new Dance Team member: Pedro Avil\u00e9s<\/p>\n

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By Jo-Lyannie Ventureira Ramos
\n<\/strong>Journalism student
\nSagrado Sports<\/p>\n

The director of one of Puerto Rico\u2019s most important dance companies and choreographer and dance captain of one of Cirque du Soleil\u2019s shows has arrived at Sagrado to direct our Dance Team.<\/p>\n

Pedro Avil\u00e9s began his artistic career at the G.O.P. Dance School in Guaynabo. He was the director of the dance school\u2019s \u201c787 Crew,\u201d which participated in various dance competitions: America\u2019s Best Dance Crew and America\u2019s Got Talent. He later went on to become the dance captain of Cirque Du Soleil\u2019s Michael Jackson One in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter two years, I decided to close that chapter and pursue further artistic development. I returned to Puerto Rico to work with the G.O.P. Dance Company until Mari Batista invited me to become the new director of the Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n University Dance Team,\u201d Avil\u00e9s said.<\/p>\n

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For Avil\u00e9s, leading the dance team, is one of the biggest challenges he has faced, given that all of its members are new. The auditions for the dance team were held on January 8, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big challenge in the sense that all the other teams have been preparing for a long time and have participated in other competitions, and I\u2019m starting from scratch with team members who didn\u2019t know each other; but the expectations are to try to organize them, polish their routines, and create a powerful choreography for the intercollegiate athletic games (las Justas<\/em>),\u201d Avil\u00e9s said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The athletic director, Mari Batista, expressed the need to have more than a dance team director, but a mentor to provide dancers with guidance, confidence, and security in each show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dance Team, although not an official sport of the LAI (Spanish acronym for the Intercollegiate Athletic League), has always being a good representative of the university. Students love to see them dance and they travel just to watch them at the Sports Festival. They feel very proud of their team,\u201d the athletic director said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both Batista and Avil\u00e9s understand that time plays a key role for this year\u2019s show, but at the same time, they consider this a long-term project<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not looking to be ranked among the first places this year, but I know that with Pedro\u2019s experience and the dedication of the team members we will improve every year until we are ranked at the top,\u201d Batista noted.<\/p>\n

The training of the Dance Team is divided into retraining and motor skill building, turns technique, or physical training. They practice three times a week in San Patricio, Guaynabo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to bring the experience I gathered over 20 years in my career and share it with this new team,\u201d Avil\u00e9s said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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