07/12/2025
3 days of practice, but we managed to be on Top!
K-Pop Dance Contest with Holiday Twist!
3rd Placer
(❤️TWISTED LOVE❤️)
K-POP
Characters:
•JOEY: The charming, central male lead.
•CARLO: JOEY'S best friend and dance partner, secretly harbors deeper feelings.
•NICEE: The enthusiastic female lead, partnered with JOEY, and harbors a crush on him.
•RADGEL: The flamboyant, confident dancer, secretly crushes on CARLO.
The Story
The annual K-POP DANCE CONTEST is the biggest K-Pop dance competition of Butuan City this season, incorporating INCLUSIVITY, HARMONY, AND HUMILITY. The four best friends JOEY, CARLO, NICEE, and RADGEL are all competing, but their intricate relationships threaten to unravel their tightly choreographed routine.
Flashback NICEE is partnered with JOEY and sees this as the perfect chance to express her long-standing crush, designing their routine around K-pop music, overt 'courting' steps. The twist for everyone, the true emotional core of the group, lies between Joey and Carlo. NICEE performs a heartfelt solo, moving towards JOEY, expecting the romantic climax of their routine. Meanwhile, the charismatic RADGEL is focused on winning the competition and getting the attention of CARLO, who seems distant and reserved.
On the other hand, JOEY and CARLO's competitive energy and seemingly platonic closeness during DANCE are actually a carefully guarded performance. CARLO has been subtly weaving secret signals of his love for JOEY into their shared background choreography signals only JOEY can interpret. JOEY, flashing back situation while deeply in love with CARLO, feels pressured by society (and NICEE’s obvious feelings for JOEY) to ignore his heart, maintaining the pretense of a 'straight' courtship story for the stage. And RADGEL pursues his crush on CARLO but is IGNORED in the end. At the very last, JOEY turns his back on the audience's expectation, and his eyes lock onto CARLO.
The final, powerful move is a sudden, breathtaking shift in formation: JOEY and CARLO execute a flawlessly synchronized, intimate partner lift, culminating in them standing in close contact with a move meant for a true couple.
📸 Frank Eriz Aquino Billones
