Her effervescent spirit energizing every step, Christina Jacildo \u201910 envisions a future in performance. \u201cLife\u2019s a stage for me,\u201d says the 24-year-old\u00a0 who rhapsodizes about dancing and \u201cbeing around people I love.\u201d
<\/strong><\/p>\nJacildo\u2019s joy bubbles up through many media. She contributes reviews and articles to May Pang\u2019s Asian Media Internet News. \u201cWhen I write, I\u2019m very opinionated,\u201d she observes. \u201cI like to make my writing fun.\u201d Urged by friends to become a DJ for online Asian radio, she delighted in telling \u201cthe stories of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
A tap dancer since kindergarten, ever since then Jacildo has been choreographing personal experience into narrative art. \u201cI\u2019m a very happy person. Usually my dances are very happy,\u201d she says. At a dance school, she taught tap and jazz to young teens. At Queens College she created dances for peers and faculty, and tap danced in Anything Goes<\/i>. For one class, the drama, theatre, and dance major created a lyrical piece (with some jazz elements) in memory of her grandmother in Texas, whose dying wish was that her granddaughter complete college.<\/p>\n
There was little doubt in Jacildo\u2019s mind that she would graduate, even when she took a year off to sort through careers. After her sophomore year at Lehman College, she transferred to QC. While convincing her parents, who immigrated from the Philippines, that medicine, computer science, and accounting really weren\u2019t for her, she got their permission to study dance. She felt sure she was exemplifying another of her parents\u2019 expectations for their only child: to make good decisions.<\/p>\n
Jacildo will spend the coming year in South Korea, where she will tutor and perhaps teach dance and review concerts. \u201cI want to make an impact on people,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Musical tastes:<\/strong> \u201cIf you let me listen to something new\u2014classical, pop, even grunge\u2014I\u2019ll learn to like it,\u201d Jacildo says. She\u2019s also fond of \u201cold school stuff\u2014I\u2019m a big Beatles fan.\u201d East Asian pop is her favorite, especially Korean boy bands.<\/p>\nSurprising fact:<\/strong> Through Twitter, Jacildo landed a chance to take \u201ca Japanese celebrity\u201d\u2014DJ U-Ichi from the hip-hop band Home Made Kazoku\u2014to lunch in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Name: Christina JacildoMajor: Drama, Theatre & Dance Year: 2010From: Native New Yorker Why QC: It was closer to where I live, and they had a dance program with tap dance classes “Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.”- Christina Jacildo Student Profiles Alumni Profiles Faculty Profiles Staff Profiles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}