{"id":12862,"date":"2012-04-11T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:49:24","slug":"filipino-american-dancer-returns-to-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12862","title":{"rendered":"Filipino American Dancer Returns to Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipino-American dancer who has been performing alongside international electro-pop duo <strong>LMFAO<\/strong> has arrived in <strong>Manila<\/strong>, and is set for a homecoming performance with his world-class dance group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan &#8220;Ryanimay&#8221; Conferido<\/strong>, whose father and mother hail from Manila and Polillo respectively, is performing alongside LMFAO during the duo&#8217;s concert at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Conferido is part of the <strong>Asian-American dance group Quest Crew<\/strong>, which won during the third season of reality dance competition<strong> &#8220;America\u2019s Best Dance Crew.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0iPWB29FQNI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nConferido along with his group has since appeared in a number of LMFAO&#8217;s music videos, including the smash hit <strong>&#8220;Sexy and I Know It.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The concert&#8217;s going to be pretty crazy. Quest Crew&#8217;s gonna be performing along with LMFAO,&#8221; Conferido said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be an hour-and-a-half show. It&#8217;s our last show before we head back to the US, so we&#8217;re doing our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conferido said he is excited to be back in the Philippines, adding he especially misses the food and the hospitality of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be back here. Last time we (Quest Crew) were here was almost two years ago. We did a small tour in Eastwood and other places in Manila,\u201d Conferido said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I miss the food, the people. Everybody was really nice to me the first time I was here even though I don\u2019t really speak a lot of Tagalog. It really felt like family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the continuing recognition of Filipino artists and performers in the international scene, Conferido said it\u2019s a <strong>&#8220;positive stereotype&#8221;<\/strong> for his fellow Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of them are getting more exposure as artists back in the States. It&#8217;s almost beginning to be a positive stereotype, that Filipinos are good at things, like singing and dancing and in a lot of creative respects. I feel like a lot of them are getting recognition for it, so it\u2019s great,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs-cbnnews.com\/entertainment\/04\/11\/12\/fil-am-dancer-part-lmfao-concert\">ABS-CBN News<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipino-American dancer who has been performing alongside international electro-pop duo LMFAO has arrived in Manila, and is set for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1],"tags":[2004],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-news","tag-art"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Gerry","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dced5247c785a35531cefaa537a22267219a283257394cd62377f4e1af43b4dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"A Filipino-American dancer who has been performing alongside international electro-pop duo LMFAO has arrived in Manila, and is set for","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Art","News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":137,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Gerry","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=914"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dced5247c785a35531cefaa537a22267219a283257394cd62377f4e1af43b4dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1009\">Art<\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}