Stanley Alexander and Formation of the Philippine Professional Dance Sport Association (PPDSA)

In 1998, several Filipino dance teachers tried their luck in Australia in search for training and exposure. They experienced the triumph of winning various Australian National Amateur Grade Titles under the training of Mr. Stanley Alexander.  Wanting to bring dance sport to the Philippine masses, discussions were made to form an association in the Philippines to bring high quality dance education and to provide more affordable dance teacher certification through examination. The name Philippine Professional Dance Sport Association has been put together through the help of former First Lady Imelda Marcos who says, “it needs to include the word Philippine to show the organization is national, and include the word Professional to show that the organization is in contrast to the other”.

Its Vision and Mission are:
Placing the Philippines on the World Stage of Dance & Dance Sport by producing World Class
Teachers, Coaches, Adjudicators, Scrutineers & Competitors of Dance & Dance Sport & to eventually become the Peak Body for all Dance & Dance Sport Education in the Philippines.
Continuously provide theoretic, strategic & practical training for teachers, coaches,
adjudicators, scrutineers & competitors through regular seminars, workshops & courses through Dance Sport Clubs, Academies, Studios, Schools, Colleges, Universities, etc. & to make this training affordable & to be available to the masses.

PPDSA produced the first Filipino professional competitors (from December 1999) and are the only local group yet to produce Filipino Professional Champions abroad, successful in several countries winning International Professional Championships from March 2000 through to and including March 2010 with more successes to come.

PPDSA are the only local organization to send licensed professional dance teachers abroad for full time employment in Australia, UK, USA, Europe and Asia, and have been recognized with an award “Most Outstanding Dance School”.

PPDSA were endorsed in 2004 by the Department of Education, DepEd for National Training & Licensing Dance Sport Coaches/Trainors and were sought by DepEd to lead the March 13-14, 2006 DepEd National Training & Licensing of Dance Sport Trainors at Baguio Teachers camp for the purpose of dance sport inclusion to the Palarong Pambansa. PPDSA continued follow on programs as well as assisting develop the Palarong Pambansa Dance Sport Syllabus.

DepEd confirmed that PPDSA will assist manage the April 9, 2010 Palarong Pambansa Dance Sport Demonstration Tournament in Tarlac City, Region III. DepEd also endorsed PPDSA to conduct a Free Dance Sports Seminar April 8-9, 2010 at Tarlac as a lead in to the Palarong Pambansa Dance Sports Demonstration. PPDSA membership was also available. No fee was charged to any participant in the training April 8-9 nor was there a participation fee charged to enter the Dance Sport Tournament April 9, 2010. PPDSA and its member’s volunteered FREE services and as well, PPDSA provided prizes for the DepEd April 9 Tournament participants that included 4 x free air tickets abroad to the under 18yrs winners.

However, PPDSA’s appointment in the Palarong Pambansa by DepEd has been in question by Mr. Willy Rodriguez. Because of this, many issues against its chairman, Stanley Alexander and other organizations/ individuals have been put out in the open.

First is his nationality. Mr. Rodriguez questions Stanley being on tourist visa as he is involved in affairs in our country. Stanley answered this issue by saying he is retired, married with children to a Filipina, and that as chairman of various international and local non stock, non - profit dance organizations, he regularly travels to different countries assisting in dance sport promotion, education and its development. While in Philippines Mr. Alexander occasionally assists in scholar training projects of his beloved PPDSA. As for his being an Honorary Ambassador At Large of Guam, this title was presented out of gratitude for his charitable endeavors relating to dance sport, its performance, competition and education in this US territory.

Stanley admitted that PPDSA went against May 2003 Blackpool winners Edna Ledesma and John Co as they had both been presented by the Professional Dance Teachers Association, PDTA at the DSCP National Championships in late 2002 as Philippine Professionals, members of the PDTA including as a PDTA board member, professional licensed dance teachers (examined and licensed Oct 2002 with NATD), regular professional TV and cabaret performers, adjudicators, earning their living from the profession yet joined in a category far lower than their qualifications to allegedly gain undue credits.
The protest was more in consideration that the organization Edna Ledesma and John Co represented (PDTA) was allegedly restricting and preventing other Filipino professionals from plying their profession with equality; and where this led to several victimized Filipino professionals (non PDTA members) being banned from entering professional events abroad.

This PPDSA action against Edna Ledesma and John Co was not so much a personal attack against the pair, rather against the organization (PDTA) that they were representing, led by a chairman professing to be an elite WDC International adjudicator one day and then a lowly senior amateur competitor another; which can be likened to a doctor leading the Philippine Medical Board one day and then assuming duties as a nurse’s orderly the next, a laughable situation by most people’s standards.
PPDSA and its affiliated organizations Austral-Asian Arts Theater Dance (AATD) Inc., World Casino Dance Federation (WCDF) Inc., National Dance League (NDL) Inc., are all member organizations of the peak Philippines professional body, the National Dance Teachers Council (NDTC) Inc, which is accredited by Philippines Games and Amusement Board (GAB) that regulates and supervises the profession of dance sport; and where these before mentioned SEC registered and incorporated organizations have only ever operated in a completely legal and professional manner. NDTC encompasses most professional dance sport organizations within the Philippines (eight professional groups from the nine locally operating)

Certain claims of Mr. Willy Rodriguez that Stanley Alexander had referred or suggested demeaning statements that may be insulting towards Filipino/s is just totally not true and had never ever been uttered.

All documents issued by or relating directly to Stanley Alexander, PPDSA, AATD, NDL, WCDF &/or the NDTC placed without permission at Face Book and/or other internet sites by Mr. Rodriguez are legal documents, yet placed by Mr. Rodriguez with an attached insinuation to be otherwise.
These Philippine dance sport associations and various individual personalities including Stanley that have been recently maligned through these and other issues released on Face Book and/or other internet sites are now working in consultation with attorneys towards a lawsuit against the malicious libelous allegations among other matters of Mr. Rodriguez and his accomplices.