Kasadyahan finally bid farewell to Dinagyang
Posted by on January 24, 2010
For the very last time, the Kasadyahan Festival has been held as a Dinagyang Festival add-on activity. Starting next year, Kasadyahan will be staged as a separate full-fledged festival in Iloilo City Philippines.
For its last hurrah, 9 groups competed during the Saturday’s Kasadyahan Festival Competition. thousands of people, both local and tourists flocked to the four judging areas to witness the presentations.
Last year’s winner, (and the Aliwan Fiesta 2009 1st runner up) Tribu Kasag from the town of Banate once again presented a high-energy dance routine which kept everyone at the edge of their seats.
What even made their presentation more spectacular was their costume-changing routine. The group has changed costume at least three times.
The Tinuom Festival from the town of Cabatuan presented through dance the steps of cooking an Ilonggo dish that originally came from this town: the Tinuom. A chicken cooked in clay pot with tomatoes, onions, lemon grass, and wrapped in banana leaves.
All in all, I am very happy with the staging of thi’s year’s Kasadyahan Festival. It is just so sad to think that this is going to be her last performance as the Dinagyang Festival. I do not know what activity will replace the Kasadyahan, or when will the Kasadyahan be staged next year.
I can only hope that the presentations for next year would be grand and colorful! Hala Bira Iloilo!
More photos soon!
It’s good to hear that Kasadyahan would have its own time to shine next year rather than making it just part of Dinagyang. I’ll be going next month to Iloilo for my grandfather’s birthday celebration, too bad I’m a month late for Dinagyang
For me it is just a wrong decision, they should just have fused the two festivals together to form a bigger dinagyang. They just have to be in 2 categories. Just like SINULOG Free Interpretation and Sinulog Based. They should stage it in one day, para lesser expenses, more particpants and off course bigger festival compared if both festivals are just stand alone.
That is lacking in Manila these days. There are no fiesta in Manila that is highly visited by tourist and domestic alike.
I love the pictures….
The question though lingers in Iloilo: What will happen in next year’s Dinagyang without the Kasadyahan? Who or what will fill the void that it has left?
i just would like to point in the article, tinuom festival is from cabatuan iloilo, not banate..you mixed it up. tinuom is the specialty of cabatuan..the dancers pictured here with banana leaves are from tribu cabatuan…
hello maria,
thanks for the correction. Twas Cabatuan indeed, and not Banate