Carcar, Talisay dominates Sinulog sa Kabataan – Lalawigan 2011

San Roque Elementary School of Talisay City and the DepEd Division of Carcar dominated the Sinulog sa Kabataan sa Lalawigan 2011 Streetdancing competition held earlier today. The Streetdancing started propmptly at 1PM from the Cebu Provincial Capitol passing through Jones Avenue before making a left to the Abellana Sports Stadium for the finale performance.

Sinulog 2011 Winners

The Cebu Sinulog Festival 2011 are now in full swing! Various activities are now being held all over city city in line with the festival. Here are the winners of the Sinulog 2011. The List will be updated once new results are in.

Sabang National High School

Sinulog sa Kabataan 2011 Contingents

Today, the battle for supremacy begins as Cebu City hosts the annual Sinulog sa Kabataan Streetdancing competition. This year, we will be seeing adrenaline pumping performances from 36 schools from all over Cebu . The top winners of the Sinulog sa Kabataan are automatically eligible to join the Sinulog 2011 Grand Parade.

Bailes de Luces 2011

Last January 5 I flew to Bacolod City then took a two hour bus ride to La Castellana, a southern town in Negros Occidental.

This year, Bailes de Luces held its 13th edition of the festival as a celebration of the town’s founding anniversary.

Unlike other festivals, Bailes de Luces is held at night time for very obvious reasons: It is a festival of lights. The beautiful interplay of lights play a big role in judging the groups. If I am not mistaken the artistic display of lights consists of 40% of the total scores. That’s pretty big. Even bigger than the criteria for Choroegraphy, and costumes.

It was my first time to actually see the Bailes de Luces competition, and I am tuly amazed at the wonderful performances of the schools and Barangays!

The first time I saw Bailes de Luces perform was during the 2009 Panaad sa Negros Festival of Festivals. During that time, I was totally blown away by the group’s performance. Their number landed them on the top spot and earn the Championship Trophy.

Bailes de Luces is now on its 13th year, unfortunately only a few knows of its existence. Not a lot of people outside of Negros are aware that a festival of Lights a beautiful and crazy as this exists in La Castellana.

I am very confident that this festival has a very bright future. I hope that th LGU of La Castellana would further promote Bailes de Luces by joining other competitions like Electric Masskara which is a new attraction during the Masskara Festival (can they actually join there?), BacoLaoDiat, Aliwan Fiesta, among others.

It is high time that people should be aware that a colorful festival exists in Negros occidental.

Until now I still have a hangover of the festivities. I swear, I return to La Castellana this December for the streetdance competition, and on January 5th 2012 for the Arena Competition of Bailes de Luces 2012!

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