Street Dance: Frolic Progress towards of Unity Amidst Diversity

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After a 30 minutes travel from Gensan, we found our ways to Alabel, Sarangani, a beautiful flora and fauna town celebrating their third day of Munato Festival last Saturday.

Sunlight immediately hit our faces and the air brushed by hair, everything just felt right, it’s surreal were in Alabel. We walk our way through the capitol, seeing hundreds of Sarangans wearing a smile, it was as though we had been here all my life.

One of the highlights of the said festivity is the Street Dance Competition. With their colorful props and costumes, to a magnificent choreography of their performances, every Municipality, from East and West coast must compete with their different street dances.

The first contender is from the Municipality of Glan. With their state of the art props and static movements, the Glan School of Arts and Trade performers show a very difficult contender in the competition. Their dance represents their festival, the Lubi-Lubi Festival in which they regard the Coconut tree as their main livelihood and how it affects their daily lives. Certainly, you can safely say it was...

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