SHRINE CITY OF THE PHILIPPINES PLAZA - Certainly showing what "Handuraw" is, merged with harmonized costumes and unrivaled performance and choreography, the contingent representing the Province of Zamboanga del Norte (ZaNorte) successfully clutched the 2nd Handuraw Street Dancing and Final Showdown Competitions victory on Saturday, December 29, 2007.
Displaying a complete vigor in street dancing via Sta. Cruz, Dapitan City to the Dapitan City Square where they, dressing in synchronized attires and demonstrating strategic dance routines, the ZaNorte Province participants also seized the Best in Street Dancing and Best in Costume Competitions lucratively hauling the Best in Choreography with Jessie Flores as choreographer.
The Tribu ni Rizal from Talisay, Dapitan City led by Barangay Captain Pancrasio Abila garnered the first runner-up place which with their systematized concept on how Dr. Jose P. Rizal, arrived in Dapitan City on July, 1892 up to his departure on July, 1896, placed the contingent representing the City Government of Dipolog fronted by Mayor Evelyn Uy with the traditional cooperation of Jose Rizal Memorial State College, Dipolog Campus, to the second runner-up spot.
With their competitive maneuvering on street dancing, the Tribu ni Rizal was also adjudged second in Street Dancing Competition edging the Tribu ni Tino of the Municipality of Manukan to the third spot.
The other competing contingents were the "Maniwaynon" of Municipality of Rizal, Tribu ni Tonio from San Antonio, Municipality of Manukan, and the participants coming from the Municipality of Katipunan, and Cawa-cawa, Dapitan City.
This year's 2nd Handuraw Street Dancing Competition was judged by a high-caliber board of adjudicators, namely; Federico B. Araniego Jr., a Dancesport Champion judged by the Philippine Dancesport Commission - Manila and Cebu Chapters and a choreographer of the Region X entry to the Mart Expo 2002 at SM Megamall Hall, Manila and won and one of the Best Five Cultural Performers; Hon. Edemar S. Alota, President of the Vice Mayor's League of the Philippines, Misamis Occidental Chapter and the Chairman of the Sinanduloy Cultural Troup of Tangub City - the grand prize winner of "Sinulog Festival" of Cebu City for six consecutive years, and Jay Castillo Lorenzo, chairman of the annual "Inug-og Festival" of Oroquieta City and the founder and organizer of the Oroquieta City Cultural Troupe.
Roberto "Bitoy" Gonzales, one of the trainors of the famous Sinanduloy Cultural Troupe of Tangub City and a lifetime member of the Philippine Folkdance Society and Dance Education Association of the Philippines, choreographer and trainer of the "Yagyag Festival" of Brgy. Cangmating, Sibulan, Negros Oriental and the Philippine delegate to the World Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan, and Carlou G. Bernaldez, official choreographer of the City of Dumaguete in the Wow Philippines in Intramuros, Manila last 2004 and the Artistic Director of the Kabilin Dance Troupe of the Negros Oriental State University (NorSu), Dumaguete City were the panel of judges in the Final Showdown Competition.
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