Hello there, dear Hivers! Today I will share with you what happened last Sunday, September 15, 2024. Yesterday is a feast day in our city, the Danao City.
September 15, 2024, is a feast day in our city, the Danao City, Cebu. As we celebrate our feast, it is our culture to have our festival, which is the Karansa Festival. In my latest blog, I already shared with you what the Karansa Festival is. So now I will share with you the further meaning of the Karansa Festival.
Karansa Festival is a prevalent joyful making festivity among the tenants of Danao, Cebu Province. The merriment incorporates different moving exhibitions, eating and drinking in festivity to the region's ceramics-making livelihood. The word “Karansa” is native to Danao City and means dancing to the rhythmic beats of its jingle. Back in the 1980s, when the Karansa Festival started, there were no official dance steps.
So what happened yesterday is so fun, though it is so traffic, but yet there are things that make us happy. Just like the street dancing, the Karansa festival contingent will perform a street dance in some parts of Danao City. While they are performing their street dance, there's also a judge; in their dance, it must have props. Even though they feel so tired, they beed to dance all along until they got back to the place. The street dance started at 1pm, and I don't know what time it ends because we went to our uncle's house to eat.
And after the street dance, the performers need to go to the Oval (where they should dance) to perform their whole performance, and I don't know the time when it started because I was talking to my friends and didn't check the time. And it is so crowded it has so many people there we don't have any seats there.
And while we're watching, there is a guest, an Filipino artist. I didn't remember his name because I'm not his fan, but I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's Paul Salas. He is so handsome in person and has a really nice voice.
And while watching the performance, the performers are so very nice dancing their performance. Even though there are some mistakes that they made, at least they did their best to perform, even though they are really tired. And after the whole performance, there is an announcement of the winner, and the speaker made a mistake about the announcement: the real winner is number 4, but he said the winner is contingent number 3. And they apologize just like the winning of Miss Universe 2019, even though the Philippines is the winner. The host made the mistake that it was Colombia, but at least the performers accepted that they were not the winners.
And after the whole performance, there is a fireworks display; it will appear after the whole performance or the whole program. There is also a countdown, and yes, it is so very nice. I only took a screenshot of my video because the video is so long, which is why I only post some of it.
Karansa Festival is so very nice, and that is the whole people in my city waiting every year.