Visit Bohol Theme: A Hit at Sandugo Streetdance

(PIA-7/Bohol) — Picking the theme of Visit Philippines and Visit Bohol 2015 worked for the street dancing contingents of Bohol Island State University (BISU) and Tagbilaran City Sandugo as it helped propel them to land a place in the Top 9 contenders in Bohol’s biggest festival dancing.

Both dancing contingents developed storylines that involved tourists venturing out to Bohol scenic spots.

BISU and Tagbilaran City complemented their performances with a strong showing of costumes and props in neat choreographed succession, each showing Bohol’s wealth of wonders which earned the judges’ nods.

With a good storyline such as Visit Bohol 2015 in time for the homecoming of Boholanos around the globe, putting up a show with tourists and awesome Bohol guarantees contingents a soft spot to work on the over-all choreography and fine-tune their performance.

BISU won the championship trophy and P300K cash while Tagbilaran City came up First Runner up with P250K and a trophy.

The contest, which judges choreography, story content, formation, appropriateness of steps and message clarity a good 30% in its criteria, earns a good edge for a group if it works around a core theme.

This year too, following years of Sandugo dancing on steps borrowed from the mardi gras, organizers demanded a workshop for Bohol choreographers to finally extract and show the distinctly Boholano in the dance, explained Marianito Luspo, while reading the criteria.

Other than that, the Sandugo dance showdown judges meticulously evaluated their performance on unison, the fitting steps, formations and fluidity of transitions, along with the display of emotions from the dances.

As for musicality, all contingents have shown attempts to blend in the Boholano, Visayan music and rhythms into their presentations.

As the musical instruments were not entirely local, some of the beats were, but musicality was only 15% in the criteria. (rmn/rac/PIA-7/Bohol)