Beauty queen to dance in Sinulog grand finale

Aside from the Sinulog Grand Parade competition, organizers also promise a grand finale with Ms Tourism International 2013 winner Razini Alexis Gomez performing with about 500 dancers in the finale at the Cebu City Sports Center on Sunday.

The grand finale will carry the theme of Cebu City’s 75th Charter Day celebration on Feb. 24.

The grand finale worth P2.5 million will feature the different eras of Cebu City that will start from the 1930s to present. It will also feature the important celebrations during these eras through music and dances in a travelogue, said Ricky Ballesteros, Sinulog Foundation Inc. executive director.

Calungsod

The Modern Cebu City era will highlight the canonization of San Pedro Calungsod, the first Cebu saint, and the holding of the thanksgiving Mass at the South Road Properties on Nov. 30, 2012.

“We will also be having elements of surprise,” said Ballesteros.

The Cebu City Sports Center grandstand stage will be on a monocromatic green during the daytime Sinulog dance competition. The 14 meter by 44 meter stage will be converted to give life to the different eras of Cebu City during the grand finale.

A large diamond and the image of the Sto. Nino will be placed in the middle of the stage.

Pyromusical

Ballesteros said that their use of sensurround speakers and play of lights on the Sinulog stage would surely add color to the presentation which would be capped by a 7 to 10 minute pyromusical. The Sinulog’s first pyromusical will cost P300,000.

He said there would be a fewer number of participants in the grand parade this year because some of the out-of-town contingents begged off after their provinces were affected by typhoons and earthquakes last year.

There are only two out-of-town contingents for the Sinulog-based Category –Tangub City’s Sinanduloy Cultural Troupe, and Placer, Masbate’s Kulturang Placereño with the Masbate Dance Company.

six contingents

There are six contingents, however, for the free interpretation category namely the Kalivungan Festival of North Cotabato, Land of beauty and bounty of Lanao del Norte, Tribu LIngganay of Alang-alang Leyte, Pasaka Festival of Tanauan, Leyte, Tribu Sibugaynon of Zamboanga Sibugay and Tribu Himag-ulaw of Placer Masbate./Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac and Correspondent Christine Emily I. Pantaleon