Dinagyang 2008 Tribe Performance Videos

Dinagyang 2008 Champion - Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz National High School)



Dinagyang 2008 1st Runner-up - Tribu Ilonganon (Jalandoni National High School)



Dinagyang 2008 2nd Runner-up - Tribu Taga-Jaro (Jaro National High School)



Dinagyang 2008 3rd Runner-up - Tribu Silak (Iloilo City National High School)



Dinagyang 2008 4th Runner-up - Tribu Atub-atub

Dinagyang 2008 Winners

Iloilo Dinagyang 2008 Competition Final and Official Results:

Ati Competition:

Major Awards:

Champion: Tribu Paghidaet (Lapaz NHS)
1st Runner-Up: Tribu Ilonganon (Jalandoni NHS)
2nd Runner-Up: Tribu Ang Taga-Jaro (Jaro NHS)
3rd Runner-Up: Tribu Silak (Iloilo City NHS)
4th Runner-Up: Tribu Atub-Atub

Special Awards:

Best in Discipline: Tribu San Pedro (Fort San Pedro NHS)
Best in Street Dancing: Tribu Ilonganon
Best in Costume: Tribu Paghidaet
Best in Music: Tribu Ilonganon
Best in Choreography: Tribu Paghidaet
Best Choreographer: Tribu Paghidaet Choreographer

Kasadyahan Competition:

Major Awards:

Champion: Tribu Sa-ad (Leganes)
1st Runner-Up: Tribu Kasag (Banate)
2nd Runner-Up: Tribu Tinu-om (Cabatuan)
3rd Runner-Up: Tribu Bayluhay (San Joaquin)
4th Runner-Up: Tribu Mandurriaonon (Mandurriao)

Special Awards:

Best in Street Dance: Tribu Sa-ad
Best in Choreography: Tribu Kasag
Best in Production Design: Tribu Sa-ad
Best in Demonstration: Tribu Kasag
Best in Theme: Tribu Sa-ad

Fireworks Competition

Among the total of 16 shooters, the following emerged as winners:

First Place: Shooter # 16 (Dumaguete)
Second Place: shooter #8 (Bulacan)
Third Place: Scorpion Fireworks (Iloilo)

Drum and Lyre Competition
Elementary Level

First Place: Rizal Elementary School
Second Place:Guimbal Central elemntary School
Third Place: Tribu Kalubihan

Secondary Level
First Place: Iloilo city National High School
Second Place: Fort San Pedro National High School

About Iloilo Dinagyang Festival

The Dinagyang is the biggest and most colorful religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines. Dinagyang had its humble beginnings in the devotion to the Señor Santo Niño that began to take root in the hearts of Ilonggos some 40 years ago. Rev. Fr. Ambrosio Galindez started to introduce the devotion to Santo Niño in November 1967.

The Dinagyang is held on the fourth Sunday of January, or right after the Sinulog In Cebu and the Ati-Atihan in Aklan.

In 1968, a replica of the original image of the Santo Niño de Cebu was brought to Iloilo by Fr. Sulpicio Enderez. He intended that image to be given as a gift to the Parish of San Jose through Father Galindez. It was no ordinary arrival in Iloilo, for the faithful, led by members of Confradia del Santo Niño de Cebu, Iloilo Chapter, worked to give the image a fitting reception starting at the Iloilo Airport, down the streets of Iloilo, where they paraded it.

The observance of the feast since the arrival of the image was characterized with merry-making confined only within the parochial level. The Confradia patterened the features of the Ati-atihan similar to Ibajay, Aklan, where natives dance on the streets, their bodies covered with soot and ashes. It was not an imitation in its entirety of rituals, but an imitation done in the spirit of devotion to the Child Jesus.

It was the tribal groups first paid homage and was in this prototype of devotion that the present festival takes its form, contextualized only in Ilonggo culture.

In 1977, that simple, humble devotion had found its way into the mainstream culture, which, again Fr. Margallo called a "blending of purpose". It was the year, the national government mandated the regions to come up with festivals or celebrations that can boost the spirit of tourism and development into one. The city of Iloilo readily identified the Iloilo Ati-atihan as its tourism potential project, which came on time just as the local parish proponent could hardly handle the growing challenges of the expanding upsurge of devotion.

The blending of purpose is captured in the magnetic word Dinagyang, the symbol of devotion in dynamic motion, in making Iloilo today, "the only one", evolving its own story of faith and culture in perfect timing.

Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for 2007.

The Dinagyang is divided into three Major events: Ati-Ati Street Dancing, Kasadyahan Street Dancing and Miss Dinagyang.

Source: www.dinagyangfoundation.com / en.wikipedia.org