April 30th Celebration continuing pictures and comments

This is the 900 member choir that sang for the jubiliee on May 29th. Awesome choir.

Modern Dance member who works in our office, Darlene Caporal

Warrior Dance

One of the Saturday Choir Members

Primary boy singer

Primary Duck Dance - Girl in the middle was a real eye catcher as she knew her stuff

Primary did a duck dance.

Modern dance performance dressed in white and pearls for their hair. Just beautiful

Ballroom dance performers

A few of the 300 Primary Singers

The finale to the ballroom and modern dance performance

April 30th Celebration continuing pictures and comments

 Masquerade finale

 Spanish flavor of their history. Beautiful black and white dresses with the guys in barongs made of pineapple fibre over black shirts

 Dance in motion.

Beautiful dancers

Bird Dance in motion.  This was a real fun dance to see

Bird dance in motion.

Bird Dance Finale

Masquerade Dance

Muslim scarf dance

Harvest Dance

Action dance....really fun

Dancers that portrayed a bird

Bird Dancers with a black light that illuminated their costumes

Masquerade Dance, very colorful and action packed



April 30th Cultural Celebration continuing pictures and comments

She actually posed for us

Very colorful dances

 More action dancing

 Coconut dancers. The wear the coconut shells and then dance in line and hit the shells in front of them and on their chests and legs.

 Coconut Dance

Dance with scarves for the guys.  They turned these tubular scarves into belts and then to hats. Remarkable

This dance has to do with Rice Harvesting

Rice Harvesting Dance

Scarves and Fans dance with partners

April 30th Cultural Celebration pictures and comments

 Bench Dancers in motion.  They dance and then hop to floor and then to the bench

 The dancers hop on the double benches.  Its quite a show.

 Bamboo dancers partner style

Bamboo dancers

 Young Filipine couple that just got married are singers in the 900 member Jubiliee Choir

 This young beauty takes her part very seriously

Bowl dancers 

 Bowl Dancers exiting the floor.  Their costumes are exquisite

 Candle dancers - you can't see it from the picture but the girls have a small wire holder on their heads to hold the candles. You can only see if if you are up close.

The candle dance with colorful costumes

Jubilee April 30th with Cultural Celebration

 A Few choir members with our own Alex Villalon in the background

Alex Villalon, is one of our Security officers and he also participated in the Choir.  He helped Ryan Apduhan organize the security for both the cultural celebration and the Sunday 50th Celebration conference.

Beautiful Filipine MC's for the cultural show.

Filipine MC's, notice the adult choir in the background

Princesses dance on the bamboo with attendants

 Princess dances through the bamboo with her attendant

Princess dance stepping through the bamboo

Princess dance finale

Dramatic cultural Princess dance with bamboo and attendant with umbrella

Youth Princess bamboo dancer poses with her nails

Ryan Apduhan, our Security officer and receptionist is part of the security team for the Jubiliee and Elder and Me

On the 30th of April there was a huge cultural celebration with beautiful costumes and dances that pertain to the Philippines through their history.  It was beautiful and approximately 4,000 dancer performers.  300 Primary singers and 900 adult choir singers.  This was held in the Araneta Center in Manila.  We were in charge of the Security within the Araneta Center which is a sports and entertainment center which holds 18,000 people.  Our Security Staff leaders, Ryan Apduhan and Alexander Villalon did an outstanding job of organizing a volunteer security and medical staff.  We are so proud of them.  They did an amazing job.  The pictures are posted.  Those of you who follow please post a comment.  The pictures were taken by Elder Burningham