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BACOLOD CITY ? The 30th MassKara Festival?four days of street dancing competitions?kicked off on Thursday with 11 contingents joining the schools category at the Bacolod public plaza.
The competition was held in cooperation with the Department of Education in Bacolod City.
The barangay category will be at 2 p.m. today and the open category on Sunday. The Electric MassKara street dance, which has been transformed into a Ledge Dancing competition, on the other hand, will take center stage at 8 p.m. Friday at the Lacson Tourism Strip.
?To mark the third decade of the festival with the theme, '30 Years of Smiles,' we hope to highlight the elements that have made it a very popular festival: happiness, cheerfulness and optimism as captured in our smiling masks, faces and costumes in bright and bold colors,? festival director Eli Tajanlangit said on Wednesday.
The schools, barangay and open category contests will have Libertad-Araneta streets as starting point for the dancers, who will pass through the Araneta parade route up to the public plaza.
The two areas of competition will be the street dance and arena performance. The judges will be stationed along the parade routes.
Each contingent will have a minimum of 35 dancers and a maximum of 60. inquirer
