ZSNHS
contingent bags 2016 street dance tilt
By Gideon C. Corgue
PAGADIAN
CITY, Jan. 18 (PIA) – The Zamboanga del Sur National High School (ZSNHS) main
campus on Sunday won the grand prize award for the 2016 street dance
competitions, having wowed thousand of spectators with their electrifying dance performance.
Wearing chicken masks and colorful costumes, the
ZSNHS dancers handily got the nod of the judges besting other seven contingents
in a six-hour street dance competitions that capped the annual “Pasalamat
Festival.”
In the ritual showdown category, the ZSNHS
contingent took home the grand prize award of P200 thousand while the Pagadian
City National Comprehensive High School (PCNCHS) was adjudged 1st
runner-up and received P100 thousand; and Napolan National High School (NNHS)
emerged as 2nd runner up and received P75 thousand.
In the street dance category, the ZSNHS also emerged
as the grand prize winner and took home P100 thousand followed by PCNCHS as 1st
runner-up P75 thousand prize, and Napolan National High School (NNHS) as 2nd
runner up with P50 thousand prize.
The winners also received trophies and plaques of
appreciation in both categories.
Before the final results were announced by the
chairpersons of the Pasalamat Festival and street dance competition, a showdown
of the queen festival were performed by eight festival queens to the delight of
the audience.
City
Schools Division Superintendent Marcom F. Borongan, one of the judges for the
street dance competitions, announced the result of the 2016 Festival Queen with
the following winners: ZSNHS-main campus – 1st prize, PCNHS-2nd
prize, and Manga National High School- 3rd prize with cash prizes of
P5 thousand, P3 thousand and P2 thousand, respectively.
Senatorial
candidate and former Justice secretary Leila M. De Lima was the event’s keynote
speaker who personally handed the prizes to the winners.
The city government
appropriated more than a million pesos for the costumes of the dancers.
