I will be on vacation in America until the middle of May, so this will be the last minority report until that time. When this picture first ran, I said in part:
“This boy, this dancer, seems to be celebrating something, jumping for joy. He was a part of a dance festival here in Dumaguete Filipinos are not known for their brute strength. But they are natural dancers, gymnasts and boxers- in fact they excel at any physical activity that requires agility and grace.
Anywhere you go in Dumaguete, you see people dancing. Every parade has street dancers, every pageant has dance numbers. Even the poorest remote barangay has it’s own dance company. You can see them practicing every weekend on their dusty basketball courts as you drive by.
With what seems to be an almost universal native talent here for the arts of movement, you would think that the Philippines would be known throughout the world for excellence in dance and gymnastics, but it isn’t.
But even unknown and unrecognized, the boys and girls in the barangays will keep on dancing.”
This seems to be a positive and exuberant way to say goodbye to this space for a few weeks.
