KARANSA FESTIVAL

"Tara Na Mag Karansa NA TA!!!!!"

 

Karansa is a merry-making performed by local Danawanons whenever they group together durimg their idle times, especially after dinner. This is usually done by the barangay folks of Barangay Suba, one of the barangays in Danao City, who love music and dancing.

One time, a group of Danawanons mentioned of the Sinulog of Cebu, the Ati-atihan of Aklan, the Dinagyang of Iloilo, the Maskara of Bacolod, the Pintados of Tacloban and other ancestral and ritual dances and they decided to have their own way of street dancing which they named Karansa, a dance expressing one's joy and happiness performed in any body movement whenever someone feels the urge to dance whatever music there may be for as long as the steps jive with the rhythm of the music.

During the incumbency of Mayor Ramon D. Durano Jr., the Karansa was first performed as a street dancing and merry-making during the Danao City Fiesta Celebration. It has captured so much of the attention of the local Danawanons as well as the visitors so that it was then practiced anually as a tourist attraction.

In 1997, the Karansa Foundation was established with Mr. Jesus C. Mecca as the first elected President for the Karansa Foundation to have a legal personality and in order to have the support of the City government, the City Council of Danao enacted an ordinance declaring Karansa as one of the tourist attractions of Danao City. On October 06, 1998, the Karansa Foundation became an incorporation after having been registered with Securities and Exchange Commission.

As the official street dancing and merry-making of Danao, such as the Sinulog of Cebu, Karansa has no official beat yet as of the moment, however, the Foundation is in its search for the purpose.

Karansa is a dance festival that shows the joy and happiness through performing the four basic dance steps, the kikay, karag, kurug and kurahay.

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