Maiquez, Reagan Romero (2016) Examining Flow through Auto-ethnography and Performance Studies: The Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Philippines. AKDA: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance, 1 (1).
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The Sinulog Festival is a fiesta that happens annually in the city and island-province of Cebu, Philippines every December-January. It is a massive pilgrimage to the Santo Niño or the religious image of Christ figured as a child king and a tourist event full of dancing and festive performances. In this essay, I examine a small portion of this festival or the parade to interpret flow. The concept of flow in academic terms is fluid and multifaceted, having been construed in a number of ways in the social sciences and the humanities. Various studies have also cited flow as an explanation of mobility between transnational places. In this paper, I examine and locate flow not through global and transnational perspectives but within a localized and micro-perspective of performance studies and auto-ethnography. I suggest that flow in the Sinulog parade is an engaged participation and witnessing of people emplaced and performing in this event. This form of engaged participation and witnessing reveals a complex sociality by a performing public during a sacred and festive event within Cebu, Philippines.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cultural performance criticism, Cebu, Sinulog, cultural performance |
| Depositing User: | Machine Whisperer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2017 05:32 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2017 05:32 |
| URI: | http://philippineperformance-repository.upd.edu.ph/id/eprint/2128 |
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