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Parangal 32nd Annual SF Ethnic Dance Festival
Thank you to all our supporters, friends, and families who watched us perform in the 32nd Annual SF Ethnic Dance Festival June 5-6, 2010

SF Chronicle's dance critic, Allan Ulrich says
Among the discoveries was the Parangal Dance Company's fervent facsimile of a religious ritual from the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao. Erik Espartinez Solano's choreography begins with an introspective women's candle ceremony, which yields to a more boisterous section for men with banners. Sheaves of grain reinforce the piece's function as a fertility rite.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/08/DDD21DQTEP.DTL#ixzz0qKpPa0Lc

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