BACOLOD City – MassKara Festival performers were the “crowd favorite” in the ongoing Andong Mask Dance Festival 2018 in Andong City, South Korea.
Ten MassKara dancers flew to South Korea to perform at the opening program of the festival last Friday.
The MassKara delegation was led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Councilor Em Ang, chairwoman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on tourism.
The festival began on Sept. 28 and will end Oct. 7.
During the opening ceremony, MassKara dancers “got the loudest applause and the audience crowded to snap photos with them onstage,” said Ang.
The dancers from Bacolod were the “most-photographed” among the various international performing groups, she added.
Other performers were from Latvia, Russia, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan.
The International Mask Arts and Culture Organization spearheaded the event, which gathered representatives of mask-based festivals from across the world.
Andong City is a sister city of Bacolod since 2008./PN
