This was an inter-schools dance competition that featured some brilliant dance routines and talent. This gallery features a handful of images taken before the main competition comprising some dancing by an assortment of people and the contestants of the Miss Gay Iligan 2011 pageant.

The main Dance event images are under two other galleries here for Students and Teachers.

ENJOY!

Peter :-)

PS - The natural lighting quality in this venue is very poor and the stage lighting is also not very good at all :-( I do not like flash photography at such events as it creates an artificial image of what was actually seen and it is also distracting to both performers and the audience. As a result, a handfull of images are "grainy" because I was attempting to take photographs on a part of the stage that was poorly illuminated. However, I have uploaded all the images I captured, even ones I am not particularly happy with, because the dancers featured in them may still enjoy seeing them and that is more important that my photographic ego! But best advice, when being photographed here, is to head for stage centre where all the light is. In front, behind, to the left or to the right of stage centre and you will be in the shadows :-( The lighting guy was as helful as possible and he did turn the illumination up half way through the competition after I mentioned to him that it was rather dark - Filipino people are SO helpful :-)

MY ADVICE TO THE VENUE is to install roof mounted lights in front of the stage and the full width of the stage to properly illuminate all of the stage when viewed from the front.

Events like these are a "moment in time" that, once gone, is gone forever only to be stored in our fading memories. Good illumination will allow a full and proper photographic and/or video recording of events that can be handed down to subsequent generations and never forgotton :-)