SINUG SA CASA GORORDO: A WELL-KEPT TRADITION
To be performed at Casa Gorordo and Mactan-Cebu International Airport
The time-honored house tradition of Casa Gorordo Museum, Sinug sa Casa Gorordo, will again be performed at the museum garden on Monday, January 22, 2024, an event designed for public appreciation.
The dance ritual was also presented for the benefit of arriving and departing passengers at a special performance at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2 arrival area at 10 am on Thursday, January 18, 2024.
The Mabolo Dance Troupe choreographed by Richelieu Colina performs the Sinug sa Casa Gorordo. Many members of the group learned the dance from the descendants of Estelita “Titang” Diola, known to have kept the original sinulog beat way into her old age.
Diola performed the sinug at Casa Gorordo since she was three. She continued to present the yearly offering even after the property was acquired by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) and turned into a museum.
Now institutionalized as a Cebu tradition honoring the Holy Child Seรฑor Sto. Niรฑo, the ritual dance is a sequence based on the original “two-steps-forward-one-step-backward” or ‘kinampilan’ inspired by the ‘sulug’, the sea or river current. It has been performed on the Monday following the annual Fiesta Seรฑor since the Gorordo family occupied the house in the Parian district.
RAFI carried the practice through to the present time together with other beloved house traditions as a means of preserving Cebuano culture and heritage.
The sinug depicts the spiritual offering to the Sto. Niรฑo by the Spaniards and natives at the time of the latter’s arrival in Cebu in 1521. The Christianization of Cebu began at this time, with about 800 natives being baptized into the faith, including the chieftain, Rajah Humabon, and his wife Humamay.
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