Karansa Festival

Karansa is a Cebuano word for dancing out of plain happiness, and Danao City built its fiesta around it. The steps are named for what they are — kiay for the hips, kembot for the waist, kurahay for the arms thrown up — and the contingents string them together into something closer to a celebration than a competition.

It runs with the feast of Santo Tomás de Villanueva, the city's patron, so the dancing sits alongside a fiesta mass, a street procession and several days of the town being fed by whoever lives on that street.