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Many homecoming celebrations include a parade. Students often select the grand marshal based on a history of service and support to the school and community. The parade includes the school's marching band and different school organizations’ floats created by the classes and organizations and most of the sports get a chance to be in the parade.
The parade float of Panagbenga Festival of Baguio was decorated with local flowers and handicrafts. Seated on top is the city's Reyna ng Aliwan 2008 contestant. Aliwan Fiesta is divided into three categories: Cultural Street Dance Competition (the main event), Float Parade, and Reyna ng Aliwan (Queen of
The Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural festival held annually on the fourth Sunday of January in Iloilo City, Philippines, in honor of Santo Niño, the Holy Child, and to commemorate the historic pact between the Malay settlers and the indigenous Ati people of Panay.
It is a great parade of floats, headed by the Carnival queen and followed by folkloric groups, disguises, cumbia groups and other dancing groups, winners of the last carnival's competitions. It is the local version of Pasadena's Rose Parade in the United States.
Winners of the MassKara Queen pageant in 2005. The festival features a street dance competition where various groups of street dancers (with contingents representing different schools and barangays) parade through the streets before performing on a stage.
Every year, at the end of her Scottish summer holiday at Balmoral, Queen Elizabeth hosts a ball. The tradition dates back to Queen Victoria.
Incorporated into every aspect of the Rio Carnival are dancing and music. The most famous dance in brazilian carnival is samba. The samba remains a popular dance not only in carnival but in the ghettos outside of the main cities. These villages keep alive the historical aspect of the dance without the influence of the western cultures. [21]
Devla Imperatrix- Queen Of Carnaval in Rio De Janeiro Sapucai. In the late 18th century, the "cordões" (literally "cords", laces or strings in Portuguese) combined with the "dança do coco" (literally "coconut dance" an Afro-Brazilian dance troupe form) were introduced in Rio de Janeiro. These were pageant groups that paraded through city ...