Pilgrimage as Utopian performative for a post-colonial counterpublic

• Main Author: Llana, Jazmin Badong
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Religious drama—Philippines—Bicol Peninsula—Presentation, etc.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages—Philippines—Bicol Peninsula; Arts and Humanities; Performance Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7869
• Institution: De La Salle University

Bigaa, Legazpi City, Albay, the cobacho dotoc is performed with a komedya enacting the search for the Holy Cross by Helena and Constantine. Nicanor Tiongson describes the komedya as ‘a play in verse [that] has conventions of stylized verse delivery, marching for entrances and exits, choreographed fi...