CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews /17 September) — The epic play on a pre-colonial seafaring people caps the first day of the September 18-19 Butuan Balangay International Conference. It was first staged in Davao City in 1987 under the directorial genius of Nestor Horfilla of the evolving Mindanao Community Theatre Network (MCTN). The chorus line doing the Kambayoka Theatre Form in transitioning a scene. The KTF likewise, through the directorial guidance of Thalassa Torres Alaba, herself a Sining Kambayoka mainstay in the 1980s, cuts and connects scenes, oftentimes punctuated by well-choreographed fight movements. (Merpu Roa / MindaNews)