Dancing With The Cars: Meet Mr. Rene, Traffic Enforcer and Street Dancer

        (Street dancers at the Kadalag-an Festival)

The other day, I watched the 12 groups of barangay dancers that competed at the 2019 Kadalag-an Festival of Victorias City in the Philippines.

With their colorful costumes, make-up, and choreography set to upbeat music, they charmed and entertained the crowds lining up along the city's main streets. That night, the best costumed and choreographed street-dance performances went 
home with the top prizes.

(Graceful dancers in colorful costumes 

at the street dance competition.)

Strangely, a few days later and on the same street, a highway, actually, I chanced upon the most entertaining street-dance performance I have ever seen. This performance was unrehearsed and the performer was not even wearing any colorful costume unlike the dancers at the competition. 

As I was watching him dance, I told myself that if there's 'Dancing With The Stars' on television, in our highway, there's 'Dancing With The Cars'. I had to take his video!😛

The performer is Mr. Rene Abellano, an amiable traffic enforcer for 15 years. His traffic-enforcing-shift-slash-dance-routine was simultaneous with the dance number of a group of city employees performing at the plaza. The employees' music, blasting all over, provided something for Mr. Abellano to dance to.

And under the warm noontime sun, he gave the motorists, pedestrians, and me something to watch and enjoy! Carefully, the drivers of the passing vehicles, especially those big dump trucks and trucks carrying tons of sugarcane, kept their eyes on the road and not on his dance moves!😆

(Mr. Rene and his audience)

While he was giving out hand signals to the drivers of tricycles, transport buses, private cars, and trucks, his turns, side steps, and footwork were all synchronized with the beat of the music of Psy, Momoland, and other artists. Not only does he have traffic gestures, but he's also got rhythm!🙌

                (Traffic enforcer and street dancer)

After his performance, I had to run after him as he was making his way to another intersection. I showed him the video and told him that what he did was the real public service. He was not only effectively guiding the traffic but also providing light entertainment! Sorry to the winners of the street dance competition, but Mr. Rene is the best street dancer there is!

I'm not sure when I'd stumble again into's Mr. Rene's performance. But with traffic or no traffic, with music or no music, he is definitely the best street dancer this side of the globe. Or lane.😎

In the meantime, here's his performance: