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Singkil is an ethnic dance of the Philippines that has its origins in the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, a Mindanao Muslim ethnolinguistic group. The dance is widely recognized today as the royal dance of a prince and a princess weaving in and out of crisscrossed bamboo poles clapped in syncopated rhythm. While the man manipulates a sword and ...
Tahing Baila is a Yakan dance, a low land tribal Philippine folk dance, in which it tries to imitate movements of fish. [2] Pangsak Basilan Yakan From the highlands of Mindanao, is a Musim ethnic group called the Yakan. They are known to wear body-hugging elaborately woven costumes.
Tinikling is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated prior to Spanish colonialism in the area. [ 1] The dance involves at least two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance.
The Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group (ROFG) was founded in 1972, and started out as a fledgling folk dance company composed of some thirty performers. Leaning on the vast amount of data and artifacts that he has accumulated while doing research over the years, Ramon Obusan thought of starting a dance company that would mirror the traditional culture of the Philippines through dance and music.
In 1956, the Bayanihan Folk Dance Group was established by Dr. Helena Z. Benitez in the Philippine Women's University. It was formally established in 1957 as the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. In the same year, the company worked alongside the Bayanihan Folk Arts Center in researching and preserving indigenous Philippine art forms in music ...
The street dancers performs at South Road Properties. The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival (as known as Sinug and Sulog) is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu, with the center of the activities being in Cebu City, and is the centre of the Santo Niño Christian celebrations in the Philippines. [ 1]
Dinagyang. The Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines, held annually on the fourth Sunday of January in honor of Santo Niño, the Holy Child. It is one of the largest festivals in the Philippines, drawing hundreds of thousands to over a million visitors every year. [1] [2]
significant role in the society‟s "cultural development" (Collinson, 1973, Best, 1982; Koutsouba, 2003; Lykesas et al., 2006, 2010b). This way of learning dance and transmitting traditional cultural knowledge and experiences through dance, is characterized as “the First Existence" of dance (Hoerburger, 1965, 1968, Damianakos, 1984, Bratopoulou