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  2. Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Leyte Kalipayan Dance Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, the group became an independent entity from the Holy Infant College and was reorganized. In 1977, the group received its present name upon the creation of the Leyte Kalipayan Cultural Foundation, which to this day still manages the activities of the dance troupe. The word kalipayan comes from the Waray-Waray language and means happiness.

  4. Dance in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Tinikling - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 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

  7. Aliwan Fiesta - Wikipedia

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    Aliwan Fiesta is an annual event that gathers different cultural festivals of the Philippines in Star City Complex in Pasay wherein contingents compete in dance parade and float competitions. Organized by MBC Media Group together with Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the cities of Manila and Pasay, the event is dubbed as "the ...

  8. Ballet Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Ballet Philippines (BP) is a ballet company in the Philippines founded in 1969 by Alice Reyes with the support of Eddie Elejar and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Proficient in both ballet and modern dance, [1] the company synthesizes diverse dance [2] and movement forms into distinctively Filipino contemporary expressions.

  9. Pandanggo - Wikipedia

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    Pandanggo is a Philippine folk dance which has become popular in the rural areas of the Philippines. The dance evolved from Fandango, a Spanish folk dance, which arrived in the Philippines during the Hispanic period. The dance is accompanied by castanets. [1] This dance, together with the Jota, became popular among the illustrados or the upper ...