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Folk Dance in MINDANAO Dugso The dance must have originated from Bukidnon, northeastern Mindanao since they are performed as an entertainment for the deities in fiestas organized for  them.It  was originally thought that this dance was performed only during harvest time or upon the birth of a male heir. Women would wear colorful feathered head dresses, plaid costumes and anklets. They would step rhythmically around a bamboo arch decorated with newly-gathered palay (rice stalks) and corn, and their movements are emphasized by the tinkling sounds from the anklets. Itik-itik The dance originated from Surigao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines. According to the story, a young woman named Kanang (short for Cayetana) was the best dancer in that province. At one baptismal celebration, she introduced new steps which were improvisations of the dance Sibay. She imitated the movements of the ducks or itik. Because of its unusual steps and fascinating interpreta...

Folk Dance in VISAYAS Kuratsa This is a dance that originated from Bohol, Visayas but it is also popular at Ilokano festivals. This dance commands a sense of improvisation which mimics a young playful couple’s attempt to get each other’s attention. It is performed in a moderate waltz style. Tinikling Tinikling is a Filipino folk dance. The dance originated in Leyte as an imitation of the legendarily fast and graceful movements of the tikling birds as they dodged bamboo traps set by rice farmers. An alternative explanation says that the dance originated from Spanish colonization, where field workers who worked too slowly were punished by having to stand in place and jump over two bamboo poles clapped together against their ankles; it is said that from a distance the jumping workers looked like tikling birds.[1] Often, this dance is mistakenly coined as the national dance of the Philippines instead of the Cariñosa. The dance consists of at least one team of ...

Folk Dance in LUZON Abaruray "Abaruray" is a contraction of the words "Aba" and "Ruray". "Aba!" is an exclamation which is equivalent to "Hey!", "Hi!", or "Hail!" in English. "Ruray" is a nickname for Aurora. This dance is known in the Philippines be several names, such as "Hapayan", "Tagayan", "Pandango sa Baso", and "Abaroray". In any social gathering in the remote "barrios" of the Philippines, it is customary to offer wine to the visitors. The offering is usually made by a young lady. She goes around with a glass and a bottle of native wine offering a drink to the visitors. This wine offering is a signal for the beginning of folk dancing and singing. The musicians play the introduction of "Abaruray" music. The girl who is offering the wine picks out a young man from among the guests and offers him a drink. This is her way ...

Philippine Folk Dance History By  Benna Crawford BA Theater Folkloric dance is the history of the people in movement. In some cultures, pale fragments of it survive centuries of invasions and diasporas. In the Philippines, folk dance is a   strong and enduring indigenous expression . Pre-Colonial Before the recorded history of the Philippines, before the Spanish conquistadors conquered and Christianized the populace, from the earliest occupation of this volcanic archipelago, the people danced. They danced to appease the gods, to curry favor from powerful spirits, to celebrate a hunt or harvest, to mimic the exotic life forms around them. They danced their stories and their shamanic rituals, their rites of passage and their remembered legends and history. Rural dances include such favorites as the high-stepping  Tinikling , which mimics a bird, and the  Gaway-Gaway , which features the movements of children pulling the stalks of the  gaway ...

History of Folk Dance By  Rachel Hanson Choreographer The history of folk dance dates back several centuries, though very little detail is known about its origins. While nobody is really sure what folk dancing looked like two thousand years ago, historians are confident that it already existed at that time. Because folk dances are highly traditional and are taught through the generations, the evolution of the genre has been slow as various cultural groups preserve their inventories of  cultural dances .   Origins of Folk Dancing Cultural dances came into being with a social function, weaving recreation into celebrations and important agricultural events. While many groups perform folk dances onstage today, the genesis of folk dancing right up through the middle of the 20th century was non-performative for the most part. Although exotic dancing became popular in Europe during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the artists who performed folk dance...