DANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Dances in the Philippines can be categorized in many ways. They can be classified according to
their nature. Geographical location can be one. For instance, dance that is local to a particular
place, one that has no other form variations of this dance- can be classified as local or regional
dance. Whereas, dances that have different versions in the different places in the Philippines is
called national dances.

Western Visayans folk dancing runs the gamut from worship dances to courtship and wedding
dances.  A distinctive type is the wide assortment of mimetic dances in which movements try to
mimic, for example, the flight of birds, the catching of fish, the making of wine, and other aspects
of Visayans life.

Binanog is an indigenous dance from the Philippines that features the movement of an eagle/hawk
to the symbolic beating of bamboo and gong that synchronizes the pulsating movements of the feet
and the hands of the lead and follow dancers. This specific type of Binanog dance comes from the
Panay-Bukidnon indigenous community in Panay Island, Western Visayas, Philippines.The Panay
Bukidnon, also known as Suludnon, Tumandok or Panayanon Sulud is usually the identified
indigenous group associated with the region and whose territory cover the mountains connecting
the provinces of Iloilo, Capiz and Aklan in the island of Panay, one of the main Visayan islands of
the Philippines.

Kuratsa

HISTORY:

The Kuratsa is actually remarkably popular with this Visayan man and women specially this Waray
man and women of the Western Visayas region in the Philippines and illustrates every critical
special occasion inside Western Visayas residential areas.

The Kuratsa maybe the dancing of courtship from the Visayas region of the Philippines. At
marriage ceremony and fiestas, this Kuratsa serves for the reason that standard income dancing
whereby visitors carry turns pinning income on the woman and groom’s clothes. That stands for
friends’ and families’ wants once and for all chance and affluence inside couple’s future.

The dancing is completed with several pieces, using several distinct tempos. The dance several
begin this efficiency having a ballroom waltz. The actions resemble the mild waltz style. Kuratsa is
normally done during festivals with Bohol as well as other Visayan areas, this dancing symbolizes a
fun couple’s make an effort to get each and every other’s awareness.

Then the songs adjustments to your faster defeat with the “chasing” picture, that the woman
dancer flees and also the guy pursues the woman’s all across this dancing floorboards. The pace
accumulates even more with the final aspect, that they run after coming to an end having a
flabbergasted flirtatious picture. The female features received above, and also the guy imitates the
showy chook in a very mating dancing.

Firmly talking, only one several dancing it at the same time. Thought to be the Philippine
importance (supposedly through La Cucaracha dancing usual of the Monterrey region of Mexico) –
this Kuratsa is actually even so, differences in the way of setup compared to a Philippine opposite
number. Even this “basic” Kuratsa songs just isn’t depending on Philippine as well as The Spanish
language tunes.