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Ninanog
Manmanok
__________ or pigeon dance is an imitation of flight of pigeons from hunters stalking them.
Sayaw tu Baud
This dance illustrate the languid grace of a tribe otherwise known as fierce warriors.
Banga
Long known as a dance to celebrate the arrival of successful headhunters, the Bendayan has
taken a new face.
Bendayan
The dance imitates birds flying in the air. Music is provided by gangsa, or gongs, which are
usually in a group of six or more.
Lumagen or Tachok
This dance portrays the walk of the industrious Kalingga women, carrying water pots on
their heads and wearing the colorful hand-woven "blankets of life" around their necks.
Ragragsakan
This Ifugao wedding festival dance is accompanied by gongs and is performed by the
affluent to attain the second level of the wealthy class.
Uyaoy
One Male woodpecker rhythmically bang on a brass gong to represent a good voice, while
the other swish about a colorful blanket representing beautiful plumage.
Tarektek
This is a ceremonial dance performed only by men to ask gods for help in punishing the
killing of their warrior.
Himog
They believe in Pamulak Manobo who created the heaven and the earth and molded the
first man named Toglai and woman named Toglibon.
Bagobo
In the occupational dance, __________ acts out a whole sequence of the rice cycle into dance
Tudak
The __________ is the Kalinga courtship dance, performed by a male and female (and thus is
sometimes called the "cayoo" dance).
Salisid
__________is an unusually exciting occupational dance which vividly portrays the labors of
catching “tauti” (catfish).
Tauti
Like the other Jotas in Philippine folk dances, this is an adaptation of the Castillian Jota, but
the castanets are made of bamboo and are only held, not fastened, to the fingers.
Jota Malinena
A dance originating from Zamboanga, displays steps with very strong Castillian influence,
but using Philippine bamboo castanets held loosely.
Jota Paragua
This is one of the most sophisticated courtship and flirtation dances of the Spanish era.
Paseo de Iloilo
The young ladies carry scented fans, or "paypay" and flirt with young men with canes and
straw hats, once more giving evidence of the Kastilian influence.
Paypay de manila
This dance was a favorite dance of the people of Laguana and Quezon during the Spanish
Era.
Malaguena
The __________ speaks in a mysterious language “intelligible” to the gods, offers the
sacrifices, and dances in a trance.
Shaman
Creative Rhythm
__________ can be found among ethnolinguistic communities strewn across the Philippine
islands who have not been significantly Westernized, either by Spain or the US.
Ethnic Dance
__________ are dances which celebrate an individual’s birth, baptism, courtship, wedding, and
demise. The life of the young is devoutly and joyfully ushered in nurtured and promoted.
Life-cycle Dance
__________ are generally held in the evenings. The participants are usually in formal attire.
Social ballroom dancing
This is the first type of dance that was held in the year of 400 BCE.
Indian Classical Dance
Refers to movement set to music where there emerge organizations, structure, and pattern.
Dance
The ethnic Filipinos enact these rites—always with instrumental music, chanting, and often
dancing—as “part of communal life cycles.
Ritual Dance
A rite for everyone’s well-being gathers on a mat a coconut which also simulates a
decapitated head brought in by a victorious mengal or headhunter, coconut fronds and
flowers, bamboo strips, pots, and chickens.
Isneg of the Northeast Cordillera
They believed that they are descendants of the union of the sun and moon, the Mandaya.
Davao
Stage the anituan to drive away the evil spirits that cause sickness.
Aeta of Zambales
A man dresses up as a woman, in as much as most babaylan are women, but as man he
retains his strength which pleases the gods.
Umayamnon of Subanon
The noble Subanon rose up to the clouds with their servants, who came down again and
told of a heaven of gold and light.
Sandayo of Subanon
Examples of this dance are the dances of the mountain peoples of the Cordilleras, dances of
the ethnic groups in the Cagayan Valley Region and the ethnic dances in the Mindanao
Regions.
Ethnic dance
Examples of this dance are the rural and country dances, jotas, mazurkas, pandanggos,
among others with foreign influence.
Folk dance
__________ are dances which transform defense and livelihood activities to celebratory
performances.
Occupational Dance
It simulates the movements of a rooster at love play, aspiring to attract and seize his love.
Salip