4 FILIPINO FOLK DANCES

Banga Cariñosa An example of

a Maria Clara
dance. In the original version, the dancers
The Banga or pot dance is a
used the Fan and handkerchief as the
performance of Kalinga of the
way to do the hide and seek movement,
Mountain Province in the
in Bicol they used two handkerchiefs
Philippines. This dance
holding the two corners of the
illustrates the languid grace of handkerchief and doing the
a tribe. Heavy earthen pots, hide and seek movement as
as many as seven or eight at they point their foot
a time, are balanced on the forward and their
heads of maidens. hands go upward together
with their
handkerchiefs.

Maglalatik
This dance depicts the fight
between the Moros and the
are many interpretations of this dance.
Christians over the 'latik'.
The 'latik' is the residue that is left after
the coconut milk has been cooked and
boiled. This dance is composed of a
four-part performance and the first two
performance of the dance is called as
the 'Palipasan' and the 'Baligtaran'.
Singkil
Singkil is usually in the repertory of
most Filipino dance troupes. There
Originally, in Singkil (Maranao word for
"getting a leg or foot entangled in an
object") a solo female performer
danced in and out of crisscrossed
bamboo poles, keeping time to the
syncopation of the poles, at the same
time manipulating two fans (apir).