HEALTH-OPTIMIZING PHYSICAL EDUCATION 3

DANCE

Quarter 2 Festival Dance for Fitness

Module 8
Session Week 5-6/Second Quarter

Most Essential Learning Competencies

1. Participates in an organized event that addresses health/fitness issues and concerns.

What I Need to Know

This module is guided with set of instruction specifically for grade 12 students who are taking up
H.O.P.E. 3 under the K to 12 curriculum. You can go through the material at your own pace of
creativity at your own time. Let your output set as a recorded performance at the same time
engaging in this different physical activity in promoting active lifestyle and achieve holistic
development of an individual.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this session the learners are expected to:
1. describe the nature of festival dances;
2. identify various festival dances in the country;
3. recognize health issues and concerns that may occur in participation to festival dances; and
4. appreciate the value of festival dances.

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 What I Know

Learning Task 1
True or False. Analyze each item carefully. Write T if the statement is correct and F if it
is not.

_______ 1. Filipinos love to celebrate fiestas.

_______ 2. Fiestas become important avenues for artistic engagement.
_______ 3. There is age restriction in participating to festival dances.
_______ 4. Philippine festivals are all religious in nature.
_______ 5. Festival dances reflect the unity of the Filipino people.

What’s In

Learning Task 2

Are you a good traveler? Let’s find out how good you are! Match Column A which are the
different festivals in the country with Column B which are the places of origin. Write only
the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. Bangus A. Baguio City

2. Higantes B. Bicol

3. Kadayawan C. Cebu City

4. Panagbenga D. Davao City

5. Penafrancia E. Pangasinan

F. Rizal

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 What’s New

Learning Task 3

1. What comes to your mind when you see this logo?

2. Why do you think “It’s More Fun in the Philippines”?

What is it ?

Introduction

Festivals in the Philippines are an integral aspect of the local culture, known
for their grand and vibrant celebrations . Festivals in the Philippines are fairly
common occurrence, with over 42,000 major and minor festivals celebrated
across the country.

Given the Spanish influence on Catholic spirituality in the Philippines, a

number of festivals celebrated here are religion-based. Besides that, there are
a number of other festivals that mark important historic events. Irrespective of
the origin, locals go all-out to celebrate each of these festivals. Costumes,
dances, parades and some of the most elaborate processions are a site worth
witnessing.

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Festival Dance

The Philippines has so many festivals: there are town fiestas celebrating foundation days,
patron saints and a combination of both. These festivals are occasions when and where
people converge. But what are festival dances? These are dances performed to the strong
beats of percussion instruments by a community of people sharing the same culture
usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest. Moreover,
festival dances draw peoples’ culture by portraying the peoples way of life through
movements, costumes and implements inherent to their place of origin.

Furthermore, why do we celebrate festival dances? To conserve Filipino traditions and

values, we need festivals and dances. It is just a way to think of past and be thankful to
God for all the things given. A festival is a celebration that repeats once in a year and
involves special activities or amusements. Festivals bring people closer to each other and
make social bonds. They are reflection of the unity of the Filipino community that despite
their economic, social, environmental, cultural and political challenges we face every day,
there can be no other race more resilient than ours.

Nature of Philippines Festival Dances

 Religious - in honor of a certain religious icon.

 Secular or Non-Religious – in thanksgiving or celebration of peoples’ industry and
bountiful harvest.

Religious Festivals
Name of Place of Origin Religious Figure Month of
Festival Honored Celebration
Sinulog Cebu City Sto. Nino January

Dinagyang Iloilo City Sto. Nino January

Ati-Atihan Kalibo, Aklan Sto. Nino January

Penafrancia Bicol Virgin Mary September

Higantes Angono, Rizal Saint Clement November

Longganisa Vigan, Ilocos Sur Saint Paul January

Kinabayo Dapitan City James the Great July

Pintados de Pintados City, Sto. Nino March

Passi Iloilo
Pattarradday Santiago City Senor Santiago May

Sangyaw Tacloban City Sto. Nino July

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 Secular/Non-Religious Festivals
Name of Place of Origin Industry Month of
Festival Celebration
Bangus Dagupan, Milkfish April-May
Pangasinan
Bambanti Isabela Scarecrow January

Mammangui City of Ilagan Corn May

Mango Iba, Zambales Mango April

Panagbenga Baguio City Flower February

Ibon Ebon Pampanga Migratory Birds February

Egg Industry
Masskara Bacolod City Mask (Sugar October
Industry)
T’nalak Koronadal, Colorful Abaca January
Cotabato
Ammungan Nueva Vizcaya Gathering of Tribal May
Industries
Binatbatan Vigan, Ilocos Sur Weaving May

Some of the Famous Festival Dances in the Country

Sinulog Festival
The Sinulog is an annual
festival held on the third Sunday of
January in Cebu City, Philippines.
The festival honors the child Jesus,
known as the Santo Niño (Holy
Child), patron of the city of Cebu. It
is a dance ritual that
commemorates the Cebuano
people’s pagan origin, and their
acceptance of Christianity. The
festival features a street parade
with participants in bright-colored
costumes dancing to the rhythm of
drums, trumpets, and native
gongs.

Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MUWqa7iL4

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Masskara Festival
The MassKara Festival is a
week-long festival held each year in
Bacolod City, the capital of Negros
Occidental province. The festival
features a street dance competition
where people from all walks of life
troop to the streets to see
colorfully-masked dancers gyrating
to the rhythm of Latin musical
beats in a display of mastery,
gaiety, coordination and stamina.
The word MassKara has a double
meaning. First, it is a fusion of the
English word “mass” or many and
“kara”, the Spanish word for “face.”
MassKara then becomes a “mass of
faces,” and these faces have to be
smiling to project Bacolod already
known in the late 70’s as the City
of Smiles.
Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrwhWlbKRh8

Panagbenga Festival
Panagbenga is month-long
annual flower festival occurring
in Baguio. The festival, held during
the month of February, was
created as a tribute to the city’s
flowers and as a way to rise up
from the devastation of the 1990
Luzon earthquake. The festival
includes floats that are decorated
with flowers unlike those used in
Pasadena’s Rose Parade. The
festival also includes street
dancing, presented by dancers clad
in flower-inspired costumes that is
inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi
dance of celebration that came
from the Cordillera region.

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 Some of the Famous Festivals in CALABARZON

Pahiyas Festival
Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas
Festival in honor of the patron
saint of farmers, St. Isidore. This
festival showcases a street of
houses which are adorned with
fruits, vegetables, agricultural
products, handicrafts and kiping, a
rice-made decoration, which
afterwards can be eaten grilled or
fried. The houses are judged and
the best one is proclaimed the
winner.

Higantes Festival
Angono celebrates the
“Higantes Festival” which coincides
with the Feast of Saint Clement,
the Patron Saint of Angono.
Higantes Festival is now promoted
as tourism-generating event in the
country. This attracts numerous
tourist from all over the world. The
higantes are made of paper-mache.
Higantes measures four to five feet
in diameter and ten to twelve feet
in height. Traditionally, it began in
the last century when Angono was
a Spanish hacienda. This higantes
was influenced by the Mexican art
form of paper-mache brought by
the Spanish priests to the
Philippines.

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Batingaw Festival
The Batingaw Festival
commemorates the legendary
“Kampanang Ginto” which
Cabuyao is known. The celebration
always starts with the
simultaneous ringing of church
bells, which believes, bring good
agricultural harvest. Highlights of
the five-day festival includes the
colorful street dancing, singing
contest, trade fair exhibits &
fireworks.

What’s More

Learning Task 4

Participation to activity like festival dances is fun. It is also a form of physical activity
that can improve your health and reduce the risk of several diseases like type 2 diabetes,
cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Physical activity and exercise can have immediate and
long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity can improve your quality of
life.

Part I
Knowing the various festivals in the country, look for the different festivals
celebrated in the province of Cavite. Do this by completing the given table.
Name of Festival Place of Origin Nature of Month of
Celebration Celebration
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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Part II
Being a performer in uncertain time like this gives us a different scenario. As part
of a performing group, what do you think are the health/fitness issues and concerns that
should be addressed? How will you deal with these concerns?

What I Have Learned

Learning Task 5
With the current situation we are facing, is it possible to organize activity that will
help us develop our fitness level? In what way/s can it be done? (Explain your answer in
3-5 sentences only.)

What I Can Do

Learning Task 6

Festival dances are amusing to look at. They are characterized by colorful and
artistic costumes. Dancers also perform energetically using a wide variety of formations.
In this activity, consider yourself as creative director of a festival dance. Design the stage
and make an inspired costume for a festival dance you want most. Use a short bond paper
to illustrate your work.

Assessment

Identify the word/s being described.

1. It draws peoples’ culture by portraying the peoples way of life through movements,
costumes and implements inherent to their place of origin.
2. It is the type of festival celebrated in honor of a religious icon.
3. It is the type of festival celebrated as form of thanks giving.
4. This festival is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people’s pagan origin,
and their acceptance of Christianity
5. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables,
agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made decoration, which afterwards
can be eaten grilled or fried.