DANC

E
What is Dance?
Dance is a performance art consisting of
purposefully selected sequences of human
movement.

This movement has aesthetic and

symbolic value, and is acknowledged as
dance by performers and observers
within a particular culture.
D- o
A
N-ew
C-reative
E-xercise
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
TIME
ENERGY
MOVEMENT
SPACE
MUSIC
What is FOLK DANCES?
Folk dances are dances
developed by groups of
people that reflect the
traditional life of the people
of a certain country or
region.
• May be divided into the regional or national
• Philippine folk dances are diverse, and include
religious, ceremonial, courtship, funeral, combative,
exorcism, torture, comic and game dances.
• The dance use movements of the head, waist, arms,
feet throwing, circling, swooping, offering,
crowning.
• Folk dance is defined as a traditional dance of given
people. A definite pattern or dance routine is usually
specified and followed.
Fundamental Steps
of the Arms and
Feet
FOLK
DANCES and
It’s ORIGIN
BINASUAN
 BINASUAN
• A colorful and lively dance from
PANGASINAN.
• The word binasuan means” with the
use of drinking glasses and how the
performers balance glasses on the
heads and hands while gracefully
dancing
KURATSA
 KURATSA
• A traditional Filipino courtship dance
from BOHOL.
• A male approaches and courts a lady
in a form of dance.
• During wedding and fiestas it serves
as a traditional money dance
DUGSO
 DUGSO
• Dugso means Dance
• A ceremonial dance among the
Manobo people in BUKIDNON
• A sacrifice dance rite
Pandanggo sa Ilaw
 Pandanggo sa Ilaw
• Very popular folk dance in the
Philippines.
• Originated in MINDORO
• This dance of light simulates
fireflies at dusk and at night
SINGKIL
 SINGKIL
• From LANAO DEL SUR
• Portraying a suitor courting a
princess dances opposite her
bearing a kris and shield.
ITIK ITIK
 ITIK ITIK
• From SURIGAO DEL NORTE
• The dance steps imitate the
movements if ducks among rice
paddles and swam lands such as
wading, flying and short
choppy steps
SAKUTING
 SAKUTING
• A town tradition during
Christmas.
• A folk dance from the Ilocanos
of ABRA with music from
Chinese and Spanish
background
MAGLALATIK
 MAGLALATIK
• A war dance representing, a
battle between the Moro and
the Christians
• From the province of
LAGUNA
PANTOMINA
 PANTOMINA
• Dance of the Doves, from
SORSOGON
• Pantomina mimic the courtship
between the doves and is often
also a courtship dance between
the couples that perform it
SUBLI
 SUBLI
• Sublian is indigenous to the
people of BATANGAS
• A ceremonial dance to give
homage to the Holy Cross