FESTIVAL DANCES

IN THE PHILIPPINES
Group 2

Jeremy F. Solayao
Prayer
BEFORE WE START
ARRANGE THE
FESTIVAL DANCES IN THE PHILIPPINES

GNBAAPNGEA
PANAGBENGA

BAGUIO
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GOSUNIL
SINULOG

CEBU
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NAGDAYING
DINAGYANG

ILOILO
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NAITATAHI
ATIATIHAN

AKLAN
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TINAGESH
HIGANTES

ANGONO RIZAL
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 What is a FESTIVAL DANCE?
Festival dances are cultural 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 as a thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. Festival dances
may be religious or secular in nature.

What is the purpose of FESTIVALS?

Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture and traditions.
They are meant to rejoice special moments and emotions in our lives with our loved
ones. They play an important role to add structure to our social lives, and connect us
with our families and backgrounds.
 Two Types of Festival Dance
A Religious Festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that
religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a
calendar year or lunar calendar.

A Secular Festival is held purposely as a public honoring of outstanding persons,

or to commemorate important historical or cultural events, or to re-create
cherished folkways. The origin of communal celebration is a matter of
assumption among scholars.
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PHILIPPINES

SINULOG FESTIVAL

The Sinulog-Santo Niño

Festival
is an annual cultural and
religious festival held on the
third
Sunday of January in Cebu
City, and on the fourth
Sunday
of January in Carmen, Cebu,
and is the centre of the Santo
Niño Catholic celebrations in
the Philippines.
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ATI- ATIHAN FESTIVAL

The Ati-Atihan festival is a

Philippine festival held
annually in January in honor
of the
Santo Niño in several towns
of the province of Aklan,
Panay
Island. The biggest
celebration is held during the
third Sunday
of January in the town of
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DINAGYANG FESTIVAL

The Dinagyang Festival is a

famous and religious and cultural
festival in Iloilo City, Philippines
held on the 4th Sunday of
January, or right after the Sinulog
in Cebu
and the Ati-Atihan Festival in
Kalibo, Aklan.
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MASSKARA PHILIPPINES
FESTIVAL

The MassKara Festival is

an annual
festival with highlights
held every 4th Sunday of
October in Bacolod,
Philippines. The most
recent festival was held
from Oct 8–27, 2019.
The festival sites include
the Bacolod Public
Plaza, the Lacson
Tourism
Strip and the Bacolod
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PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL

Panagbenga Festival is a month-

long
annual flower occasion in
Baguio. The term is of
Kankanaey origin,
meaning "season of blooming".
The festival, held in February,
was
created as a tribute to the city's
flowers and as a way to rise up
from
the devastation of the 1990
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KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL

The Kadayawan Festival is

an
annual festival in the city of
Davao in the Philippines.
The festival
is a celebration of life, a
thanksgiving for the gifts of
nature, the
wealth of culture, the
bounties of harvest and
serenity of living.
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MORIONES FESTIVAL

The Moriones is a lenten

festival held
annually on Holy Week on
the island of Marinduque,
Philippines.
The "Moriones" are men
and women in costumes
and masks
replicating the garb of
biblical Imperial and Royal
Roman soldiers
as interpreted by locals.
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HIGANTES FESTIVAL

The Higantes Festival is a local

festival
held annually In Angono,
Philippines, where hundreds of
giant
papier-mâché puppets are paraded,
representing the common
people's mockery of the bad
hacienda owners of the past during
Spanish colonial rule.
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