FESTIVAL DANCES

What is Festival Dance?

• Festival dances are cultural dances performed to

the strong beats of percussion instruments by
community of people sharing the same culture
usually done in honour of a Patron Saint or in
thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest.
 What is Festival Dance?

• Festival dances may be religious or secular in nature.

But the best thing about festivals is that they add to the
merry-making and festivities where they are celebrated,
the reason why they are called festival dances after all.
Festival dances draw the people’s culture by portraying
the people’s way of life through movements, costumes
and implements inherent to their place of origin.
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• Sinulog Festival (Cebu City)-to honor the Santo Niño (Child Jesus).
• Ati-Atihan Festival(Kalibo, Aklan)- to honour the Sto. Nino
• Dinagyang Festival(Ilo-ilo)- to honour the Sto. Nino
• Moriones Festival(Marinduque)- celebration of the Life of St. Longinus
eyes was healed by the blood of Christ.
• Pahiyas Festival(Lucban, Quezon)- Season of harvesting
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• Pintados-Kasadayan Festival(Tacloban City)- The dancers paint their faces and
bodies with vibrant colours of blue and green to depict Leyte’s ancestral people.
Some dancers are also painted with designs that look like armour to represent the
warriors that lived in Leyte long ago.
• Sirong Festival(Surigao del sur)- features a war dance between the muslims and
the Christians. It marks the Christianisation of the early Cantilangnons.
• Masskara Festival(Bacolod City)- Mass(vrowd0 Kara (Face) Festival is filled
with people wearing colourful smiling masks designed with feathers, flowers, and
native beads.
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• Giant Lanterns Festival (San Fernando, Pampanga)- It features a
competition of giant lantern making, which is why has been called the
“Christmas Capital of the Philippines”
• Panagbenga Festival(Baguio City)- Marvellous floats, designed with
various types of flowers, conquer the streets of Baguio City. Tourist can
expect street dancing by dancers wearing flower-inspired costumes.
 2 types of Festival
• Religious Festival- are done in honor of a certain religious icon or saint
of a particular place.
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• Secular Festival- celebrated in thanksgiving or celebration of people’s
industry and bountiful harvest
BASIC DANCE MOVEMENTS
 BASIC DANCE MOVEMENTS
• Locomotor Movements- These are movements that allow you to move
from one point in space to another. It is canned from two words, “locos”
which means place and “motor” which means movement.
a.Step
b.Walk
c.Run
d.Jump
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• Non-Locomotor movements- These are movements that are performed in one point in space without
transferring to another point. They don’t allow you move from one place to the other.
a.Flexion
b.Extension
c.Bending
d.Turn
e.Stretching extending
f.Lifting raising
g.Swinging
h.Twist
 Assignment

• Choose and watch one (1) religious festival and one (1)
nonreligious or secular festival on YouTube. Describe
and identify each festival dance based on place of
origin, costume, props/implementsl r cpus ,
characteristics of movements, dance terms, and basic
steps used in the festival dance.