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Likha – 25 Years of Promoting Philippine Dance and Culture
Likha – 25 Years of Promoting Philippine Dance and Culture
This year marks 25 years of perhaps the most exhilarating performances by an iconic group in San Francisco’s Filipino American community. LIKHA Pilipino Folk Ensemble has been an envoy for Filipino culture through dance and music since 1992 when it was founded by Rudi C. Soriano, a former dance soloist with the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company.
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Published at 2018-03-13 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: culture, dances
Philippine Occupational Dance
Philippine Occupational Dance
Characteristically a hardworking group of people, the Filipinos exhibit work and occupation even in their dances. Occupational dances depict the lifestyle and daily work of the people living in various topographies. The fishing villages from north to south of the archipelago developed folk dances depicting their customs in the workplace.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary
Tags: Tradition, dances
Philippine Martial Dance
Philippine Martial Dance
Martial dances pertain to war, combat, or duel movements common to dances for men. In the context of Philippine dance, these dances symbolize manhood. It can mean community acceptance in the council of warriors as practiced in the Mangayaw of the Bontoc – an ethnic group in the Cordillera Region of Northern Luzon. The Mangayaw is a a pre-headhunting ritual performed by adult villagers where new warriors are presented to the council.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Martial Art, dances
Philippine Ethnic Dabces
Philippine Ethnic Dabces
Ancient in origin but contemporaneous, ethnic dance lives on in the Philippines. The forms and functions are many, performed by a variety of ethnic groups over the 7,000plus islands. Many of these dances have changed through time , but much of what it is are still alive in all color and rhythm, in many modes and observances.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary, History
Tags: Ethnography, Philippines, dances
Philippine Dance Research and Documentation
Philippine Dance Research and Documentation
As a process of retrieving information on the ways of dancing, dance research occupies a limited sector in Philippine scholarship. By the ephemeral nature of dance, this scholarship is still to be fully oriented to understand and cope with the art and its practice. More developed methods of documentation have fairly been new, and predominantly, research still depends on verbal descriptions and pictures than on advanced forms of movement notation, filming and computer technology.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: dances, research
Philippine Dance in the Spanish Period
Philippine Dance in the Spanish Period
European imperial ambitions spread to the Orient. Sanctioning this, the Roman Catholic Church played umpire to disputing nations by subdividing their playing fields. By that, the Philippines should not have been Spanish territory if not for Ferdinand Magellan chancing upon it in 1521 and by Miguel Lopez Legaspi’s establishment of government in 1565. After them, the islands fell under Spanish suzerainty for more than three centuries.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary, History
Tags: Spanish, culture, dances
Philippine Dance Education
Philippine Dance Education
Dance Education involves the teaching of tradition, technique, style and the methodologies of teaching dance itself.Tradition is taught in and out of school, in academic disciplines and in social practices or customs. The school teaches formally with syllabi and systems while the society teaches in communal activities, from rites to games, from work to celebrations.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary, Education
Tags: Tradition, dances
Philippine Contemporary Dance
Philippine Contemporary Dance
Rising from the rubbles of WW II and freed from American domination, the Filipinos surged in creativity. The ’50 and ’60s saw dance revival and choreographic invention.
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Published at 2017-12-25 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary
Tags: dances