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 in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest
Festival Dances
May be religious or secular in nature.
Best thing about festivals is that they add the merry-making and festivities where they are celebrated.
Festival Dances
Draw the people's culture by portraying the people's ways of life through movements, costumes and implements inherent to their place of origin.
Festival Dances
Reflection of the unity of the Filipino community that despite the economic, social, environmental, cultural and political challenges we face every day
Festival Dances
Consistent crowd-producing activity leading to upliftment of a community's economy due to its tourism and entertainment value.
Reason for festivals
Country's festival of festivals. Done in the month of April
Aliwan Fiesta
Honor of a certain religious icon
Religious
Thanksgiving or celebration of peoples industry and bountiful harvest.
Secular or non-religious
It came from Cebuano adverb sulog which roughly means "like water current movement", it describes the forward-backward movement
Sinulog Festival
Dance consists of two steps forward and one step backward, done to the sound of drums
Sinulog Festival
One of the grandest and most colorful festival in the Philippines.
• Celebrated in honor of the Sto. Niño, the child of Jesus
Sinulog Festival
Annual cultural and religious festival held on the 3rd Sunday of January in Cebu City.
Sinulog Festival
First known as the lloilo Ati-Atihan was born because of the devotion to Santo Niño.
• An annual religious and socio-cultural gathering held every 4th Sunday of January
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• Iloilo City's widest and grandest celebration in honor of Santo Niño
Dinagyang Festival
was labeled "Iloilo Ati-Atihan" to differentiate it from other Ati-Atihan festivals. Iloilo Ati-Atihan dates back to the year 1967 when a replica of the image of Señor Santo Niño was first brought from Cebu by the San Jose Parish in Iloilo City.
Dinagyang Festival
Feast held annually in January in honor of the Santo Niño (Infant Jesus), concluding on the third Sunday, in the island and town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.
Ati-Atihan Festival
They look like warriors of centuries ago in a festive mood, in celebration of an occasion. They fill the streets of Kalibo, Aklan.
Ati-Atihan Festival
• They sound up the drums and it is only once a year.
Its called the Mother of All Filipino Festivals.
Ati-Atihan Festival
They're also known as Negritos, are an indigenous people who have distinctively black skin and curly hair.
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They will shout "Viva la Virgen" to the high heavens.
• The feast day is preceded by a novena, or 9 days of prayer in honor of the Virgin.
Peñafrancia
On the 1st day, the image of the Virgin, a copy of the Madonna in Peñafrancia, Spain is brought from its shrine to the naga Catherad where the novena is held. It's held every September
Peñafrancia
• Also known as the Feast of San Clemente.
• Celebrated every November 23 in the town of Angono, Rizal
Higantes Festival
This is a major festival in honor of San Clemente, the patron saint of fishermen.
• Adding color and gaiety to Angono town fiesta
Higantes Festival
• Celebrated early the 23rd of November, are the "Higantes", paper to mache to giants measuring four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height
Higantes Festival
First festivity celebrated in Vigan every year which usually happens every 22nd of January, the date of the cityhood of Vigan
Longganisa Festival
January 25 is the exact date of Vigan City fiesta, also the date of the conversion of the City's Patron Saint, St. Paul
Longganisa Festival
• St. James, the Greater is the patron saint of Dapitan City.
• Celebrated by city folk centering on his feast day, July.
• An exotic and colorful pageant re-enacting the Spanish-Moorish wars.
Kinabayo Festival
• Passi City, central of llo-ilo province, is perharps one of the best known and established festivals of the Visayan region that have evolved through the years.
• Celebrated every 3rd week of March
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Called to people lives in Passi
Passinhons
• is a religious and socio-cultural event in the Philippines.
• Revived in 2008 by the city government of Tacloban City
Sangyaw Festival
It means "to herald news" in Waray language
• Festival was first held in 1974 but cancelled in 1987.
Created by the former Lady Imelda Marcos in the 80s.
Sangyaw Festival
These are movements that allow you to move from one point in space to another.
Locomotor Movements
It is derived from two words, "locos" which means place and motor which means movement.
Locomotor Movements
This is the basis of all locomotor movements. It prepares you to move in any direction you wish to go.
Step
It is defined as transfer of weight from one foot to the other
Step
Series of steps executed by both of your feet alternately in any direction.
Walk
Series of walks executed quickly in any direction wherein only one foot stays on the ground while the other is off the ground
Run
This movement is simply described by having both feet lose its contact with the ground.
Jump
• These are movements that are performed in one point in space without transferring to another point.
• They don't allow you to move from one place to the other
Non-Locomotor movements
It is the act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for flexion is to bend. If you bend a joint, like your elbow or knee, you are performing flexion