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• Religious Festivals:

  • Sinulog Festival: Cebu City, Honours Sto. Niño
  • Dinagyang Festival: Iloilo City, Honours Sto. Niño
  • Ati-atihan Festival: Kalibo, Aklan, Honours Sto. Niño
  • Penafrancia: Bicol, Honours Virgin Mary
  • Higantes Festival: Angono, Rizal, Honours Saint Clement
  • Longganisa Festival: Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Honours Saint Paul
  • Kinabayo Festival: Dapitan City, Honours James the Great
  • Pintados de Passi: Pintados City, Iloilo, Honours Sto. Niño
  • Pattarradday Fashivard: Santiago City, Honours Señor Santiago
  • Sangyaw Festival: Tacloban City, Honours Sto. Niño
• Festival dances are cultural dances performed to the strong beats of percussion instruments by a community of people sharing the same culture
• Festival dances are usually done in honor of a patron saint or in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest
• 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
• In the Philippines, festivals are generally some of the most awaited events of the year, celebrating religious and secular or non-religious events
• Religious festivals in the Philippines are celebrated in honor of a certain religious icon or saint of a particular place
• Secular festivals or non-religious festivals in the Philippines are celebrated in thanksgiving or celebration of people's industry and bountiful harvests
• Locomotor movements in folk dance:

  • Step: transfer of weight from one foot to another
  • Walk: series of steps executed by both feet alternately in any direction
  • Run: series of walks executed quickly in any direction with only one foot on the ground
  • Jump: movement where both feet lose contact with the ground in various ways
• Non-locomotor movements in folk dance:

  • Flexion: decreasing the angle of a joint
  • Extension: increasing the angle of a joint
  • Contraction: muscle movement when it shortens, narrows, and tightens
  • Release: muscle movement opposite of contraction, letting go or losing tension
  • Collapse: deliberately dropping the exertion of energy into a body segment
  • Recover: regaining the energy exerted into a body segment
  • Rotation: moving a body segment to complete a circle
  • Twist: moving a body segment from an axis halfway front or back or quarter to the right or left
  • Five volt: changing the position of the feet or body part carrying the body's weight allowing a less than 360-degree turn
  • Turn: moving in a turning movement with a base of support usually pointed foot while maintaining equilibrium
• Bangus: Dagupan, Pangasinan, Celebrates Milkfish Industry in April to May Bambanti: Isabela City, Celebrates Scarecrow (forming) in January

  Mammangui: City of Ilagan, Celebrates Corn in May

  mango: Iba, Zambales, Celebrates mango in July

  Panagbenga: Baguio City, Celebrates Flower in February

  Ibon Ebon: Pampanga, Celebrates January

  Masskara: Bacolod, Celebrates Mask (Sugar Industry) in October

  Tinalak: Coronadal, Cotabato, Celebrates Colorful Abaca in January

  Ammungan: Nueva Vizcaya, Celebrates Gathering of Tribal Weaving Industries in May

  Binat Batan: Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Celebrates March