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• Traditional Dance - referred to as folk dance

  • developed from certain cultural community inhabiting a particular place
• Dance Festivals - an organized event in different celebrations such as fiestas, weddings, thanksgiving, and other happy events
• Festival Dances - cultural dances performed to the strong beats of percussions by a community of people who share the same regional culture

  • usually done in honor of a patron saint or thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest
  • may be secular or religious
  • kadayawan, panagbenga, sinulog
• 2 basic dance steps in sinulog:

  1. Traditional step or kinaraan - forward and a step backward
  2. Kinampilan (armed with bladed weapon) - refers to the right foot stepping forward and a step backward, while the left foot stays in place
• 2 categories of Sinulog interpretation

  1. Sinulog-based - use basic and fundamental steps
  2. Free interpretation - focuses on tribal steps and well-researched dance steps and costumes
• Leaping - a locomotor skill taught in Sinulog as part of performance; to spring from one foor and land on the other foot in any direction.
• La Jota - A festival dance known throughout the different regions in the Philippines
• La Jota (Tagalog dance from Luzon)

  • Popular in San Pablo, Laguna
  • usually performed on festive occasions like wedding celebrations
  • Costume: girls - Maria Clara Style
  • Boys - Barong Tagalog and Black trousers
  • Music: Divided into five parts
• Basic Dance Steps:

  1. Close Steps
  2. Mudansa step
  3. chasing step
  4. waltz turn
• La Jota (Ilocano version)

  • popular in Paoay, Ilocos Norte
  • people dance especially on special occasions like the Guling-guling(Eve of Ash wednesday), Tambora(Eve of Christmas), and the feast of Sta. Maria and Sta. Rosa; also danced during weddings, baptismal parties, and other special gatherings
  • Costume: dressed in typical peasant costumes
• cardiovascular endurance - improves the ability of the heart, the blood vessels, and the respiratory system to deliver oxygen, which is needed to carry out daily activities efficiently
• dancing improves flexibility; increased in elasticity of muscles, tendons, and ligaments
• agility - ability of the body to change positionn rapidly
• coordination - ability of the body to produce smooth combination of the hand and eye or foot and eye movement