Dance

• FRANCISCA R. AQUINO

  • DATE OF AWARD: 1973
  • POPULAR WORKS: RESEARCHES OF PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES, ONE EXAMPLE IS “PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES AND GAMES”
  • FOLK DANCE PIONEER.
  • MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE DANCING.
  • SHE BEGAN RESEARCHING AND DOCUMENTING THE UNRECORDED FOLK DANCES IN THE PH
• LEONOR O. GOQUINGCO

  • DATE OF AWARD: 1976
  • POPULAR WORKS: THE ELEMENTS, TREND: RETURN TO THE NATIVE, FESTIVAL IN MAGUINDANAO
  • DUBBED AS THE “TRAILBLAZER”,
  • “MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE THEATER DANCE”
  • “DEAN OF FILIPINO PERFORMING ARTS CRITICS”
  • PIONEER FILIPINO CHOREOGRAPHER IN BALLETIC FOLKLORIC AND ASIAN STYLES, PRODUCED FOR OVER 50 YEARS HIGHLY ORIGINAL, FIRST-OF-A-KIND CHOREOGRAPHIES, MOSTLY TO HER OWN STORYLINES.