are celebrations or series of events and performances in commemoration of a person, religious events, history or stories
Festivals
Kalibo, Aklan
Make believe " Ati "
Ati-atihan
Held every third week of january
Ati-atihan
Ati-atihan Festival
People cheer and shout '' HalaBira " and '' VivaSantoNino! ''
Religious festival held on the third sunday of january
Cebu
To honor the Santo Nino
Sinulog
Sinulog Festival
The petrioners often yell out '' PitSenior ''
Annual celebration on the twentythird of July
Bauan and Agoncillo and the Santo Nino of BatangasCity
Subilan
Subsub- bending your body forward/downward
Bali - broken
Colorful folk-religious festivals during Holy Week.
Morions wear their costumes for an entire week, scare children away and court the ladies by singing and dancing for them.
Moriones
A festival in Marinduque
Moriones
A festival that reenactment of the story of Saint Longinus.
Moriones
Accompanied by rhythmic music of drums precussions, trumpets and native gongs.
Sinulog
Consists of tribal dance parade with drum music, costumes and indigenous accesories to honor the Santo Nino of Holy Child Jesus.
Ati atihan
Performed with chanting and accompanied by drums.
Subilan
Held in Davao every thirdweek of August in celebration of thanksgiving for good harvest with parade floats of fresh fruits and flowers and street dancing with colorful tribal coustumes and accesories
Kadayawan
Used to be called Apo Duwalig
Kadayawan
Mt. Apo
King of Durian
Waling-Waling
Queen of Orchids
In 1998 the festival was renamed '' Kadayawan sa Dabaw ''
Held in Bicol Region, aims to express friendliness, enthusiasm and goodwill to all people.
To commemorate the 3 heroes of the Bicol epic in the town namely Baltong, Handong and Bantong.
The people in the parade in the streets wearing mask and costumes like the heroes and villain in the epic.
Ibalong
It is the greek word for play.
It is something done, not read.
Drama
It has action, dialogue, props and costumes. It has background music, music speech and music of movement.
Drama
Descended from the 16th century spanish media ( PLAY )
One of the colorful theatrical traditions in the Philippines.
Used by spanish as a method to spread Christianity.
Komedya
This theatrical form describes the conflict of Christians and Muslims.
Komedya
The 2 types of Komedya
Secular Religious
An art form of lyric theater drama.
Incorporated with singing, dancing and dialogue
Originated in Spain and was made popular in the Philippines in the 1800's
It portrays the typical Filipino realities and stories in a particular country and social relations which viewers can relate in their lives such as elections, feast, marriage and family.
Sarsuela
Stage show that became popular during the Japanese period based on Frenchvacoleville.
Was developed because the city growers wanted to uplift their emotional stability from the visual stage acts to a stage presentation featuring comedy, monologue, skits, impersonators, acrobats and even magicalacts.