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• Regional and National Dances with Asian Influence
• Lecture Objectives


  • Discuss the origin and location of SUA-KU-SUA folk dance through its background and costume
  • Appreciate the diverse cultural practices and perspectives through studying of the SUA-KU-SUA dance
  • Interpret and perform the dance literature of SUA-KA-SUA folk dance in a cohesive and engaging performance
• Philippine Folk Dance speaks so much about the heartbeat of our people for they tell about our customs, ideas, beliefs, superstitions, and events of daily living in a certain community
• The effect of acculturation in the country as manifested by the kinds of costumes, props, music, and dance steps that are used and integrated in to some of our regional and national folk dances
• Sua-Ku-Sua


  My Pomelo Tree
• Sua-Ku-Sua


  • Dance Culture: Lowland Muslim (Coastal)
  • Place of Origin: Jolo, Sulu
  • Country of Influence: China, Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Ethno-linguistic Group: Tausug
  • Classification: Courtship Dance
• Romanticized Relationship


  Pomelo trees symbolize virtues of a lady, with their gentle leaves, slender branches, attractive fruits, and fragrant flowers
• Sua-Ku-Sua Dance


  Song sung by couples while performing the dance, flapping two white fans resembling leaves rustling in the wind
• Sua-Ku-Sua performers


  • Especially women, with faces covered in finely ground rice powder and enhanced eyebrows and sideburns with soot, all for beauty's sake
• Barawasi


  Traditional loose blouse, long sleeves with deep, plunging key hole neckline, extra panels attached to the right and left chest decorated with many tiny brass buttons
• Sawal or Kantiu


  Loose Chinese pants with a soft white band attached to a wide waist
• Siyag


  A separate shoulder band in the form of malong made of rich material which is strung over the right shoulder crossing the chest and hanging on the left side
• Bajo


  Short waist collarless shirt that has an open front with the right panel overlapping the left and is studded with many tiny brass buttons used as decoration
• Music


  • 2/4 and 4/4 composed of three parts- A, B and C. Count: one, two to a measure of 2/4 time signature; one, two, three, four to a measure of 4/4 time signature
  • Gabbang bamboo xylophone are shaped-like a small boat which usually used to accompany songs and dances
  • Gabbang is a bamboo slats that thinned and cut to graduated sizes to produce three octaves of pentatonic scale
• Padyak


  To stamp or tap with one foot and the weight of the body is on the other foot
• Saludo


  It means to bow
• Arms in Lateral Position


  Both arms are in one side at shoulder level, either right or left
• Set


  A dance formation of two or more couples
• Bend


  To move the body or part of the body around the wide axis
• Leap


  To spring one foot and land on the other foot