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• Pangalay dance


  Traditional fingernail dance known as Daling-daling or mengah in Sabah
• Pangalay dance

  • Highlights the fingernails which represent beaks of birds
  • Has no definite sequence of figures, numbers, and kinds of steps etc. when performed by natives
  • Danced as if they're at the edge of a boat
  • Resembles the movements of kuntaw silat
• Kuntaw silat


  • Martial common in the Malay archipelago
  • Each movement of the fingers means something
• Dance culture of sua ku sua

  • Muslim lowland (coastal)
• Place of origin

  • Sulu archipelago
• Country of influence


  • Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia, and Indonesia
• Ethnolinguistic


  • Tausug and Sabah
• Classification


  • Life passage events: wedding and festival dance but more on wedding
• Dance researcher


  Francisca Reyes Aquino
• Francisca Reyes Aquino is known as the mother of Philippine folk dances
• Types of Pangalay


  • Pangasik - martial arts and usually performed by males
  • Pangiluk - more on weddings or ligaws, performed by both men and women
• Costume


  • Joloana costume
  • Janggay - metal and gold nails, said to layo evil spirits
• Sua ka Sua


  • Courtship dance
  • The suha tree's gentle leaves, slender branches, attractive fruits, and fragrant flowers is depicted as a lady
  • The couples flap 2 white fans which represent the leaves rustling in the wind
  • The fans sometimes transform into tiny sails, face mirrors, butterflies, shields, and leaves
• Sua ka sua's traditional steps are Chinese influenced
• Dance researcher


  Ramon A. Obusan
• Costume


  • Girl - barawasi and sawal/kantiu
  • Boy - siyag at bajo
• Sakuting Folk dance


  • Fight dance using Arnis movements
  • Interprets a fight between Ilocano Christians and non Christians
  • Performed house to house as a form of traditional carolling show
• During Spanish Colonial rule, Spaniards taught Filipinos the arnis but then felt threatened so they abolished arnis, although to preserve the practice of arnis they used the arnis movements as part of the folk dance
• Sakuting


  Rhythmic sticks
• Place of origin


  • Abra and Ilocos Norte
• Country of Influence


  • China
• Music


  Has Chinese and Spanish background - has staccato infectives and rhythmic tappings
• Classification


  Social Dance / Entertainment
• Traditionally the sakuting was performed by boys only but then evolved to folk dance which now both boys and girls are able to perform
• Costume


  • Girls - Kimono with sleeves of elbow length and ankle length skirt of bright coloured plaid shirred at the waist
  • Boys - camisa de chino, red trousers, and native hat
• Kabuki theatre


  • Stylization of its drama
  • Art of singing and dancing and one of the popular traditional form of theatre which began at the end of 16th century that is performed in a relaxed atmosphere to demonstrate its happiness
  • Mainly recalls historical events, romances, and love affairs. Therefore there are 3 main genres in the repertoire: historic drama, contemporary or domestic drama, and dances
• Kabuku


  Meaning to lean and to be out of ordinary
• Kabuki is the most successful theater entertainment
• Kabuki is similar to Noh theater, oldest form of theatre and a unique and genuine expressions of the Japanese spirit and culture
• Pentatonic scale


  • A pattern mainly developed using the pentatonic style adopted from China
  • Mostly used in Noh and Kabuki
• Kabukimono


  Bizarrely dressed and paraded on a street
• Izumo no Okuni, a shrine maiden, is believed to be the one who invented Kabuki
• In 1603, the Kabuki became famous for its sensual gimmicks in the red light district, so it was banned for women to play. In 1633, the Tokugawa shogun forbid young men to play Kabuki, so from then on only men play Kabuki and when they play women (onnagoto) or children they crossdress
• Vocal and instrument


  Dance movements are accompanied by shamisen
• Shamisen Music


  • Gagaku - classic court music
  • Kagura - performed in Shinto shrines
  • No - chant derived from shomyo
  • Nagauta - a love song
• Vocal pattern and techniques


  • Ipponchosi - continuous pattern used for build up in aragoto style
  • Nori - adapted from the chanting of joruri, a traditional narrative music
  • Yakuharai - subtle delivery of poetical text written in the Japanese metrical form of alternating 7 and 5 syllables
• Parts of the Kabuki stage


  • Hanamichi - flower path, a walkway which extends to the audience which dramatic entrances and exits are made
  • Kogakudo - stage both in front of the audience and along the sides to help create a bond between the actor and the viewers
  • Mawaro butal - the interior contains a revolving stage
  • Kakiwari - the room itself
  • Shimote - the right stage (perspective of the actors)
  • Kamite - the left stage (perspective of the actors)
  • Seri - like a trap door
  • Suppon - platform that rises from below the stage
  • Hanamicho - walkway that cuts through the audience seating area to connect the stage with the back of the theater
• 3 main categories of Kabuki play


  • Jidaimono - historical or pre Sengoku period stories
  • Sewamono - domestic or post Sengoku stories (about commoners, family)
  • Shosagoto - dance pieces
• Roles in Kabuki


  • Onnagoto - female roles
  • Aragoto - male roles
• Makeup


  • Aragoto - red and blue paint
  • Onnagota (young women) - have very little paint
  • White oshiroi - made from rice powder
  • Kumadori - exaggerated facial lines