PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES

PHYSICAL EDUCATION GRADE 12

Philippine folk dances speak so much about the heartbeat of our Filipino people for they tell about our:
1. Customs, 2. Ideas, 3. Beliefs, 4. Superstitions , 5. And events

Just by looking at the costumes, props and implements of a certain group of tribe you can tell the origin of the
dance.
The kind of music being used readily also tells about the influences brought about by our neighboring countries like:
1. China
2. Malaysia
3. Indonesia
4. Burma
5. Cambodia
6. Thailand
7. Japan
DANCE AS AN INTEGRATION TO HUMANITIES
The Artist – is a person who exhibits exceptional skills in design, drawing, painting or one who works in one of the
performing arts. When he sees or learns something that impresses him, he express himself in one medium .

2 kinds of Artist :
1. Creators 2. Performers

Performing Arts - the ideas and the interpretations of the performers are added to the original ideas of the creator.

Example: Two great actors may play the same role in Florante and Laura yet give different interpretations.

Creativity – is an artist trait developed in the course of his life to solve problems or express his feelings.

PROCESS OF CREATIVITY

Artist – prime mover

Performer – the one who communicate ideas
Audiences – interpreters

Process of Creation
Idea – artist have ideas which illuminate and enrich the live sof all man kind. A study of the arts is the study of
mankind, for through the arts we can discover man’s major interest, feelings, problems through the ages.

Material and Process – the second place of creation in art, concerns the material which the artist uses to give form
to his ideas.

Organization and Process – the third phase in creating is organizing the idea and giving it form in selected material.
Artist have developed a hosts of different forms to express the ideas they work on.

Example: Poetry has a number of well defined forms which are often used: the sonnet and quatrain

THE SCOPE OF HUMANITIES

The humanities is a many faceted subject.
1. Visual arts
2. Literature
3. Drama
4. Theater
5. Music
6. Dance
VISUAL ARTS – are those that we [perceive with our eyes.
LITERATURE – the art combining spoken or written words and their meanings into forms which have artistic and
emotional appeal is called literature.
MUSIC – is the art of arranging sounds in rhythmic succession and generally in combination.
DRAMA – is a story created by actors on a stage in front of an audience.
DANCE – involves the movements of the body and the feet in rhythm.

Basic steps in Folk Dancing

1. Padyak – to stamp or tap with one foot and weight of the body is on the other foot.
2. Saludo- it means to bow
3. Arms in Lateral Position- both arms are in one side at the shoulder level either right or left.
4. Set –a dance formation of two or more couples.
5. Bend – to move the body around wide axis
6. Leap- to spring one foot and land on the other foot
7. Skip- step and hop

Other basic steps are:

1. Change step
2. Brush step
3. Slide step
4. Waltz step
5. Do-si-do formation
6. Jaleo
7. Bilao

Dance- It is an art performed by individuals or group of human being, existing in time, space, force and flow in
which the human body is the instrument and movement is the medium.
- Richard Krauss.
-Commonly performed with music or other accompaniment and has a primary purpose of expressing the inner
feelings and emotions, although it is often performed for social, ritual, entertainment or other purposes.

Universal characteristics of dance

1. Use of human body
2. Extends through time
3. Exist in space
4. Exist in force
5. Accompanied by rhythm
6. Serves to communicate
7. Has movement and style

Classification of a dance
1. Ballet
2. Modern Dance
3. Classical Dance
4. Ethnic Dance
5. Folk Dance
6. Ballroom Dance
7. Exercise Dance
8. Dance Exercise
9. Dance Drama
10. Allied Movement Form
11. Street Dance
12. Interpretative dance
FOLK DANCE
• Usually performed by a group of consisting of members of a community.
• Its steps and patterns are not creation of an identifiable choreographer but are passed from generation to
another.
Ethnic dances
 Ethnic dances are found among the ethnolinguistic groups scattered all over the Philippine islands, who
have not been substantially Westernized, either by Spain or the United States.

FESTIVAL DANCE
1. Ati-Atihan Festival
3rd Sunday of January
2. Sinulog
3rd Sunday of January
3. Dinagyang
4th Sunday of January
4. Panagbenga Festival
Whole Month of February
5. Kaamulan
second half of February to March 10
6. Moriones
Holy Week
7. Flores de Mayo & Santacruzan
1st May – 31st May
8. Carabao Festival
14th May – 15th May
9. Pahiyas Festival
15th May
10. Obando Fertility Rites
17th May – 19th May
11. PINTADOS FESTIVAL
29th June
12. Kadayawan Festival
Third week of August
13. Penafrancia Fluvial
Third Saturday and Sunday of September
14. MassKara Festival
3rd weekend nearest to 19th October