VISAYAN FOLK DANCES AND MUSIC

Tinikling is considered the national folkdance with a pair of dancers hopping between two bamboo poles held just above the ground and stuck together in time to music. Originated from Leyte Province. This dance is in fact a mimic movement of "tikling birds" hopping over trees, grass stems or over bamboo traps set by farmers. Dancers perform this dance with remarkable grace and speed jumping between bamboo poles.

MUSICAL

INSTRUMENTS

Is a Filipino string/percussion instrument that looks like a guitar. The player percusses on the base, while adjusting the string tension for different pitches.

MANANAGAT

ITIK - ITIK

(Cebuano for "fisherman") is a mimetic dance that depicts fisherman at sea. Dancers in long-line formations mimic women scooping water from the banca (canoe) with bamboo shells and men wielding wooden paddles.

Is a mimetic dance that depicts the movements of wading and flying itik (ducks). Dancers mimic the short swaying gait of waddling feet and the intense energy of close-crop flapping wings.

MANANGUETE

(coconut wine tapper) reenacts the stages of making tuba (coconut wine). The dance starts with movements that mimic the sharpening of the sanggot (scythe) and then proceeds to the cleaning of kawit (bamboo container), climbing of the coconut tree, extracting of the sap, and finally, the tasting of the tube.

LA BERDE

KURADANG

(Literally, green) is a courtship dance from a mountain settlement in Talamban, Cebu. In a series of quick steps and quick changes, the dance celebrates what is lush and full of life. The dance is performed by an interesting cast of two girls and a boy, instead of the usual pair of dancers.

Also known as curacha, is a lively wedding dance popular in Bohol, where it is performed to the accompaniment of rondalla, an ensemble of string instruments.

GAPNOD

(Cebuano for "flotsam") is a worship dance popular among the people of Negros Oriental. It is a reenactment of the discovery by a fisherman of the image of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of the town of Sibulan, Negros Oriental. The dance is one of rejoicing and merrymaking that ends in a fluvial procession in the coast.

SINULOG

SURTIDO CEBUANO

TINIKLING

(Cebuano word for "carried along by the current") is believed to have originated from a ritual dance for a pagan deity who was fished out from the sea. It was later Hispanized and transformed into a dance of worship for the Sto. Niño.

Is a square dance said to have originated in Bantayan, Cebu. It is a cobbling together of Spanish, Mexican, and French influences Along with indigenous elements. Surtido (literally, assortment) is performed by several pairs of dancers, with the head pair called cabeceras and the side pairs, costados , guiding the other dancers in varied quadrille formations.

FOLK DANCES

VISAYAN FOLK DANCES AND MUSIC

MADE BY:

Miriam Mae Catadman

Julia Therese Quinicot

Rasheed Bryan Osorio

Royce Matthew Castro

Joeje Aika Blanes

Arielle Roman

Carmelyn Magalang

TUGO

BUKTOT

Is a four-stringed instrument that creates a sweet and traditional sound which really captures the essence of the island and its people.

FOLK MUSIC