• is home to several folk dances such as Tinikling, Pandanggo, Cariñosa, and Subli. Dance has integrated itself in Philippine society over the course of...
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    Cariñosa (category Use Philippine English from October 2022)
    loving or affectionate) is a Philippine dance of colonial-era origin from the Maria Clara suite of Philippine folk dances, where the fan or handkerchief...
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  • The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines. A multi-awarded company, both nationally and internationally...
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    Tinikling (category Use Philippine English from October 2022)
    Tinikling is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated prior to Spanish colonialism in the area. The dance involves at least two people beating...
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  • Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Vol. 5: Philippine Dance. Manila: Cultural Center of...
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    Pangalay (category Use Philippine English from January 2023)
    is also the most distinctively Asian of all the southern Philippine dances because dancers must have dexterity and flexibility of the shoulders, elbows...
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    two types of Philippine folk dance, stemming from traditional indigenous influences and Spanish influence.: 173  Although native dances had become less...
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  • of leading dance groups. It quickly won recognition as a resident ballet company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The Philippine Ballet Theatre...
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    Leonor Orosa-Goquingco (category Central Philippine University alumni)
    directed, danced and choreographed. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of...
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    Pandanggo (category Use Philippine English from November 2022)
    is a Philippine folk dance which has become popular in the rural areas of the Philippines. The dance evolved from Fandango, a Spanish folk dance, which...
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  • Bayani Casimiro (category Filipino male dancers)
    September 2015. Marge Enriquez (1994). "Philippine Dance". In Nicanor Tiongson (ed.). CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Vol. V (1st ed.). Manila: Cultural...
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  • Ramon Obusan (category Filipino male dancers)
    Filipino dancer, choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. Obusan is credited for his work in promoting Philippine traditional dance and cultural...
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    while dancing with Ballet Philippines. In 1988, she became a ballerina of the Philippine Ballet Theater (PBT) and had since remained Philippine-based...
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  • Aira Bermudez (category Filipino dance musicians)
    Bermudez (born September 6, 1983), is a Filipina dancer and actress. She is the former leader of Philippine dance group, the SexBomb Girls after the succession...
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    did not provide evidence that the dance was originally a royal dance, the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company, to which she later presented...
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    Maglalatik (category Use Philippine English from October 2022)
    Kanami (October 2, 2017). Ramon Obusan, Philippine Folkdance and Me: From the Perspective of a Japanese Dancer. Anvil Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-971-27-3051-1...
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    within the capacity of even an average singer. Dance music is an important form of traditional Philippine music. The best form of preserved music are those...
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    incorporating music, street dancing, and body painting. By the 1960s, the festival became even more commercialized as the Philippine Department of Tourism heavily...
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    reviving the ancient dance ritual, which is still practised to this day. In his 1887 novel Noli Me Tángere, José Rizal, the Philippine national hero, has...
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  • The Philippine All-Stars is a Filipino Hip-hop dance group from the Philippines and the pioneer of Pinoy Hip-hop. They won the 2006 and 2008 World Hip...
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    Francisca Reyes-Aquino (category Filipino female dancers)
    – November 21, 1983) was a Filipino folk dancer and academic noted for her research on Philippine folk dance. She is a recipient of the Republic Award...
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  • A street-dancing competition highlights the event. Lancion, Conrado M. Jr. (1995). "The Provinces; Camiguin". Fast Facts about Philippine Provinces....
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  • National symbols of the Philippines (category Use Philippine English from February 2023)
    national symbols of the Philippines consist of symbols that represent Philippine traditions and ideals and convey the principles of sovereignty and national...
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  • 18 bills. A "blue bill" in the context of this ceremony refers to the Philippine one thousand peso note, which is blue. Lastly, there are the (optional)...
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  • Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed by Lino Brocka. It explores the realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by...
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  • In the Name of Love (2011 film) (category Philippine dance films)
    better days. An unlikely opportunity comes up when he is assigned to be the dance instructor for the upcoming Governor's Ball of the powerful political family...
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    Lucrecia Reyes Urtula (category Philippine Women's University alumni)
    author and researcher on ethnic dance. She was the founding director of the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company and was named National Artist...
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    Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (category Philippine Women's University alumni)
    theatrical presentations, and was closely involved with the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. She was also a former president of the Cultural Center of...
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  • Budots (category Electronic dance music genres)
    appeared in Philippine mainstream media in 2008 when Ruben Gonzaga, the winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2, performed the dance steps on national...
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  • aims to redeem Philippine culture, dance and music for the use in Christian worship and liturgy with its ministry, KALOOB Philippine Dance and Music Ministry...
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