PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE

PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE

Multiple Choice

How do you portray nationalism using DANCE?

• By performing Folk Dances

• By integrating new culture in folk dances

• By appreciating Philippine Dance Histories

• By being born in the Philippines

INTRODUCTION

• The origin of Philippine folk

  dancing includes influences from immigrants and conquerors while maintaining distinctly Filipino roots. Philippine folk dancing is a replication of daily life in past and the delightful modern spectators to this date. It mirrors the culture and tradition of the Filipinos. It has also been a source of culture identify of the people.

INTRODUCTION

• There is no exact date or time of how Philippine folk dance started. However, there have been islanders who have been dancing. The Philippine mythology is filled with many different gods and goddesses that Filipinos prayed or expressed their gratitude for the numerous natural occurrences like rain and harvests.  

Multiple Choice

Early Filipinos view dancing as a physical practice and they performed dances for a successful harvest, a triumphant war, and a healthy voyage or recovery from sickness.

• True

• False

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When was the folk dance started?

• 1600

• no exact date

INTRODUTION

• In this country, dance is as diverse as the culture intermingling in the archipelago. There are variety of dances in terms of its forms and dynamics that develop along with time situation and experiences. Many of the Philippine folk dances were performed during festivals and remembrances of past military victories, and are performed continuously at celebrations of births and weddings in modern times.  

Open Ended

What is folk dance?

What is Folk Dance?

• It is a form of dance developed by a group of people that reflects the traditional life of the people of a certain country or region.

   

Objectives

• 1. To foster patriotism and nationalism through the study of our dance.

  2. To arouse better appreciation of Philippine music and folk dances.

  3. To provide through dancing, a healthful form of relaxation and recreation.

  
  

Objectives

To develop a graceful and rhythmic coordination of body movements that will improve posture.

5. To preserve for posterity, folk dances and music indigenous to the different regions of the Philippines.

6. To demonstrate the growth of Filipino culture through the evolution of Philippine dances.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is does not belong to the objectives of folk dance?

• To foster patriotism and nationalism through the study of our dance.

• enhance the cultural destruction demonstrated in various folk dances aesthetically, morally, and physically.

• To develop a graceful and rhythmic coordination of body movements that will improve posture.

Value and Importance of Philippine Folk

Value - Philippine folk dance helps keep the people connected to their ancestry and their traditions. Folk dance helps to preserve the cultural unity of the people 

Value and Importance of Philippine Folk dance

Importance - People think folk dances are important because they help keep a culture alive. People have been doing folk dances for hundreds of years, and there is value keeping that tradition alive.

Folk dances are important because they preserve the Philippine culture and pass it on to the next generation. They are a uniting force to the Philippine people.  

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Philippine folk dance helps keep the people connected to their ancestry and their traditions. Folk dance helps to preserve the cultural unity of the people

• TRUE

• FALSE

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People think folk dances are not important because it doesn't apply to todays generations.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Characteristics of Philippine Folk dances:

• 1. In general, dancers stand apart.

  2. There is little, if any, bodily contact.

  3. Most of the dances are done by pairs or couples.

  4. Hand movements play an important part.

  
  

Characteristics of Philippine Folk dances:

• 5. Most dances are in long formation.

  6. Most dances begin and end with “saludo.”

  7. Dances from the lowlands have more foreign elements those found in the uplands.

  8. War dances are found among non-Christian tribes.

   

   

   

  
  

Multiple Choice

What Folk dance category shows imaginary combat or duel with the use of fighting equipment like the bolo and spear? ex: sagayan

• Comic Dance

• Mimetic Dance

• War dance

Multiple Choice

A Dance category performed as part of the rituals and ceremonies of a certain tribe or group of people.

• Festival dance

• Mimetic dance

• Ceremonial

Multiple Choice

What category of dance depicts the means of livelihood of the Filipino people?

• Festival dance

• Mimetic dance

• Occupational dance

• Social amenities dance

Open Ended

Write the Philippine folk dance you have dance before.

Open Ended

Based from your previous response, that dance is classified as what?

Multiple Choice

The elegance of the body and arm movements of foreign dances fascinated the Filipinos, so they adopted these.

• Pre-Colonial Period

• Spanish Colonial Period

• American Colonial Period

Multiple Choice

Its presence felt in the Philippines through “bodabil” dancing, a term which comes from the French “voix de ville”--- street songs, which was dancing in the variety show which consisted mainly of popular and theatrical dances

• Pre-Colonial Period

• Spanish Colonial Period

• American Colonial Period

Multiple Choice

Dances during this period were considered by some historians, anthropologists, and researchers as dance in its purest form because this particular dance form has not been refined, developed, trained, or guided by an artist.

• Pre-Colonial Period

• Spanish Colonial Period

• American Colonial Period

REVIEW QUESTIONS!

Are you ready? hehe

Multiple Select

Right arm is raised above the head and left arm is maintained in second position. Right heel close to the left in step.

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• 4th position

• 5th position

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Arms are opened sideward with rounded elbows. Feet apart about one foot away from each other.

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• 4th position

• 5th position

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Both arms are raised above the head with rounded elbows. Right heel close to the left big toe.

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• 4th position

• 5th position

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Both arms are raised in front of chest with rounded elbows. Heels together, 45 degrees open.

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• 4th position

• 5th position

Multiple Choice

Right arm is maintained above the head and left arm is placed in first position. Right foot placed in front of the left foot about one foot away from each other.

• 1st position

• 2nd position

• 3rd position

• 4th position

Multiple Choice

Point R foot in front (ct.1), step R close to L (ct.2).

• Touch step

• Close step

Multiple Choice

Step R foot in front (ct. 1), point L foot in front (ct. 2)

• Touch step

• Step-Point

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