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Contemporary Arts Festivals and Dance Techniques

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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1.

Is a feast held in honor of the Santo Niño held annually in January concluding on third Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.

a)

Ati-Atihan Festival

b)

Dinagyang Festival

c)

Panagbenga Festival

2.

An annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu.

a)

Ati-Atihan

b)

Dinagyang

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Sinulog

3.

A religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. It is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.

a)

Dinagyang

b)

Ati-atihan

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Sinulog

4.

A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.

a)

Sinulog

b)

Ati-atihan

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Dinagyang

5.

A Bukidnon ethnic-cultural festival that takes place from the last week of February to the first week of March. It can mean a datukship ritual, a wedding ceremony, a thanksgiving festival during harvest time, a peace pact, or any number of these together.

a)

Kaamulan

b)

Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites

c)

Turumba

d)

Carabao

6.

An annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. The men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks , a part of the medieval Roman armor which covers the face.

a)

Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites

b)

Turumba

c)

Pahiyas

d)

Moriones

7.

Lucban celebrates the Festival in honor of the patron saint of farmers, St. Isidore. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried.

a)

Panagbenga

b)

Pahiyas

c)

Dinagyang

d)

Sinulog

8.

An annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting “Madayaw”, from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful.

a)

Pintados

b)

Penafrancia Fluvial

c)

Kadayawan

d)

MassKara

9.

A week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental province. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.

a)

Penafrancia Fluvial

b)

Pahiyas

c)

Higantes

d)

MassKara

10.

The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.

a)

Giant Lanterns

b)

Higantes

c)

Turumba

d)

Carabao

11.

It is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures.

a)

A. Festival

b)

B. Wedding

c)

C. Birthday

12.

Give the place where the MassKara Festival celebrated.

a)

A. Cebu

b)

B. Baguio

c)

C. Bacolod

d)

D. Quezon

13.

What is the exact date where the people in Lucban, Quezon celebrate the Pahiyas Festival?

a)

A. 10th day of May

b)

B. 15th day of May

c)

C. 10th day of March

d)

D. 15th day of March

14.

Why is Festival important?

a)

A. They guarantee comfort in the coming year.

b)

B. Express gratitude for having a good harvest.

c)

C. Celebrate their culture and traditions.

d)

D. All of the above.

15.

A festival from Davao City held every third week in the month of August.

a)

A. Sinulog

b)

B. Dinagyang

c)

C. Kadayawan

d)

D. Ati-atihan

16.

The word" pahiyas" comes from the word "payas" which means _____________.

a)

A. to smile

b)

B. to paint

c)

C. to decorate

d)

D. to celebrate

17.

Philippine festivals are famous for their colorful and artistic costumes, masks, and props. It is divided into religious festivals and non-religious festivals.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

18.

A festival in Pulilan, Bulacan held on May 14-15. Paying respect to Saint Isidore the Worker- the patron saint of farmers- and the Filipino farmer’s work companions- the carabaos or water buffalos. In this festival, carabaos are paraded on the streets and made to kneel at the end of the parade.

a)

Carabao

b)

Pahiyas

19.

A religious parade by the Catholics devotees of St. Helena. It is held every month of May and at the end of the month is the Flores De Mayo. It is a procession where the Reyna Elena, escorted by a little boy representing Emperor Constantine and the sagala or the court of the queen walk under arches decorated with colorful flowers and decorations.

a)

Moriones

b)

Santacruzan

20.

Which of the following is a Sinulog Festival?

a)
b)
c)
d)
21.

A choreographic form in which a dance or movement sequence is performed in a backward order (like a rewound video).

a)

Contrast

b)

Retrograde

c)

Reversal

d)

Dynamic

22.

What is this an example of?

a)

Retrograde

b)

Contrast

c)

Levels

d)

Motif

23.

In a group dance, performing exactly the same movements at exactly the same time. In a solo, copying movements but in the opposite way, as though in a reflection.

a)

Motif

b)

Repetition

c)

Copying

d)

Mirroring

24.

Dancers performing similar steps in a successive manner

a)

unison

b)

canon

c)

levels

d)

shadowing

25.

technique where a dancer is standing behind another while doing the same steps

a)

unison

b)

canon

c)

levels

d)

shadowing