PE: Festival Dances, Locomotor and Non-Locomotor Movements

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering Philippine religious and secular festival dances, locomotor and non-locomotor body movements, and fundamental folk dance step patterns.

Festival Dances

Social dances performed to the beat of percussion instruments, often reflecting the culture, traditions, and way of life of a community.

Religious Festivals

Festivals held in honor of a religious figure, patron saint, or icon as an expression of faith.

Secular Festivals

Non-religious festivals held for thanksgiving, cultural celebrations, local industries, or a successful harvest.

Sinulog Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Cebu City every January in honor of the Sto. Niño.

Dinagyang Festival

A religious festival held in Iloilo City every January honoring the Sto. Niño.

Ati-atihan Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Kalibo, Aklan every January in honor of the Sto. Niño.

Peñafrancia Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Bicol every September in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Higantes Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Angono, Rizal every November in honor of Saint Clement.

Longganisa Festival

A festival celebrated in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur every January honoring Saint Paul.

Kinabayo Festival

A religious festival held in Dapitan City, Iloilo every July in honor of James the Greater.

Pintados de Pasi

A religious festival celebrated in Passi City, Iloilo every March honoring the Sto. Niño.

Pattarraday Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Santiago City every May in honor of Señor San Tiago.

Sangyaw Festival

A religious festival celebrated in Tacloban City every July in honor of the Sto. Niño.

Bangus Festival

A secular festival celebrated in Dagupan, Pangasinan from April to May honoring the milkfish aquaculture industry, featuring culinary competitions and the 'Gilon-Gilon' street grilling party.

Panagbenga Festival

A secular festival held in Baguio City every February meaning 'Season of Blooming' in Kankanaey, created in 1995 to honor the flower industry with fresh flower floats following the 1990 earthquake.

Bambanti Festival

A secular festival held in Isabela every January celebrating farming harvests and honoring the scarecrow ('bambanti' in Ilocano) as a guardian of agricultural fields.

Binatbatan Festival

A secular festival held in Vigan, Ilocos Sur in May celebrating traditional Abel Iloco weaving, where dancers use bamboo sticks to mimic 'batbat' (beating cotton pods).

Mammangui Festival

A secular festival held in the City of Ilagan in May honoring corn farmers, derived from the Ybanag word 'mangui' meaning corn.

Mango Festival

A secular festival established in 1999 and held in Iba, Zambales every April to celebrate and promote sweet mangoes.

Ibon Ebon Festival

A secular festival celebrated in Candaba, Pampanga every February honoring migratory birds visiting Candaba swamps alongside the local egg production industry.

MassKara Festival

A secular festival in Bacolod City held in October, founded in 1980 during a sugar crisis and maritime tragedy, where dancers wear smiling masks to declare resilience.

T'nalak Festival

A secular festival held in Koronadal City, South Cotabato every July, honoring the sacred tri-color abaca cloth woven by T'boli 'Dreamweavers' from dream-inspired patterns.

Ammungan Festival

A secular festival held in Nueva Vizcaya every May celebrating tribal industries and the provincial founding anniversary, derived from the Gaddang word for 'gathering'.

Locomotor Movements

Movements that allow travel from one point in space to another, derived from the words 'locos' (place) and 'motor' (movement).

Step

The basic preparatory locomotor movement defined as the transfer of weight equally distributed to both feet, then fully shifted to one foot.

Walk

A locomotor movement consisting of a series of steps executed alternately by both feet in any direction, where both feet briefly contact the ground simultaneously during weight transfer.

Run

A locomotor movement consisting of a series of walks executed quickly in any direction where only one foot stays on the ground while the other is in the air.

Jump

A locomotor movement described by having both feet lose contact with the ground, executed across five combinations of taking off and landing on one or both feet.

Non-Locomotor Movements

Movements performed in one point in space without transferring or traveling to another point.

Flexion

A non-locomotor movement that decreases the angle of a joint, commonly referred to as bending.

Extension

A non-locomotor movement that increases the angle of a joint, commonly referred to as stretching; the opposite of flexion.

Contraction

A muscle movement performed when a muscle shortens, narrows, and tightens using a sufficient amount of energy.

Release

A muscle movement opposite to contraction, executed when the body lets go or releases from a shortening movement.

Collapse

A non-locomotor movement characterized by deliberately dropping the exertion of energy into a body segment.

Recover

A non-locomotor movement opposite to collapse, defined as regaining energy exerted into a body segment.

Rotation

A non-locomotor movement where a body segment completes a circle with its motion, performed in ball-and-socket joints as well as the wrists, waist, knees, and ankles.

Twist

A non-locomotor movement involving moving a body segment from an axis halfway front or back, or a quarter turn to the right or left.

Pivot

Changing the position of the feet or weight-bearing body part allowing the body to face a new direction in a turn of less than 360 degrees.

Turn

Moving in a turning motion with a base of support (typically a pointed foot while maintaining equilibrium) until full rotation is achieved.

Close Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R sideward (count 1), Close Step L to R (count 2).

Bleking

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R in place (count 1), Heel place L in front (count 2).

Touch Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R sideward (count 1), Point L in front of R (count 2).

Change Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R (count 1), Close Step L to R (count and), step R in place (count 2).

Cross Change Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Cross R over L (count 1), step L sideward (count and), step R in place (count 2).

Hop Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R sideward (count 1), hop R in place (count 2).

Mincing

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Point L in place (count and), Step R (count 1), Point L in place (count and), Step R (count 2).

Cross Step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Step R across L (count 1), Step L sideward L (count 2).

Heel-toe, Change step

A basic dance step performed to the counting rhythm: Heel place R sideward (count 1), point L close to R (count 2), change step with the R.