Philippine Dance

Indigenous tradition

• close and familiar with environmen

• People ceate music while performing movements

• Started in indigenous rraditions as rituals

• Pagdwata, lapal among the subanon, etc etc (check more into this sa ppt)

Uses of dances

• geography

  • Rice culture — harvesting, planting, etc

  • Those close to the sea enact fishing

  • Depciting surroundings like birds and animals

  • Dance vocabulary - dance and movements you know when dancing

• Occupational dances — weaving, broom makin, beating

• Spiritual blessing — war dances, defense etc

• Narrating epics — darangel-singkil

Hispanic traditions

Syncretism of indigenous tradition and catholicism

• worship saitns thought they did not abandin style

• Folkloric expression adheres in the dances (check ppt)

• Social dances brough by the european way of life — rigodon de honor, mascota - weddings

  • Used to present ladied of legal age in the commnity

  • Debut

  • Minuet, catchucahm fandango, jota, pola, etc etc

  • Social dances in palcaes ad grand balls

American traditions

• Baudebil

• Vaudville bought new dances taught ti the Ph

• Fos trot, cakewalkm tap dance, charleston

New social danes in clubs and cabarets

• fox trot, cake walk, slow draG etc

Ballet and modern dance

• contemporary dance

• Ballet — graham technique

• Isadora duncan - one of the founder of modern dance

Ph during the thrid republic

• rise of mass media

• Dancing as back up of super stars

Filipinization

• process of making smth filipino in character or identity

• Sound is verys spanish or american but content is filipino

Filipinization in dance

• harnessing foreign forms in the expression of filo themes

• Ballt schools and performaces were transformed ti express native dane themes and styles

Marcos dictatorship

• press and broadcst media were shu down and critis o the govt were imprisoned

• Imelda used the art and culture to propagate shit

• Ph highschool of the artist

• Cover up the reality of the Ph

• Showed how lavish their lives were

Decentralization

• new opportunities of art in the regions and provinces

• Establishment of nationak commission f the arts

  • National committee of dance

• New dance companies

  • Ph ballet thetaer

  • Ballet manila

Tv shows

• intensified in the interest in social dance

• Noon time shows like eat bulaga - bac up dances

• Dance contests

New trnends

• new music = new dance trends

• Hiphop

• K-pop

• Dance flash mobs

• Rise of sports fans = cheerdance