• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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