Quarter 4:

Exercise Program
(Festival Dance)
 Festival Dances
Festival Dances are cultural
dances performed to the strong
beats of percussion instruments
by a community of people sharing
the same culture usually done in
honor of a Patron Saint or as
thanksgiving for a bountiful
harvest.
Festival Dances may be religious
or secular in nature. But the best
thing about festivals is that they
add to the merry-making and
festivities of a place where they
are celebrated, the reason why
they are called festival dances
after all.
 Nature of Festival Dances
A. Cultural with Religious influence
These are dances
characterized by movements
showing reverence to a religious
icon believed to have interceded in
their personal life.
The Philippines where
majority of its people are
Catholics, celebrate fiestas
pompously and with so much
 Ati-Atihan Festivals (Aklan)
Is a feast held annually in January in
honor of the Santo Nino (Infant Jesus),
concluding on the third Sunday, in the
island and town of Kalibo, Aklan in the
Philippines. The name “Ati-atihan” means
“to be like Atis” or “make believe Ati’s.”
Aetas were the primary settlers in the
islands according to histoty books. They
too are the earliest settlers of Panay
Island where the province of Aklan is
situated.
 Sinulog Festivals (Cebu)
Historians say that Sinulog is the link
between the country’s pagan past and
its Christian present. Historical
accounts say before Portuguese
navigator came to Cebu on April 7,
1521 to plant the across on its shore
and claim the country for the King of
Spain, Sinulog was already danced by
natives in honor of their wooden idols
and anitos.
The festival is considered to be the
first of most popular festivals in the
Philippines with every celebration of
the festival routinely attracting around
1 to 2 million people from all over the
Philippines every year. Aside from
religious aspect of the festival, Sinulog
is also famous for its street parties,
usually happening at night before and
at the night of the main festival.
The word “Sinulog” comes from the
Cebuano adverb sulog which roughly
means “like water current movement”;
its describes the forward-backward
movement of the Sinulog dance.
Moriones Festivals (Marinduque)
 It is a colorful festival
celebrated on the island of
Marinduque in the Philippines. The
participants use morion masks to
depict the Roman soldiers and
Syrian mercenaries within the
story of the Passion of the Christ.
The mask was named after the
16th and 17th century Morion
Helmet.
 The Moriones refers to the masked
and costumed penitents who march
around the town from Holy Monday to
Easter Sunday scaring the kids, or
engaging in antics or surprises to draw
attention. This is a folk-religious festival
that re-enacts the story of Saint
Longinus, a Roman centurion who was
blind in one-eye. This week long
celebration starts on Holy Monday and
ends on Easter Sunday.
 Dinagyang Festivals (Iloilo)
Is a religious and cultural festival
in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the
fourth Sunday of January, or right after
the Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in
Aklan. It is held both to honor the
Santo Nino and to celebrate the arrival
of Panay of Malay settlers and the
subsequent selling of the island to
them by the Atis.
 Pahiyas Festivals (Quezon)
One of the country’s biggest and
most colourful harvest festival every
May 15th , along with the harvest
festivals of the towns of Tayabas,
Sariaya, Gumaca, and Tiaong.
These are the Philippines known
harvest festivals to honor San Isidro
Labrador, the patron saint of farmers.
 Known as “Pahiyas”, the festival
is deeply rooted in the traditional
celebration of the townsfolk in
thanksgiving for bounty harvest.
Decorations called “Kiping”, leaf-
shaped and multi-colored rice paste
wafers which are used to decorate
the facades of the homes along with
fruits and flower in nature.
B. Indigenous Influence/ Non-Religious
Festival
Filipinos who are known to be fun
loving people always find time to
celebrate any occasion be it personal,
family or even those that will require
the whole community to commemorate
an event or acknowledge an icon
which became the source of
inspiration, identity, or origin.
 It also showcases Filipino values
such as industry, cooperation and
unity. The celebration is performed
along the streets as dancers performed
rhythmical movements accompanied
by canned or indigenous musical
instruments. The dance culminates in a
grand presentation where dancers
display their skills with prowess,
excellent choreography and colorful
props in full tapestry.
 Lanzones Festivals (Camiguin)
It is as annual thanksgiving
celebration for Camiguin Island’s
bountiful harvest. The town of
Mambajao holds the feast during the
third week of October, in time for the
season of the tropical fruit lanzones.
 The province of Camiguin is known
for having the sweetest lanzones
among the abundant sources of the fruit
along the north-central coast of
Mindanao. The locals and tourists enjoy
this weeklong celebration with a line-up
of activities showcasing the richness
culture in Camiguin like street dancing,
grand lanzones parade, agri-cottage
industry products exhibits and beauty
pageants.
 Maskara Festival (Bacolod)
The Festival first began in 1980
during the period of crisis. The province
relied on sugar cane as its primary
agricultural crop, and the price of sugar
was at an all time low due to the
introduction of sugar substitutes like
high fructose (corn syrup) in the United
States.
 In the midst of these tragic events,
the city’s artists, local government and
civic groups decided to hold a festivals of
smiles, because the city at that time was
also known as the City of Smiles. They
reasoned that a festival was also a good
opportunity to pull the residents out of the
pervasive gloomy atmosphere. The initial
festival was therefore, a declaration by the
people of the city that no matter how
tough and bad times were, Bacolod city is
going pull through, survive and in the end,
triumph.
 Ibalong Festival (Legazpi City)
It is a non-religious festival in
Legazpi City, Albay and is held in
August. The festival celebrates the
epic story Ibalong who was
accompanied by three legendary
heroes, namely Baltog, Handyong,
Bantong and other ancient heroes.
 People parade in the streets
wearing masks and costumes to
imitate the appearances of the
heroes and the villains, potraying
the classic battles that made their
way into the history of Bicol. The
Ibalong festival aims to express
warmth and goodwill to all people;
visitors and tourists are encouraged
to celebrate with the Bicolanos.
 Kalilangan Festival (GenSan)
It is an annual festivity that
celebrated in General Santos City
and takes place in the month of
February. In the vernacular, kalilang
means to celebrate and what the
Kalilangan festival celebrates is the
tradition of sharing, hospitality,
altruism that is part of the cultural
heritage of Mindanao.
 It is also a celebratory ritual that
honors the ethnic rituals of Mindanao
such as local wedding ceremony and
other religious rituals. The friendly
competitions and the exchange of gifts
are also part of the tradition that the
Kalilangan Festival.
C. Film
This festival is a gathering of
artists, film makers, directors,
scriptwriters and other people involved
in film making where the motion
pictures captured in films which are
made to entertain, educate and inform
the audience, are shown on screen for
public viewing. Film ranging from
authorities is required to suit the film to
the viewing public.
 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)
It is an annual film festival held in
Manila. The festival, which runs from the 25th
of December to the first week of January in
the following year, focuses on locally
produced films.
The MMFF was established in the year
1975, during which Diligin Mo ng Hamog ang
Uhaw na Lupa (Water the Thirsty Earth with
Dew) by Augusto Buenaventura won the best
film award.
D. Flower Festival
This festival commemorates the season
of blooming as it pays tribute to the blooms
and lush found in a particular place. In some
places where flowers abound, this festival is
a way of expressing their gratitude by means
of floral offering. The floats which are
covered with beautiful flowers is one of the
highlights in the street parade while street
dancers garbed with costumes made of
flowers perform rhythmical dance steps along
the streets. An example of flower festival is
Panagbenga Festival
 Panagbenga Festival (Baguio City)
It is a month-long annual flower
festival occurring in Baguio, the summer
capital of the Philippines. The term is of
Malayo-Polynesian origin, meaning
“season of blooming”. 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.
 The festival includes floats that are
covered mostly with flowers not unlike those
used in Pasadena’s Rose Parade.
The festival also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired by
the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that
came from the Cordillera region. Aside from
economic boosts from tourism, the festival also
helped the younger generation of indigenous
people to rediscover their cultures old traditions.
The indigenous people were first wary with
government-led tourism because of the threat
that they will interfere or change their
communities.
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