2. RURAL DANCES
• Shows laughter, festivities
• Performed in fiestas to
honor patron saints
• give homage to the barrio's
namesake for a good
harvest, health, &
perseverance
• Indigenous materials,
clapping, rondalla,
percussion instruments
Reflects the simple life of the
people in the barrio
Depicts common work, daily
activities of the peasants
4. FROM THE PHILIPPINES PERFORMED BY MALE
DANCERS.
THE NAME OF THE DANCE MEANS "LATIK-MAKER",
FROM LATIK, A COCONUT PRODUCT THAT IS USED IN
FILIPINO COOKING. THE DANCE IS ALSO A WAR
DANCE DEPICTING A FIGHT BETWEEN MOROS AND
CHRISTIANS OVER THE LATIK.
THE DANCERS PERFORM THE DANCE BY HITTING ONE
COCONUT SHELL WITH THE OTHER; SOMETIMES THE
ONES ON THE HANDS, THE ONES ON THE BODY, OR
THE SHELLS WORN BY ANOTHER PERFORMER, ALL IN
TIME TO A FAST DRUMBEAT.
MAGLALATIK
6. • origins coming from the fishing town of Lingayen in
Pangasinan. Following their good catch,
• fishermen will usually celebrate by drinking wine and
dancing, and by swinging and circling with the lighted
lamps on the hands of the dancers.
• The graceful & lively moves of the dancers gave the
name ‘Oasiwas‘ which in the local dialect is known as
‘swinging‘.
OASIWAS
8. SAUT SA RARUG
• Salut sa Rarug is dance portraying the uses of
a bamboo container, primarily in fetching
water.
• discovered by dance researcher Romulo P. Bugna
in Agtambo, Passi, Iloilo. It was later presented
during the 2008 National Folk Dance Workshop in
Olongapo City last May 2008.