This document provides information about festival dances in the Philippines. It begins by defining festival dances as cultural dances performed by communities to honor patron saints or harvests. It then discusses why Filipinos have festival dances, which is primarily to celebrate unity and bountiful harvests. The document outlines the benefits of festivals and lists two types - religious and secular. Numerous examples of specific festival dances are then defined, including details about their origin location, honored religious figure if applicable, and month of celebration. The document concludes by describing locomotor and non-locomotor dance movements.

1. FESTIVAL
DANCES
By Ramy Santiago

2. Objectives:
1. Undertakes physical activity and physical
fitness assessments.
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2. Executes the skills involved in the dance.
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3. FESTIVAL DANCES
- Are cultural dance perfomed 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 in thanksgiving of a bountiful
harvest.
-It draws people’s culture by portraying the
people’s ways of life through movements,
costumes and implements inherent to their
place of origin.

4. WHY DO FILIPINOS HAVE FESTIVAL DANCES?
Filipinos do festivals primarily to celebrate:
1. To celebrate our unity amidst the diversity of
cultures.
2. To celebrate our industry bringing about a
bountiful harvest.

5. BENEFITS OF DOING
FESTIVALS:
1. Festivals have been a consistent crowd-
producing activity leading to up-liftment of
a community’s economy due to it’s tourism
and entertainment value.
2. It attracts foreign and domestic tourists to
visit a place eventually leading to the
elevation of the Filipino’s quality life.
3. It reflects the unity of a Filipino community.

6. 2 TYPES OF FESTIVAL DANCES:
1.RELIGIOUS
- a festival celebrated in honor of a certain religious
icon.
2. SECULAR OR NON- RELIGIOUS
- a festival celebrated as a thansgiving or
celebration of people’s industry and bountiful harvest.

7. RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS

8. Name of Festival
Dance:
SINULOG
Place of Origin:
CEBU CITY
Religious Figure
Honored:
STO. NINO
Month of Celebration:
JANUARY

9. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure Honored:
Month of Celebration:
DINAGYANG
ILO-ILO CITY
STO. NINO
JANUARY

10. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure Honored:
Month of Celebration:
ATI-ATIHAN
KALIBO, AKLAN
STO. NINO
JANUARY

11. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure Honored:
Month of
Celebration:
LONGGANISA
VIGAN CITY,
ILOCOS SUR
SAINT PAUL
JANUARY

12. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure
Honored:
Month of Celebration:
PINTADOS DE PASSI
PINTADOS CITY, ILOILO
STO. NINO
MARCH

13. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure
Honored:
Month of Celebration:
PATTARRADDAY
SANTIAGO CITY
SENOR SAN
TIAGO
MAY

14. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure
Honored:
Month of Celebration:
SANGYAW
TACLOBAN CITY
STO. NINO
JULY

15. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure
Honored:
Month of Celebration:
KINABAYO
DAPITAN CITY
JAMES THE
GREAT
JULY

16. Name of Festival
Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure
Honored:
Month of
Celebration:
PENAFRANCIA
BICOL
VIRGIN MARY
SEPTEMBER

17. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Religious Figure Honored:
Month of Celebration:
HIGANTES
ANGONO, RIZAL
SAINT CLEMENT
NOVEMBER

18. SECULAR/NON-
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS

19. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
BAMBANTI
ISABELA
SCARECROW
JANUARY

20. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
BANGUS
DAGUPAN,
PANGASINAN
MILKFISH
APRIL-MAY

21. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
MAMMANGUI
ILIGAN CITY
CORN
MAY

22. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
MANGO
IBA, ZAMBALES
MANGO
APRIL

23. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
PANAGBENGA
BAGUIO CITY
FLOWER
FEBRUARY

24. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
IBON EBON
PAMPANGA
MIGRATORY BIRDS
EGG
FEBRUARY

25. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
MASSKARA
BACOLOD CITY
MASK(SUGAR)
OCTOBER

26. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
T’NALAK
SOUTH
COTABATO
TINALAK CLOTH WEAVING
JULY

27. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
AMMUNGAN
NUEVA VIZCAYA
GATHERING OF
TRIBAL INDUSTRIES
MAY

28. Name of Festival Dance:
Place of Origin:
Month of Celebration:
Industry:
BINATBATAN
VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR
WEAVING
MAY

29. LOCOMOTOR
MOVEMENTS
- refers to body movements that
move the body from one place
to another. They cause the body
to travel.

30. THESE MOVEMENTS INCLUDE:
1. STEP
- This is the basis of all locomotor movements.
- It prepares you to move in any direction you wish to
go.
- It is defined as transfer of weight from one foot to
the other.
2. WALK
- Series of steps executed by both of your feet
alternately in any direction.

31. 3. RUN
- Series of walks executed quickly in any direction
wherein only one foot stays at the ground while
the other is off the ground.
4. JUMP
- This movement is simply described by having
both feet lose it’s contact with the ground.

32. NON-LOCOMOTOR
MOVEMENTS
- They are movements of certain
body parts, or even the whole
body, without causing the body
to travel.

33. THESE MOVEMENTS INCLUDE:
1. FLEXION
- Another term for flexion is to bend.
2. EXTENSION
- Stretching is another term for extension.
3. CONTRACTION
- A muscle movement done when it shortens,
narrows and tightens using sufficient amount of
energy in the execution.

34. 4. RELEASE
- The opposite of contraction done when it let
goes or let looses of being held into a shortening
movement.
5. COLLAPSE
- To deliberately drop the exertion of energy into a
body segment.
6. RECOVER
- The opposite of collapse.

35. 7. ROTATION
8. TWIST
9. PIVOT
- A rotation is a circular movement.
- To move a body segment from an axis halfway front
or back or quarter to the right or left.
- To change the position of the feet or any body part
that carries the body’s weight in a less than 360
degrees.
10. TURN
- To move in a turning movement with a base of suppo