FESTIVAL DANCE

Cultural dances that are performed to the strong beats of percussion

instruments by a community of people sharing the same culture is called
festival dances. It draw the people's culture by portraying the people's ways of
life through movements, costumes and implements inherent to their place of
origin. Festival dances are reflection of the unity of the Filipino community that
despite the economic, social, environmental, cultural and political challenges
we face every day, there can be no other race more resilient than ours.
2 KINDS OF FESTIVAL DANCES
A. RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL DANCES

done in honor of a Patron Saint

B. SECULAR/NON RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL DANCES

done for thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest.

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS

Religious Figure
Name of Festival Place of Origin Month of Celebration
Honoured

Sinulog Festival Cebu City Sto. Niño January

Dinagyang
Iloilo City Sto. Niño January
Festival

Ati-atihan
Kalibo, Aklan Sto. Niño January
Festival

Peñafrancia Bicol Virgin Mary September

Higantes Festival Angono, Rizal St. Clement November

Longganisa Vigan City,

Saint Paul January
Festival Ilocos Sur

Kinabayo July
Dapitan City St. James the Great
Festival

Pintados de Pasi Pintados City,

Sto. Niño March
Festival Iloilo

Pattarradday
Santiago City Señor San Tiago May
Festival

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 Religious Figure
Name of Festival Place of Origin Month of Celebration
Honoured

Sangyaw
Tacloban City Sto. Niño July
Festival

SECULAR/NON RELIGOUS FESTIVALS

Month of
Name of Festival Place of Origin Industry
Celebration

Bangus Festival Dagupan, City Milkfish Industry April to May

Bambanti Festival Isabela Scarecrow (farming) January

Mammangui
City of Ilagan Corn Industry May
Festival

Mango Festival Iba, Zambales Mango Industry April

Panagbenga
Baguio City Flower Industry February
Festival

Migratory Birds Egg

Ibon Ebon Festival Pampanga Industry February

Masskara Festival Bacolod City Mask (Sugar Industry) October

Koronadal Tinalak Cloth Weaving

T’nalak Festival January
Cotabato Industry

Ammungan Gathering of Tribal

Nueva Vizcaya May
Festival Industries

Binatbatan Festival Vigan, Ilocos Sur Weaving Industry May

LOCOMOTOR AND NON-LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS

A. Locomotor Movements - These are movements that allow you to move from
one point in space to another. It is derived from two words, "locos" which
means place and "motor" which means movement.

Preparatory movement

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. In executing a walk, observe that there's this moment when both

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 feet are in contact with the ground while one foot supports the weight and
transfers it to the other.

3. Run - Series of walks executed quickly in any direction wherein only one
foot stays on the ground while the other is off the ground.

4. Jump - This movement is simply described by having both feet lose its
contact with the ground. There are five ways to do it.

B. Non-Locomotor movements - These are movements that are performed in

one point in space without transferring to another point. They don't allow you to
move from one place to the other.

1. Flexion - It is the act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for
flexion is to bend. If you bend a joint, like your elbow or knee, you are
performing flexion.

2. Extension - This is the opposite of flexion. You are extending if you are
increasing the angle of a joint. Stretching is another word for extension.

3. Contraction - A muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows and

tightens using sufficient amount of energy in the execution.

4. Release - A muscle movement opposite to 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. This is to regain the energy exerted

into a body segment.

7. Rotation - To rotate is to move a body segment allowing it to complete a

circle with its motion. It's not only limited to circumduction which is done in
ball and socket joints. Rotation can also be done in wrists, waist, knees and
ankles.

8. Twist - To move a body segment from an axis halfway front or back or

quarter to the right or left as in the twisting of the neck allowing the head to
face right or left and the like.

9. Pivot - To change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the
body's weight allowing the body to face in a less than 360 degrees tum.

10. Turn - To move in a turning movement with a base of support, usually a

pointed foot, the other raised, while equilibrium is maintained until the
completion of the turn.

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