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Binasuan - Binasuan literally means "with the use of drinking glasses". This
dance originated in Pangasinan Province. It is a vibrant dance requiring
balancing skills. Glasses filled with rice wine are placed on the head and on
each hand and carefully maneuvered with graceful movements. This dance is
commonly performed in weddings, fiestas and special occasions.
Sublian - The term "sublian" comes from the term "subli", which is in turn
coined from two Tagalog words: "subsub" (falling on head) and "bali"
(broken).
Sublian dancers therefore appear to be lame and crooked throughout the
dance.
Sublian is a ritual dance of the natives of Bauan, Batangas. It is usually
performed during fiestas as a ceremonial worship dance to the town's
religious
icon, the holy cross.
Itik-itik - This dance started when a young woman named Kanang (short for
Cayetana), who happened to be the best performer in the province of
Surigao del
Norte, began to imitate the movements of an "itik" or a duck.
Maria Clara - Maria Clara is the main female character in Jose Rizal's Noli
Me
Tangere -a literary piece that features the colonial situation of the Filipinos
during the Spanish regime. She was characterized as a Filipina woman of
virtue
and nobility. This dance is a mix of Spanish gracefulness and customized
native
props, such as bamboo castanets and Asian fan. Female dancers wear Maria
Clara
dress that typifies the European style, while men are in barong tagalog, a
traditional Filipino embroidered long-sleeve shirt made of pineapple fiber.
Dinuyya - Cordillera Ifugao dance Famous in the Ifugao region, this dance is
regularly staged during festivals in Lagawe. Three kinds of gong instruments
such as, ordinary gongs, tobtob- a brass gong played by beating with open
palms
and, hibat, a kind of gong played by beating the inner surface with a
softwood
are used in this dance.
Binaylan - Agusan This is a ritual dance, which originated from the Bagobo
tribe
living in the central uplands of Mindanao, imitating the movements of a hen,
her
banog or baby chicks, and a hawk. The hawk is sacred and is believed that it
has
the power over the well being of the tribe. The hawk tries to capture one of
the
baby chicks and is killed by the hunters.
Malakas at maganda - Leyte A Tribal dance. This dance depicts the birth of
the
first man and woman who came out of a bamboo tree. It has been said that
the
woman named "maganda" (beautiful) and the first man "malakas" (strong)
are the
parents of the whole community in the island. The dance demonstrates how
a bird
discovered the noise coming from the inside of the bamboo and perched
until it
opened. A man and a woman came out of the big bamboo tree and, the birth
of this
legendary couple is amusingly interpreted in this dance.