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PHILIPPINE ART
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Contemporary Art:
Contemporary art includes, and develops from, Postmodern art, which is itself a
successor to Modern art.
In vernacular English, “modern” and “contemporary” are synonyms, resulting in some
conflation of the terms “modern art” and “contemporary art” by non-specialists.
1. Choreography
Contemporary dance:
-is a popular form of dance which developed during the middle portion of the
twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominating
performance genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world,
-with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and western Europe. Although
originally informed by and borrowing from classical, modern, and jazz styles, it has
since come to incorporate elements from many styles of dance.
-but due to its popularity amongst trained dancers and some overlap in movement
type, it is often perceived as being closely related to modern dance, ballet and other
classical concert dance styles.
The flat gong commonly known as gangsaand played by the groups in the Cordillera
region of the bossed gongs played among the Islam and animist groups in the Southern
Philippines.
2. Kalaleng or Tongali(nose flute) Because the kalaleng is long and has a narrow
internal diameter, it is possible to play different harmonics through overblowing—even with
the rather weak airflow from one nostril.
o Southern Islands: