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NAME: PICTURES:
Ramon Arevalo Obusan

BIRTHPLACE:

Born on June 16, 1938 in Camarites, Norte

Bicol

FATHER: PICTURES:

Praxedes Obusan

MOTHER: PICTURES;

Josefina Arevalo

SIBLINGS:
He has 15 siblings and he is the Eldest

ACHIEVEMENTS

Patnubay ng Kalinangan award by the City of Manila in 1992

Gawad CCP Para sa Sining award in 1993
National Artist of the Philippines
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY

Promotes Philippine traditional dance and cultural work.

 Helps went to teach courses in Fisheries in Aklan Polytechnic Institute
 an internationally acclaimed dancer
 dance anthropologist
 choreographer
 artistic director
 founded the Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group
He was declared as a National Artist of the Philippines in May 2006

BIOGRAPHY/LIFE STORY:
Ramon Obusan is a bicolano. He studied in University of the Philippines where he
graduated with a BS in Fisheries. In 1998, Obusan was commissioned by the Department of
Tourism in designing floats themed with historical significance during the parade for the
centennial celebration of the country's independence.
Apart from being a maestro in dancing, Obusan was also a collector of Filipiniana
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wardrobe, an authority in folk rituals and a expert in fisheries.

was a *dancer, choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. He achieved phenomenal
success in Philippine dance and cultural work. He was also acknowledged as a researcher,
archivist and documentary filmmaker who broadened and deepened the Filipino understanding
of his own cultural life and expressions. Through the Ramon Obusan Folkloric Grop (ROFG),
he had affected cultural and diplomatic exchanges using the multifarious aspects and
dimensions of the art of dance. For over thirty years the ROFG has created a niche in the
world of dance as forerunner of Philippine dance performed closest to its original form. The
ROFG has been one of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' leading resident companies since
1986 and has presented over a thousand performances in the Philippines and abroad.
HISTORICAL VALUE
Shares the unique way of life of our Philippine ancestors, through indigenous music, song and
dance
The dance is one of the many human experiences which cannot be suppressed. Dancing has
existed at all times, and among all peoples and races. The dance is a form of expression given
to man just as speech, philosophy, painting or music.

CULTURAL VALUE
Preserving indigenous Philippine art forms in music. Dance costumes and folklore and
restructuring and enhancing the art forms to suit the demands of contemporary theatre and
reates awareness and advocates for Philippine indigenous people’s culture traditions and
stories through attire music and dance. Obusan wrote Dances of the Philippines, a compilation
of all the researches he has done on Philippine folk and ritual dances. He also has the largest
collection of videos on Philippine dances.

REFERENCES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Obusan
http://gwhs-stg02.i.gov.ph/~s2govnccaph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/national-
artists-of-the-philippines/ramon-obusan/
https://prezi.com/oidyfcz5zzqe/ramon-obusan/?fallback=1