Festival When Nature/s of Origin
Celebrated Dance/s
Panagbenga Festival Celebrated every Panagbenga is not a
first of February religious gathering but a
cultural festival. The
festival also includes
street dancing, presented
by dancers clad in flower-
inspired costumes, that is
inspired by the Bendian,
an Ibaloi dance of
celebration that came
from the Cordilleras.
Dinagyang Festival Celebrated every Dinagyang Festival is one
fourth Sunday of of the religious festivities
January in the Philippines that
celebrates the feast of
the Santo Niño and the
pact between the Datus
and locals. It’s
performances are
anchored on a folkloric
story about the Barter of
Panay. The story revolves
around how 10 Bornean
datus and their families
fled a tyrannical ruler in
Borneo early in the 13th
century and sailed
towards the island of
Panay. When they
arrived, the Borneans
bargained with the native
Atis to occupy the
lowlands. To celebrate
the barter, the Borneans
painted their bodies with
soot and danced with the
Atis.
Kadayawan Festival Celebrated every While it’s celebrated
third week of without the religious
August. factor, the origin of
Kadayawan Festival is the
pagan belief of the ethnic
tribes of DavaoThe
Kadayawan Festival
Additional
Facts
Baguio City The term “Panagbenga”
comes from a
Kankanaey term
meaning “a season for
blossoming, a time for
flowering.” This flower
festival in Baguio
reflects the history,
traditions, and values of
the city and the
Cordillera.
Ilo – Ilo City Dinagyang is a
Hiligaynon word
extrapolated from
dagyang meaning
“merrymaking” It
celebrates the feast of
the Infant Jesus and the
pact between the Datus
and the locals.
Davao Kadayawan is a native
expression in the
Dabawnon tongue. It’s
derived from the word
“madayaw” which
means good, valuable,
and superior. Hence,
 dance on the streets is Kadayawan Festival
the most-awaited and Tagalog means
main highlight of the pasasalamat at
event. Contingents from pagpapahalaga. It is
various parts of the celebration of life, a
Mindanao display their thanksgiving for the
award-winning gifts of nature, the
choreography while wealth of culture, and
showcasing their bounties of harvest and
creativity through their serenity of living.
colorful and extravagant
Kadayawan Festival
dance costumes.
Moriones Festival There is no exact The penitents wear Marinduque Moriones is derived
Moriones Festival Moriones Festival from the word
date of celebration costume composed of “Morion” which means
as it depends on the masks and costumes mask or visor hence,
month when the the mask in the
similar to those worn
Holy Week is Moriones Festival
by the Roman soldiers
observed. Usually, costume. It is a part of
Holy Week is as a way of atonement the medieval Roman
observed either in for their sins armor which covers the
the month of March committed or for other face. Moriones, on the
or April. If that’s the similar reasons. The other hand, refers to
case then, Moriones penitents roam around the  masked and
Festival month is the town for the day costumed men and
celebrated in the throughout the women penitents who
said season. week.The Moriones march around the town
Festival is a re- for seven days re-
enacting the search for
enactment of the
Longinus.
biblical story of a
Roman soldier whose
one eye was blind
named Longinus.
Pino, Therese G.