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MAPEH
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Fourth Quarter
Describe the Nature and
Background of Festival Dance

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 Read and Understand

Festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristics

aspect of that community and its religion or culture. It is often serve to fulfill specific common purposes
especially with regards to ceremony or thanking to gods and goddesses.

In this module, you will be provided with varied yet selected activities about the Nature and
Background of Festival Dance for you to accomplish at your own pace. You will be enabled to process
the contents of the learning resource to draw out your understanding about the topic.

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human

movement. This movement has artistic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by
performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its
choreography, by its collection of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.

Dance is an active recreational and health-promoting physical activity which many people
worldwide incorporate into their lifestyles today. This appeals to some who may not typically be active
and therefore may be another alternative of exercise.

Festival dance draws the people’s culture by portraying their way of life through movements,
costume and implements inherent to their place of origin.

Festival dances are cultural dances performed to the strong beats of percussion instruments
by a community of people sharing the same culture usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or as a
thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. Festival dances may be religious or secular in nature. But the
best thing about festival is that they add to the merry making and festivities of a place where they
are celebrated, the reason why they are called festival dances after all.

Filipinos do festivals primarily to celebrate unity amidst diversity of cultures. The value of
industry and hard work that brings about bountiful yield is also one of the reasons of the
celebration. Festivals have a consistent crowd-drawing activity which in a way uplifts the economy of
one’s place due to its tourism and entertainment value.

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NATURE AND BACKGROUND OF FESTIVAL DANCES:

A. Cultural with religious influences.

These are dances characterized by movements showing reverence to a religious icon believed to
have mediated in their personal life. The following are some of these dances.

Cultural Dance with Religious Influences

NAME OF
FESTIVAL PLACE OF ORIGIN DESCRIPTION SAMPLE IMAGE
DANCE
1. Ati- atihan Kalibo, Aklan ✓ held annually during 3rd Sunday of
January
✓ to be like “Aetas” or make believe
Aetas
✓ it consists of tribal dance and
music accompanied by indigenous
costumes and weapons, and
parade along the street.
https://explore.traveloka
.com/boracay/ati-atihan
-festival-guide
2. Moriones Marinduque ✓ held every holy week
✓ show cases men and women in
costumes and mask replicating the
attire of biblical Roman soldier.

https://www.lakwatserangli
gaw.com/2014/10/morione
s-festival.html
3. Dinagyag Iloilo City ✓ held on the 4th
Sunday of January, or right after
the Sinulog in Cebu and the
Ati-atihan in Aklan.

https://www.zenroom
s.com/blog/post/dina
gyang-festival/

4. Sinulog Cebu City ✓ held in every year on the 3rd

Sunday of JANUARY.
✓ it is a traditional and ritual dance
in honor of Santo Niño.

https://www.driftstorie
s.com/sinulog-2017-i n-
black-and-white/

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 5. Pahiyas Tayabas, ✓ held every 15th of May ✓ the
Sariaya, decorations are called “Kipping”, leaf-
Gumaca and shaped and multi-colored rice paste
Tiaong, wafers which are used to decorate the
Philippines facades of the homes along with fruits
and flowers from nature.

https://moderndayshoe
box.wordpress.com/201
4/05/17/pahiyas-festival
-2014/

B. Indigenous Influence/ Non- Religious Festival

These dances are celebrated in any occasion, be it personal, family or even

those that will require the whole community to celebrate an event or acknowledge an
icon which became the source of inspiration, identity, or origin.

NAME OF
PLACE OF
FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION SAMPLE IMAGE
ORIGIN
DANCE
1. Maskara Bacolod City ✓ began on April 22, 1980 during the
period of crisis when the inter-island
vessel
MV Don Juan carrying many
Negrenses and

prominent families collided with tanker http://www.seasite.niu.

and sank. In the midst of these events, edu/Tagalog/Cynthia/f
the city artists,local government and estivals/masskara_fes
civic groups decide to hold a festival of tival.htm
smiles.
2. Ibalong Legaspi ✓held every 25th of October through to
City, Albay the 31st of the same month.

✓they celebrated the epic story Ibalong

who was accompanied by three http://www.bicolsta
legendary heroes namely: ndard.com/2018/08
Baltog, Handyong and /preparations-in-full -
Bantong. swing-for-legazpis. html

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 3. Kalilangan General ✓ held every month of February.
Santos to celebrate the tradition of sharing,
City ✓ hospitality, selflessness that is part of
the cultural heritage of Mindanao such
as the local wedding ceremony and
other religious rituals.

https://triptheisland
s.com/destinations
/kalilangan-festival -
general-santos-city/

Other form of festival

NAME OF
PLACE OF
FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION SAMPLE IMAGE
ORIGIN
DANCE
Panagbenga Baguio City ✓ held in February, created as a tribute to
the city's flowers and as a way to rise
up from the devastation of the 1990
Luzon earthquake.

https://www.mypope.c
om.ph/panagbenga-fe
stival-2021-is-postpon ed-
baguio-officials/

What I Have Learned

Activity 4: Festivals Where and When

Directions: Fill out the table with the needed information.
Festival Dance Place of Origin Date of Celebration
Example:
KATAGMAN OTON, ILOILO EVERY 3RD OF MAY
FESTIVAL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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Reflection
Directions: Write a 5-sentence paragraph about the importance of festival dance in your community.
_________________________________________________________________________________
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Assessment

SUMMATIVE TEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement

with artistic and symbolic value.
A. Dance C. Singing
B. Film D . Theater
2. Which of these festival dances originated in Legaspi City, Albay?
A. Bakya B. Binasuan C. Ibalong D. Tinikling
3. Which is a festival dance?
A. Alcamfor B. Dinagyang C. Kakawati D. Jotabal
4. What festival dance celebrates the tradition of sharing, hospitality and selflessness is
called _____.
A. Flower B. Kalilangan C. Pinagbenga D. Sinulog
5. It is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some
characteristics aspect of that community and its religion or culture.
A. Cultural dance C. Non-religious dance
B. Festival dance D. Religious dance
6. Which of the following festival dances is celebrated in the island of Kalibo, Aklan and
takes place in the month of January in honor of the Santo Niño (Infant Jesus).
A. Ati-atihan B.Ibalong C. Maskara D. Moriones
7. It is a festival dance that uses a decoration called kipping.
A. Flower B. Kalilangan C. Pahiyas D. Sinulog
8. What festival uses mask to portray the Roman and Syrian soldiers’ fortune within the
story of the Passion of Christ?
A. Ati-atihan B. Ibalong C. Maskara D. Moriones
9. It is a cultural dance performed by a community of people sharing the same culture
usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or as a thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest.
A. Contemporary B. Creative C. Festival D. Non- Religious
10. It is a Blooming Flower Festival occurring in Baguio City during the month of February.
A. Ati-atihan B. Ibalong C. Lanzones D. Panagbenga

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TRUE or FALSE
Directions: Read each statement carefully. Write True if the statement is correct and False
if it is incorrect.

1. Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human

movement.
2. Festival dances are cultural dances performed by a community of people sharing the
same culture usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or as a thanksgiving for a bountiful
harvest.
3. Kalilangan are men and women in costumes and wearing mask replicating the attire of
biblical Roman soldiers.
4. Ati- Atihan is a feast held annually in January in honor of the Santo Niño (Infant Jesus)
5. Sinulog is an annual thanksgiving celebration for Camiguin Island’s bountiful harvest.
6. Film festival is a gathering of artists, film makers, directors, script writers and other people
involved in film making.
7. Bantong festival is an annual festivity that is celebrated in General Santos City which
takes place in the month of February.
8. Maskara is coined from two words: mass, meaning crowd, and the Spanish word cara, for
face.
9. Ibalong festival is a non-religious festival in Legaspi City, Albay Philippines and is held in
August.
10. Pahiyas festival is one of the country’s biggest and most colourful harvest festivals to honor San
Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of farmers.