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  2. Dance in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Tahing Baila is a Yakan dance, a low land tribal Philippine folk dance, in which it tries to imitate movements of fish. [2] Pangsak Basilan Yakan From the highlands of Mindanao, is a Musim ethnic group called the Yakan. They are known to wear body-hugging elaborately woven costumes.

  3. Singkil - Wikipedia

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    Singkil is an ethnic dance of the Philippines that has its origins in the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, a Mindanao Muslim ethnolinguistic group.The dance is widely recognized today as the royal dance of a prince and a princess weaving in and out of crisscrossed bamboo poles clapped in syncopated rhythm.

  4. Philippine folk music - Wikipedia

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    Folk music musical instruments. The music of the Philippines' many Indigenous peoples are associated with the various occasions that shape life in indigenous communities, including day-to-day activities as well as major life-events, which typically include "birth, initiation and graduation ceremonies; courtship and marriage; death and funeral rites; hunting, fishing, planting and harvest ...

  5. Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company - Wikipedia

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    It was formally established in 1957 as the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. In the same year, the company worked alongside the Bayanihan Folk Arts Center in researching and preserving indigenous Philippine art forms in music, dance, costumes, and folklore, and restructuring and enhancing these art forms to suit the demands of contemporary ...

  6. List of Philippine-based music groups - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable Philippine-based choirs, orchestras and musical bands. Bands listed fall under any of these main Philippine music styles: Philippine folk, Manila sound, Pinoy reggae, Pinoy pop, Pinoy rock and Pinoy hip hop, as well as the jazz and ska music genres.

  7. List of folk dance performance groups - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable folk dance performance groups, listed by country of origin. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( November 2019 )

  8. Maranao people - Wikipedia

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    Maranao culture is centered around Lake Lanao, the largest lake in Mindanao, and second-largest and deepest lake in the Philippines. Lanao is the subject of various myths and legends. It supports a major fishery, and powers the hydroelectric plant installed on it; the Agus River system generates 70% of the electricity used by the people of ...

  9. Grace Nono - Wikipedia

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    When she moved to the Philippine High School for the Arts, she played guitar for the school rondalla ensemble that specialized in Spanish-influenced lowland Christian music. At the University of the Philippines-Baguio, she sang in a band called Montanosa that specialized in protest songs in the manner of American 60s folk music.