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The document summarizes several cultural dance festivals celebrated in the Philippines, usually in honor of Catholic saints or harvest seasons. Some of the major festivals described include the Ati-Atihan in Kalibo celebrating the Santo Niño in January, the Sinulog in Cebu also honoring the Santo Niño in January, and the Dinagyang in Iloilo on the fourth Sunday of January honoring the Santo Niño and Malay settlers. Other festivals mentioned are Panagbenga in Baguio in February celebrating flowers, Moriones in Marinduque during Holy Week depicting Roman soldiers, Pahiyas in Lucban in May honoring farmers, Kadayawan in Davao in August

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FESTIVAL-DANCE

The document summarizes several cultural dance festivals celebrated in the Philippines, usually in honor of Catholic saints or harvest seasons. Some of the major festivals described include the Ati-Atihan in Kalibo celebrating the Santo Niño in January, the Sinulog in Cebu also honoring the Santo Niño in January, and the Dinagyang in Iloilo on the fourth Sunday of January honoring the Santo Niño and Malay settlers. Other festivals mentioned are Panagbenga in Baguio in February celebrating flowers, Moriones in Marinduque during Holy Week depicting Roman soldiers, Pahiyas in Lucban in May honoring farmers, Kadayawan in Davao in August

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FESTIVAL DANCE

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 in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest.

Ati-Atihan
Date: 3rd Sunday of January
The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held in honor of the Santo Niño held annually in January concluding on third
Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines. It is the wildest among Philippine fiestas and considered as
the Mother of All Philippine festivals. Celebrants paint their faces with black soot and wear bright, outlandish
costumes as they dance in revelry during the last three days of this two week-long festival. Catholics and non-
Catholics alike observe this special day with processions, parades, dancing, and merrymaking.

Sinulog
Date: 3rd Sunday of January
The Sinulog is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival honors
the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu. It is a dance ritual that
commemorates the Cebuano people’s pagan origin, and their acceptance of Christianity. The festival features a street
parade with participants in bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs.

Dinagyang
Date: 4th Sunday of January
The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. It
is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent
selling of the island to them by the Atis. Dinagyang was voted as the best Tourism Event for 2006, 2007 and 2008 by
the Association of Tourism Officers in the Philippines.

Panagbenga
Date: February
Panagbenga is month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of
February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990
Luzon earthquake. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers unlike those used in Pasadena’s Rose
Parade. 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 Cordillera region.

Moriones
Date: Holy Week
The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. The “Moriones”
are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by local
folks – Morion means “mask” or “visor,” a part of the medieval Roman armor which covers the face. The Moriones
or Moryonan tradition has inspired the creation of other festivals in the Philippines where cultural practices or folk
history is turned into street festivals.
Pahiyas
Date: 15th May
Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas Festival in honor of the patron saint of farmers, St. Isidore. This festival showcases a
street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made
decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried. The houses are judged and the best one is proclaimed the
winner.

Kadayawan
Date: Third week of August
The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the
friendly greeting “Madayaw”, from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good, and valuable, superior or
beautiful. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the
bounties of harvest and serenity of living.

MassKara
Date: 3rd weekend nearest to 19th October
The MassKara Festival is a week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental
province. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to
see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety,
coordination and stamina. The word MassKara has a double meaning. First, it is a fusion of the English word “mass”
or many and “kara”, the Spanish word for “face.” MassKara then becomes a “mass of faces,” and these faces have to
be smiling to project Bacolod already known in the late 70′s as the City of Smiles.

Higantes
Date: 23rd November
Angono celebrates the “Higantes Festival” which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron
Saint of Angono. Higantes Festival is now promoted as tourism-generating event in the country. This
attracts numerous tourist from all over the world. The higantes are made of paper-mache. Higantes
measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last
century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda. This higantes was influenced by the Mexican art form of
paper-mache brought by the Spanish priests to the Philippines.

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