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Philippine Festivals
History of this festivities were a
celebration after a group of Datus from
Borneo were given refuge in the island of
Panay in central Philippines. They began
this celebrations after paying for their
right to own land. When the Spaniards
colonized the Philippines, “Christianity”
was merged into these indigenous
religious customs.
What are Festival
Dances?
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 in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest.
Festival dances may be Religious Secular or
Non-Religious.
It draw people’s culture by portraying the
people’s way of life through movements,
costumes and implements inherent to their
place of origin
Name of festival
dances and its origin
Ati-Atihan Festival
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 these two week-long festivals.
Catholics and non-Catholics alike observe
this special day with processions, parades,
dancing, and merrymaking.
Sinulog Festival
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.
The word “sinulog” means “like the water

current,” and is actually the name of the step
that the dancers perform.
Dinagyang Festival
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 Festival
Month-long annual flower festival occurring in
Baguio, held during the month of February.
It 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.
The Kaamulan Festival is a Bukidnon ethnic-
cultural festival that takes place from the last week
of February to the first week of March.
It came from a word “amul”, an indigenous
Bukidnon term for a gathering for any purpose.
It can mean a datukship ritual, a wedding
ceremony, a thanksgiving festival during harvest
time, a peace pact, or any number of these together.
The Festival is held in Malaybalay City from the
second half of February to March 10, the
anniversary date of the foundation of Bukidnon as
a province in 1917, to celebrate the culture and
tradition of the seven ethnic tribal groups—
Bukidnon, Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo,
Matigsalug, Tigwahanon and Umayamnon—that
Kaamulan Festival
originally inhabited the province. It is the only
ethnic festival in the Philippines.
Moriones Festival
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.
Obando Fertility Dance Festival
It is a Filipino dance ritual that was held

every month of May in Obando, Bulacan.
Men, women and children wear traditional
dance costumes to dance in the streets
followed by their patron saints (St.
Paschal, St. Clare, and “Our lady of
Salambao”) to the tune of musical
instruments made out of bamboo
materials, while singing “Santa Clarang
pinong-pino, Ang pangako ko ay ganito,
Pagdating ko sa Obando, Sasayaw ako ng
pandanggo.”
Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival
A merry-making event lasting a whole
month, highlights of which include the
Leyte Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals,
the Pintados Festival Ritual Dance
Presentation and the Pagrayhak Grand
Parade.
These festivals are said to have begun
from the feast day of Señor Santo Niño,
held every June 29th.
The Leyteños celebrate a religious
festival in a unique and colorful way.
Since the Visayans are experienced in
the art of body tattooing, men and
women are fond of tattooing themselves.
Kadayawan Festival
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, 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.
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 that attracts
numerous tourists from all over the world.
The higantes are made of paper-mache which
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 and was
influenced by the Mexican art form of papermache
Higantes Festival
brought by the Spanish priests to the Philippines.
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The word “sinulog” means “like the water

It is a Filipino dance ritual that was held

An annual festival in the city of Davao

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