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TINIKLING

Tinikling is a traditional Filipino dance that mimics the movements of the tikling bird and originated from field workers during Spanish colonization. It involves dancers skillfully maneuvering between large bamboo poles, which are used as percussion instruments. Dancers typically wear traditional attire, with women in Balintawak or patadyong and men in Barong Tagalog, and perform barefoot.

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TINIKLING

Tinikling is a traditional Filipino dance that mimics the movements of the tikling bird and originated from field workers during Spanish colonization. It involves dancers skillfully maneuvering between large bamboo poles, which are used as percussion instruments. Dancers typically wear traditional attire, with women in Balintawak or patadyong and men in Barong Tagalog, and perform barefoot.

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TINIKLING

- is a reference to birds locally known as tikling


- The term tinikling literally means "to perform it tickling-like.
- Dancers imitate the tikling bird's legendary grace and speed by
skillfully maneuvering between large bamboo poles.
- Legend says that the tinikling dance originated from Filipino field
workers during the time of Spanish colonization. It was a form of
punishment for workers who worked too slowly in the large
haciendas the Spanish had.

ORIGINATION
- Influenced by Spanish colonialism
- The dance originated in Palo, Leyte, Island in the Visayas.

HOW TO DANCE
- Two or four parallel pairs of bamboo poles, each around 6 to 12 ft
(1.8 to 3.7 m) long, are held by two or more sitting or kneeling
people ("clappers" or "clickers").
- The poles are used as percussive instruments accompanying
rondalla music played with string instruments.
- They produce clapping sounds as they are struck against the
ground.
- Two or more dancers then weave through the rapidly moving
bamboo poles with bare feet and ankles.
- The dance involves at least two people beating, tapping, and sliding
bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination
with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in
a dance.

ATTIRE
- WOMEN: Balintawak or patadyong
- MEN: Barong Tagalog.
- Dancers wear no footwear while performing

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