The BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY is an excellent perfect human eyesight and inner soul and entertainment delicacy both DOMESTICALLY and GLOBALLY. Love you all MEMBERS and OFFICERS. Here's me LAUDING and LOVING YOU ALWAYS!!!
Danza, El Cañi, Mantones de Seda , Pangalay, Singkil, Sayaw sa Bangko, Tinikling, Paseo de Ilo-Ilo, and Paso Doble, are amongst all my favorites that the Bayanihan dances. The Bayanihan Folk Dance Company showcases all the complexity, beauty, and richness of the different sides of philippine culture, a complete and harmonious fusion of our Eastern roots and Western heritage that is unique only in our country... the culture that we proudly call our own. ¡Saludos desde Ciudad de San Pablo, Laguna!
Soooo pleases to see that the Bayanihan Dance Troupe is still existing. They were the best, I watched them every Saturday when they woukd perform for the tourist! Finally, the Tinikling, still me favorite. I hope it stays forever as it is uniquely Filipino and a very impressive and happy dance. Good job, Bayanihan Dance Troupe! Many of the International group I once knew.
Filipino Catholic Christian from the lowland had it's own unique from other neighboring country like Indonesia/Malaysia. Usually, it has something to do for our life back in the province like fishing, farming etc. & it plays the music of banduria, rondalla, gitara. Which you couldn't find anywhere in Southeast Asia. I am proud of our own Filipino heritage.
In the early 60's of my primary schooling, I was privileged enough to be taught by one of the original Bayanihan member ( a school teacher).He was an excellent dance teacher! I would love to meet him again sometime next year in the same primary school i went to ( he apparently works there as a volunteer). Im so proud to be able to dance those beautiful Filipino dances especially my favourite, Singkil where I danced the main part of the Princess.Thank you sir.
WOW! Maraming salamat! Damo nga salamat! For the Producers and dancers and musicians behind this short yet substantially loaded video: putting together Filipino Dances for UA-cam and FACEBOOK! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK TO INSPIRE THE WORLD TO APPRECIATE OUR FILIPINO CULTURE and for EVERYONE'S CULTURE -- FOR AT THE CENTER OF ANY CULTURE IS A SIMPLE EXPRESSION OF FAITH & LOVE OF GOD!
Wow salamat sa pag-upload all-in1 cultural dances of the Phils.! Sana lahat ng tradisyunal na sayaw sa lahat ng rehiyon at mga lugar sa Pinas ay magawan ng video at ma-upload para may panonoorin ang darating na henerasyon 🤞🙂
I would divide the dances based on region. Urban centers during the Spanish colonial period developed a very strong Spanish cultural community under everyday contact with the imposing Spanish forts and churches. The more provincial, Christian, farmers of the lowlands developed a mixture of Spanish and native Filipino culture. The tribal communities in the mountains maintained the animistic traditions. The Muslim communities in Mindanao were independent nations with their own Islamic cultures.
hello po. meron po ba kayong decent full video ng el cani??? Hopefully you can help me and post a copy of it here thanks po! its for a school project for our art class :)
I will always respect our indigenous tribes for preserving their cultures, though that doesnt mean i appreciate us christians' any less. Its all about respect and being openminded :) kudos to Bayanihan, though im not sure if this were the actual summary of all the dances they performed cuz i was anticipating for the Cordilleran tribes in Luzon, its a shame but they did amazing nonetheless! Mabuhay
i prefer the pre colonial Filipino traditional dances more than the post colonial Spanish influenced dances but i understand that the Philippine dances are defined by both its pre-colonial and post colonial aspects.
I like Filipino colonial dances characterized by both hispanic and indigenous Filipino elements. It is the meeting of the east and west that defines Filipino culture.
kenta kamiki Not every single pre-Hispanic dance is “originally” ours given how prevalent they are in other parts of Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. Prior to the advent of Spanish colonization, various Muslim polities in maritime Southeast Asia like the Bruneian Empire invaded the Philippines through Mindanao and Palawan, and converted many animistic Austronesians into Islam and drastically influenced their cultures. The reality of our cultural identity is it’s a seamless blend of endogenous and exogenous elements, brought about by our complex history of migration, settlement, religious conversion, colonization, and exposure to neighboring civilizations. Our hispanicized lowland Austronesian/Filipino culture and heritage, made predominant by the vast majority of the population, isn’t a mere “replica” of Spanish culture as numerous pre-Hispanic elements persisted in and integrated well with the colonial culture, e.g. Hispanicized Filipino folk dances being largely “slow” in tempo and “gracious” in choreography than their Spanish and Hispanic American counterparts -indicative influences of pre-Hispanic dances. Moreover, just because these dances were introduced and popularized during Spanish colonial period, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re not ours; we still played a pivotal role in the establishment and maintenance of these influences in the country, hence making them essentially ours. If Hispanic American nations like Mexico and Peru can acknowledge and own their colonial heritages, why can’t and shouldn’t we? The Filipino identity can never exist without pre-Hispanic, Hispanic, and post-colonial epochs in our history. Every single thing in our culture, many of which were adapted/borrowed/inspired from other cultures, is ours to cherish and uphold. The moment we reject and neglect our Hispanicized lowland Filipino culture is the time we would lose a gargantuan chunk of our identity and patrimony. It’s simply our historical reality.
@kenta kamiki If you truly delve into the intricacies of Philippine pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial history, culture, and heritage then you wouldn't say that such colonial dances aren't "truly ours." If you delve deeper, you would be surprised by what "ours" and "Filipino" really means. Moreso if you will explore international cultures and history, specially those akin to ours. You will understand the relevance of the term "original" and "real culture" in relation to the peculiarity of our history and culture.
We need to introduce all of our cultural heritage. the spanish simply killed a lot of them and segment our people. We just accepted it as we can't go against spain due to them being a strong power.
But if you truly want to learn the philippine version of spanish, check out chavacano. its our cultural language before tagalog became our national language.
It would be at the expense of our own culture. Our own culture is dying off. You are free to learn Spanish on your own. That is what school is for. The youth of the Philippines should be learning pre-colonial script as should all of us. I don't want anything to do with the mental slavery that Spain still imposes onto us.
The dances of the Filipinos do represent the main culture of the Filipinos : Asian particularty (Indo-Malay culture heritage, Hispanic and Mexican) - Filipino population also, including the Filipino language based in Tagalog, different dialects of the Philippines and Spanish/Mexican Loanwords. so I guess Filipino should know now what is our FILIPINO Identity.
mikoytv fucking thank you. Baby boomers are always so proud of the Spain elements of the history of the Philippines while completely disregarding our precolonial roots like take several seats fam.
Walang kang hiya sa mga ninuno... magbasa ka nga ng kasaysayan. www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-obscure-ancient-civilization-that-most-people-dont-know-talk-about/answer/Dayang-Marikit
@@TheMichaelsuazo13 - Hi please read my article about pre-colonial history. www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-obscure-ancient-civilization-that-most-people-dont-know-talk-about/answer/Dayang-Marikit
Nice dances despite discarding an integral element in Filipino folk dances. Babies enjoy playing with their Moms the arimunding-munding hand-dance. It's so disgusting that a renowned dance group discarded the GRACEFUL ARIMUNDING-MUNDING HAND-DANCE and exchanged it with mere WAVING OR POINTING-UP HANDS (ugh!) which is not graceful at all. And what is additionally shocking is: other dance groups imitated it and similarly are now using either the waving hands or pointing-up hands for dancing. Can we use our brains when we make changes, instead of be like unthinking zombies? PLEASE, PLEASE BRING BACK the graceful arimunding-munding hand-dance because it is an INTEGRAL PART OF THE ORIGINAL FILIPINO FOLK DANCES, besides being much, much more graceful than mere pointing up or waving.
1. From this video shown, What are the movements performed by the dancers in the different folk dances? 2. How are these dances performed? Pasagot po pls..HAHAHHA thank you!!!
BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY...THE REAL THE LEGIT...AND THE TRUE DANCE GROUP OF THE PHIL. NO OTHER DANCE COM. CAN SURPASS THEIR ACHIEVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD. OTHERS... ANG FAFANGIT ! SORRY.
No offense to the dancers, all are amazing. I'm just more interested in preserving the pre-colonial roots that are in danger of being killed off than to preserve the traditions of colonizers in flamenco looking dresses.
Those are not merely "traditions of the colonizers." Some if not most contain both hispanic and indigenous Filipino elements. Remove one and it will cease to be Filipino. The collective Filipino culture and identity, whether we like it or not is hispanic and asian.
Those aren’t mere “traditions of colonizers”. It’s a lot more nuanced than that. As rightly pointed out by the person above me, take away one aspect of our identity and it will certainly cease to become “Filipino”. The vast majority of the Filipino nation are lowland Austronesians whose pre-Hispanic cultures were greatly hispanicized, just like how the inhabitants of Mindanao and even Visayas and Luzon were islamized during the evangelization of Islam by Arab proselytizers in 13th century and Bruneian invasion in 1500. Pre-Hispanic cultures of these Austronesian groups (e.g. Tagalog, Pampangan, Ilocano, Bicolano, Cebuano) served as the cultural mainstay for predominant Spanish and Hispanic American influences, and this hybridization is manifested in majority of traditional Filipino dances like “La Jota” which is a collection of jota dances adapted to Filipino culture and usually features relatively slow tempo music and gracious movements than their Spanish counterparts. The same cultural hybridity can be observed in our traditional music like rondalla which has a slightly different ensemble and type of wood materials, and features distinctively slower and less aggressive pieces than Spanish and Mexican rondallas. Other dances that show more apparent blend of pre-Hispanic lowland Austronesian and Spanish colonial elements are festival dances in Visayas, particularly the ones in Sinulog, Ati-Atihan, and Dinagyang. In addition, not every single pre-Hispanic dances shown in this video is “originally ours” given the fact that they’re also shared with and even influenced by neighboring Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia through previous Muslim polities that invaded and set up suzerain/tributary polities in southern Philippines. Many Indonesian ethnicities, majority of which were historically islamized, feature the same type of music (gong), clothing, and choreography as these pre-Hispanic dances, especially the ones from areas under the Bangsamoro. Only the Lumads, Mangyans, Aetas, and Igorots (and others that are neither religiously Islamic nor Christian) can truly claim “originality”, but nevertheless, this only proves that if we remove any element from our identity, we’d lose a massive chunk of it and suffer more identity crises. Indeed, Spanish/Western colonization is a historical evil that should’ve never happened, but it did and we can never reverse that reality. Instead of eschewing our Hispanic past and heritage, solely on the basis of it being exogenous, we should embrace and cherish it alongside every other component of our national cultural identity. We would never exist as a nation without our pre-Hispanic, Hispanic, and post-colonial pasts. Invalidating any of them is essentially invalidating our existence and history.
Pre-colonial and Colonial dances are equally regarded. Nothing Should be left off nor supremicized. If one would only focus on its pre-colonial aspect, then it would only be similar to all austronesian cultures. And, If Philippine culture would only side its hispanic custom, then our identity as Asians would be degraded. Nothing should be biased on these matters. For this unusual mixture of cultural diversity is what makes a Filipino.
Finally, Filipino dance performances that don't include corny pop music in the background. I want to see more of this. It's more authentic.
Rigth.
@@rosamaemakaakit6529 right ✅
The BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY is an excellent perfect human eyesight and inner soul and entertainment delicacy both DOMESTICALLY and GLOBALLY. Love you all MEMBERS and OFFICERS. Here's me LAUDING and LOVING YOU ALWAYS!!!
Danza, El Cañi, Mantones de Seda , Pangalay, Singkil, Sayaw sa Bangko, Tinikling, Paseo de Ilo-Ilo, and Paso Doble, are amongst all my favorites that the Bayanihan dances. The Bayanihan Folk Dance Company showcases all the complexity, beauty, and richness of the different sides of philippine culture, a complete and harmonious fusion of our Eastern roots and Western heritage that is unique only in our country... the culture that we proudly call our own. ¡Saludos desde Ciudad de San Pablo, Laguna!
Muy bien amigo quere mas vamosa tratar nos baile
our dances shows how rich our country was
It's still is and it will advance through time making it richer than before
Soooo pleases to see that the Bayanihan Dance Troupe is still existing. They were the best, I watched them every Saturday when they woukd perform for the tourist!
Finally, the Tinikling, still me favorite. I hope it stays forever as it is uniquely Filipino and a very impressive and happy dance. Good job, Bayanihan Dance Troupe! Many of the International group I once knew.
I also watched them on weekends when they performed for tourist at pwu campus. I never got tired of them. They are the best 😄😄😄👏👏👏
Filipino Catholic Christian from the lowland had it's own unique from other neighboring country like Indonesia/Malaysia. Usually, it has something to do for our life back in the province like fishing, farming etc. & it plays the music of banduria, rondalla, gitara. Which you couldn't find anywhere in Southeast Asia. I am proud of our own Filipino heritage.
Proud to be a Newbie Folk Dancer here and very inspired with all my seniors
Bayanihan always get me goosebumps Everytime they perform. 💗💗💗
Sila ang folkdancer na may class 😍
In the early 60's of my primary schooling, I was privileged enough to be taught by one of the original Bayanihan member ( a school teacher).He was an excellent dance teacher! I would love to meet him again sometime next year in the same primary school i went to ( he apparently works there as a volunteer). Im so proud to be able to dance those beautiful Filipino dances especially my favourite, Singkil where I danced the main part of the Princess.Thank you sir.
Glad to watch dances that represents the culture of different ethnics in the Philippines. Mabuhay ang Bayaniha Dance Troupe at Pilipinas.
WOW! Maraming salamat! Damo nga salamat!
For the Producers and dancers and musicians behind this short yet substantially loaded video: putting together Filipino Dances for UA-cam and FACEBOOK!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK TO INSPIRE THE WORLD TO APPRECIATE OUR FILIPINO CULTURE and for EVERYONE'S CULTURE -- FOR AT THE CENTER OF ANY CULTURE IS A SIMPLE EXPRESSION OF FAITH & LOVE OF GOD!
our dances depict the Filipino spirit, virtue, values, and aspirations-- country not only rich in resources but more so in the arts!
Thank you for this. Wonderful compilation!
Loved watching every dance step. Proud of our Bayanihan group.
My module brought me here.but btw amazing performance.
Me too
Sameeee😭😭
Me too😭
Wow salamat sa pag-upload all-in1 cultural dances of the Phils.! Sana lahat ng tradisyunal na sayaw sa lahat ng rehiyon at mga lugar sa Pinas ay magawan ng video at ma-upload para may panonoorin ang darating na henerasyon 🤞🙂
Wonderful Bayanihan Dance company!
ITS NICE TO SEE THE RICH HERITAGE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF MY COUNTRY
Amazing performance ❤️
world class dances
Amazing performance!
yawa ning module - la
I would divide the dances based on region. Urban centers during the Spanish colonial period developed a very strong Spanish cultural community under everyday contact with the imposing Spanish forts and churches. The more provincial, Christian, farmers of the lowlands developed a mixture of Spanish and native Filipino culture. The tribal communities in the mountains maintained the animistic traditions. The Muslim communities in Mindanao were independent nations with their own Islamic cultures.
I'd love to see this live. Wow.
I'd love to see more of the "Habanera de Dilao" dance. Seems interesting!
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
hello po. meron po ba kayong decent full video ng el cani??? Hopefully you can help me and post a copy of it here thanks po! its for a school project for our art class :)
,,NAPAKAYAMAN TALAGA NG ATING CULTURANG FILIPINO
i missed folk dancing! wew!
I will always respect our indigenous tribes for preserving their cultures, though that doesnt mean i appreciate us christians' any less. Its all about respect and being openminded :) kudos to Bayanihan, though im not sure if this were the actual summary of all the dances they performed cuz i was anticipating for the Cordilleran tribes in Luzon, its a shame but they did amazing nonetheless! Mabuhay
Diversity of the Philippines
I salute them all!
This is by far my favorite folk dancing costumes I've seen on youtube (esp) 1:34 I hate those other ones I recently ran into...it looks awful
i prefer the pre colonial Filipino traditional dances more than the post colonial Spanish influenced dances but i understand that the Philippine dances are defined by both its pre-colonial and post colonial aspects.
I like Filipino colonial dances characterized by both hispanic and indigenous Filipino elements. It is the meeting of the east and west that defines Filipino culture.
kenta kamiki Not every single pre-Hispanic dance is “originally” ours given how prevalent they are in other parts of Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. Prior to the advent of Spanish colonization, various Muslim polities in maritime Southeast Asia like the Bruneian Empire invaded the Philippines through Mindanao and Palawan, and converted many animistic Austronesians into Islam and drastically influenced their cultures. The reality of our cultural identity is it’s a seamless blend of endogenous and exogenous elements, brought about by our complex history of migration, settlement, religious conversion, colonization, and exposure to neighboring civilizations.
Our hispanicized lowland Austronesian/Filipino culture and heritage, made predominant by the vast majority of the population, isn’t a mere “replica” of Spanish culture as numerous pre-Hispanic elements persisted in and integrated well with the colonial culture, e.g. Hispanicized Filipino folk dances being largely “slow” in tempo and “gracious” in choreography than their Spanish and Hispanic American counterparts -indicative influences of pre-Hispanic dances. Moreover, just because these dances were introduced and popularized during Spanish colonial period, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re not ours; we still played a pivotal role in the establishment and maintenance of these influences in the country, hence making them essentially ours. If Hispanic American nations like Mexico and Peru can acknowledge and own their colonial heritages, why can’t and shouldn’t we?
The Filipino identity can never exist without pre-Hispanic, Hispanic, and post-colonial epochs in our history. Every single thing in our culture, many of which were adapted/borrowed/inspired from other cultures, is ours to cherish and uphold. The moment we reject and neglect our Hispanicized lowland Filipino culture is the time we would lose a gargantuan chunk of our identity and patrimony. It’s simply our historical reality.
@kenta kamiki If you truly delve into the intricacies of Philippine pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial history, culture, and heritage then you wouldn't say that such colonial dances aren't "truly ours."
If you delve deeper, you would be surprised by what "ours" and "Filipino" really means.
Moreso if you will explore international cultures and history, specially those akin to ours. You will understand the relevance of the term "original" and "real culture" in relation to the peculiarity of our history and culture.
@@ティモシーリザネ Very well said!
@@ティモシーリザネ I agree with what you said 💯
Good Day Sir
Is it ok if I download this video and show some part on our office event
M O D U L E
Reintroduce Spanish as one of our official languages... we have more cultural connection to it and Spanish culture has made us into what we are today.
We need to introduce all of our cultural heritage. the spanish simply killed a lot of them and segment our people. We just accepted it as we can't go against spain due to them being a strong power.
But if you truly want to learn the philippine version of spanish, check out chavacano. its our cultural language before tagalog became our national language.
It would be at the expense of our own culture. Our own culture is dying off. You are free to learn Spanish on your own. That is what school is for. The youth of the Philippines should be learning pre-colonial script as should all of us. I don't want anything to do with the mental slavery that Spain still imposes onto us.
124th Philippine Independence from 377 years of Spanish Rule
The dances of the Filipinos do represent the main culture of the Filipinos :
Asian particularty (Indo-Malay culture heritage, Hispanic and Mexican) - Filipino population also, including the Filipino language based in Tagalog, different dialects of the Philippines and Spanish/Mexican Loanwords. so I guess Filipino should know now what is our FILIPINO Identity.
2021 anyone??
I want to join Bayanihan now!
Module pa moreeee
❤❤❤❤❤❤
The Cordillera Dances are not included here.
Sa Dami ng folk dances ng pilipinas may Hindi talaga maisasama
Where was this?
is someone here bc of the module?
Me😭😭
What is the name of this folk dances
More on Spanish sytle because Philippines colonized by the Spaniards for 400 yrs...
333 not 400
Philippines has its own. Unique in every single way. why include Spain? lets move on.
mikoytv fucking thank you. Baby boomers are always so proud of the Spain elements of the history of the Philippines while completely disregarding our precolonial roots like take several seats fam.
Walang kang hiya sa mga ninuno... magbasa ka nga ng kasaysayan.
www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-obscure-ancient-civilization-that-most-people-dont-know-talk-about/answer/Dayang-Marikit
@@TheMichaelsuazo13 - Hi please read my article about pre-colonial history.
www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-obscure-ancient-civilization-that-most-people-dont-know-talk-about/answer/Dayang-Marikit
What kind of folk dances name
Nice dances despite discarding an integral element in Filipino folk dances.
Babies enjoy playing with their Moms the arimunding-munding hand-dance. It's so disgusting that a renowned dance group discarded the GRACEFUL ARIMUNDING-MUNDING HAND-DANCE and exchanged it with mere WAVING OR POINTING-UP HANDS (ugh!) which is not graceful at all. And what is additionally shocking is: other dance groups imitated it and similarly are now using either the waving hands or pointing-up hands for dancing. Can we use our brains when we make changes, instead of be like unthinking zombies? PLEASE, PLEASE BRING BACK the graceful arimunding-munding hand-dance because it is an INTEGRAL PART OF THE ORIGINAL FILIPINO FOLK DANCES, besides being much, much more graceful than mere pointing up or waving.
*Sayaw Ed Tapew na Bangko😎
1. From this video shown, What are the movements performed by the dancers in the different folk dances?
2. How are these dances performed?
Pasagot po pls..HAHAHHA thank you!!!
Beautiful, but the Igorot dances were forgotten I guess.
BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY...THE REAL THE LEGIT...AND THE TRUE DANCE GROUP OF THE PHIL. NO OTHER DANCE COM. CAN SURPASS THEIR ACHIEVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD. OTHERS... ANG FAFANGIT ! SORRY.
No offense to the dancers, all are amazing. I'm just more interested in preserving the pre-colonial roots that are in danger of being killed off than to preserve the traditions of colonizers in flamenco looking dresses.
Those are not merely "traditions of the colonizers." Some if not most contain both hispanic and indigenous Filipino elements. Remove one and it will cease to be Filipino.
The collective Filipino culture and identity, whether we like it or not is hispanic and asian.
Those aren’t mere “traditions of colonizers”. It’s a lot more nuanced than that.
As rightly pointed out by the person above me, take away one aspect of our identity and it will certainly cease to become “Filipino”.
The vast majority of the Filipino nation are lowland Austronesians whose pre-Hispanic cultures were greatly hispanicized, just like how the inhabitants of Mindanao and even Visayas and Luzon were islamized during the evangelization of Islam by Arab proselytizers in 13th century and Bruneian invasion in 1500. Pre-Hispanic cultures of these Austronesian groups (e.g. Tagalog, Pampangan, Ilocano, Bicolano, Cebuano) served as the cultural mainstay for predominant Spanish and Hispanic American influences, and this hybridization is manifested in majority of traditional Filipino dances like “La Jota” which is a collection of jota dances adapted to Filipino culture and usually features relatively slow tempo music and gracious movements than their Spanish counterparts. The same cultural hybridity can be observed in our traditional music like rondalla which has a slightly different ensemble and type of wood materials, and features distinctively slower and less aggressive pieces than Spanish and Mexican rondallas. Other dances that show more apparent blend of pre-Hispanic lowland Austronesian and Spanish colonial elements are festival dances in Visayas, particularly the ones in Sinulog, Ati-Atihan, and Dinagyang.
In addition, not every single pre-Hispanic dances shown in this video is “originally ours” given the fact that they’re also shared with and even influenced by neighboring Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia through previous Muslim polities that invaded and set up suzerain/tributary polities in southern Philippines. Many Indonesian ethnicities, majority of which were historically islamized, feature the same type of music (gong), clothing, and choreography as these pre-Hispanic dances, especially the ones from areas under the Bangsamoro. Only the Lumads, Mangyans, Aetas, and Igorots (and others that are neither religiously Islamic nor Christian) can truly claim “originality”, but nevertheless, this only proves that if we remove any element from our identity, we’d lose a massive chunk of it and suffer more identity crises.
Indeed, Spanish/Western colonization is a historical evil that should’ve never happened, but it did and we can never reverse that reality. Instead of eschewing our Hispanic past and heritage, solely on the basis of it being exogenous, we should embrace and cherish it alongside every other component of our national cultural identity. We would never exist as a nation without our pre-Hispanic, Hispanic, and post-colonial pasts. Invalidating any of them is essentially invalidating our existence and history.
Pre-colonial and Colonial dances are equally regarded. Nothing Should be left off nor supremicized. If one would only focus on its pre-colonial aspect, then it would only be similar to all austronesian cultures. And, If Philippine culture would only side its hispanic custom, then our identity as Asians would be degraded. Nothing should be biased on these matters. For this unusual mixture of cultural diversity is what makes a Filipino.
We have to preserve both, it’s what makes us Filipino, a fusion of Asian and Hispanic cultrue.