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jjherreban (October 12, 2007 at 7:33 pm)
Desde España felicidades por vuestra interpretación
gqdr77 (May 31, 2007 at 4:28 am)
Wow! Ang galing!
blueleopard (May 13, 2007 at 5:07 am)
Mabuhay Cultural Club is a High School PCN group that has never received professional training. We just had the fortune and luxury to have the wonderful Hiyas Music Ensemble handle all the live instrumentals for our PCN... so our group should not be confused with the great Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company. I do appreciate the constructive criticism though--as it will indeed make our future performances better!
galinaciega (May 7, 2007 at 6:56 am)
The musicians are Hiyas Music Ensemble. The dancers are high school Pilipino Culture Night dancers. They are only students who practice folk dancing informally. They are not to be mistaken with HIYAS PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE COMPANY! The Company music ensemble only assisted the HS function by providing them with the rondalla.
arqueologo (May 5, 2007 at 8:43 am)
But you will not deny that the use of Spanish intruments as influenced in the music, the music is per se a spanish jota and so is the dance. In a local adatation but still...
keinsz (May 5, 2007 at 7:10 am)
You have a very good set of musicians to boast but your dancers need ALOT of improvement. The dancers seem to be like children playing in the sand. They are not graceful and the hand postures and movements are not properly placed or executed. Nevertheless it was a nice try. Let's just hope you'll be doing better next time. MAbuhay kayo.
keinsz (May 5, 2007 at 6:57 am)
Dance anthropolist Ramon Obusan said that this dance was originally called Jota Florana, and was performed using the Ilocano/Yogad bamboo ensemble the "tallelet". The use of banduria, oktabina, gitara and bajo de uñas is a late adaptation. The tallelet music and so is the dance is performed during funeral procession which is quiet impossible for a rondalla. Remember too, there are the Desmayo (fainting) and Patay (death) steps in the dance!
keinsz (May 5, 2007 at 6:43 am)
The castanet used here is actually the Filipino "kalasteng buho" different from ur castañuelas (chestnut wood clickers which are round and strung). The use of castanets in Pinoy dancing predates Spanish colonization. The Agalalukan Dance use seashells as clickers, the Bulah-bulah and Tagungguh use bamboo clickers similar to the one used here and so is the Subli. The only dance I know using the round castañeta is the very rare Spanish-influence Jota Ivatan from Batanes.
arqueologo (May 3, 2007 at 8:40 am)
I have been misunderstood again! It seems I should not write in Spanish. I said "Anyone would say that it is Spain, not the Philippines". And, however, the jota is a Spanish dance, so are the castañuelas, the octavilla and the bandurria.
xXinnocenceXx (May 3, 2007 at 2:51 am)
Uhmm, excuse me .. but those are Philippine Folk Dances, not a Spanish. They have Spanish influence. |
