{"id":501,"date":"2015-05-06T13:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:47:28","slug":"bunga-arts-link-igal-dancing-for-different-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/2015\/05\/06\/bunga-arts-link-igal-dancing-for-different-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunga Arts Link: Igal Dancing for Different Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-502\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/05\/Igal-workshop-2015-poster-A3.jpg\" alt=\"Igal workshop 2015 poster A3\" width=\"598\" height=\"850\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;font-size: 12pt\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Also known as the dance of the <em>Sama<\/em> people, <em>Igal <\/em>is a traditional dance that originated from the islands of the maritime Southeast Asia. This form of ethnic dance is presented in different variations in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Cambodia. \u00a0In the Philippines, it is recognized as one of today\u2019s most important cultural performance due to its distinct movements and postures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Igal <\/em>dance is composed of movements such as bended poses and swift flicks by the fingers, wrists and arms but still maintains a fluid and unique tempo throughout the performance. The ethnic groups within the <em>Sama-Bajau<\/em> practice the performance of <em>Igal<\/em> in different tribal festivities such as weddings and the celebration of a bountiful harvest. Performances usually present a story and are depicted not only through their movements but as well as the dancer\u2019s facial expression and costume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This extremely influential dance has not only shown its popularity within the Filipino community but as well as that of the Japanese. The University of the Philippines\u2019 Asian Center and the Bunga Arts Link has been collaborating for three years now in spreading the beauty of ethnic dance to the modern community with their annual <em>Igal<\/em> Dance Workshop, which is for free. The <em>Igal<\/em> movements taught by the instructors of the workshop were acquired and learned from different tribal <em>Igal<\/em> masters. Their project has not only reached locals but as well as the Japanese community. Throughout the years, more and more Japanese nationals have participated in the workshop. Even those who have already left the Philippines still continues to practice Igal in Japan for it truly is a beautiful form of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This summer\u2019s <em>Igal <\/em>workshop has already started but don\u2019t fret! You may still attend and join the event! It will be held every <strong>Saturday<\/strong> for the <strong>month of May from 4:00 to 6:00pm at Bulwagang Sala\u2019am, Romulo Hall in UP Diliman<\/strong>. The workshop recital will be on the 29<sup>th<\/sup> of May. There\u2019s no better way of learning more about the art of ethnic dance other than experiencing the beauty of <em>Igal<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">**<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Article by Vikki Daet<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Also known as the dance of the Sama people, Igal is a traditional dance that originated from the islands of the maritime Southeast Asia. This form of ethnic dance is presented in different variations in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Cambodia. \u00a0In the Philippines, it is recognized as one of today\u2019s most important cultural performance due to its distinct movements and postures. The Igal dance is composed of movements such as bended poses and swift flicks by the fingers, wrists and arms but still maintains a fluid and unique tempo throughout the performance. The ethnic groups within the Sama-Bajau practice the performance of Igal in different tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quezon","category-dance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}