Another dance introduced by the Spaniards to Filipinos is the Cariñosa. This folk dance can best be described as a courtship dance with flirtatious movements. The basic movements are three steps and ...

A “Gen Z” performance of a traditional Philippine folk dance by students from Georgia Institute of Technology went viral on social media. The university’s Filipino Student Association performed a ...

Take a two-hour tour through the Philippines, from the rural countryside to the central regions, to the north and in between, all through the art of dance during the Concert of Traditional Philippine ...

Maria Zavic Batarao grew up at the Filipino Community Hall in Wapato after immigrating from the Philippines. There, she helped establish a folk dance group — Batang Wapato. Now, more than two decades ...

Sinag-Tala dancers perform the Princess Fan Dance/Kzadoratan. Sinag-Tala, Tagalog for Starlight, began as a four-person dance troupe eager to showcase traditional Filipino dance. 50 years later, the ...

What’s a Filipino feast without music and dancing? Well, not really a feast.“But it can be hard to coax men onto the dance floor, which I guess is what women say in every culture,” Elvie Smith, ...

It was as a 6-year-old when Maria Juletta “Joji” Ramirez-Castro was first mesmerized by the Philippine folk dancing she was seeing on stage. Captivated by the grace and beauty of the older girls who ...

It’s the 25th anniversary of the Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble, so expect a spectacular celebration of culture from the Philippines at the Palace of Fine Arts this weekend. Founded by Rudi C. Soriano, ...

The Filipino American Performing Artists of North Carolina is bringing back its free summer workshop in Raleigh at The Blue Jay Point County Park Saturday, July 2. The event had been canceled due to ...

Hinsdale South’s 2019 Ethnic Fair was all about dancing, food and connections. Edmund Arroyo, a social worker at the high school who emceed the fair, told the friends and relatives seated in the ...

There is no livelier venue in town than the Palace of Fine Arts Theater when the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is under way. At Saturday afternoon’s opening, early-arriving patrons watched a ...

Itik means duck and in the Itik Itik folk dance dancers are mimicking the movements of a duck like the flying and waddling. The Itik Itik is a great addition to our list of easiest Filipino folk ...