Biography francisca reyes aquino folk dances

A day after the world paid tribute to all women, leading search engine Google is celebrating another esteemed woman through an animated doodle of a dancing Filipina. Reyes-Aquino is the first National Artist for Dance. She was born in Bulacan on Mar. What matters for now is for every Filipino to protect our tradition and let no one distort it under the guise of modernization.

With a small team of researchers, Reyes-Aquino spent months traveling to different rural communities, such as the barrios in Central and Northern Luzon, and studying the dances, activities, and even songs prevalent in it.

Mother of contemporary dance

Because of this, she was asked to chair a research committee at the UP to seek more folk dances and teach it. She went to Boston University to study more about the art form and came back with a penchant to uncover native dances in Mindanao, Leyte, and Mountain Province. It was in Leyte where Reyes-Aquino discovered the widely known Filipino dance T ininkling , which involves two bamboo poles and has movements imitating those of the tikling birds dodging the traps of farmers in rice fields in the Visayan Islands.

Reyes-Aquino also discovered and taught the Maglalatik , Lubi-lubi , Polka sa Nayon , through her books, which are still used as a major reference for teaching physical education until today. Leave the folk dances as they are. Header image courtesy of Bulacan Government. Get more stories like this by subscribing to our weekly newsletter here.

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Discovery of T inikling It was in Leyte where Reyes-Aquino discovered the widely known Filipino dance T ininkling , which involves two bamboo poles and has movements imitating those of the tikling birds dodging the traps of farmers in rice fields in the Visayan Islands.