Religious Festival Dance Flashcards
are cultural dances performed with the strong beat of percussion instruments by the people in the community sharing the same culture.
Festival Dance
It is usually done in honor of a Patron Saint as a thanksgiving for a beautiful harvest
Festival Dance
These are dances characterized by movements showing reverence to a religious icon believed to have interceded in their personal lives. This celebration is an expression of thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest and for a favor or request to them through divine intercession
Religious Festival Dance
One of the most famous festivals in the Philippines, Celebrated in Cebu City
Sinulog Festival
it is a traditional celebration held every third Sunday of January to honor the Santo Nino (Child Jesus). Basically, the festival is done by a dance ritual, in which it tells the story of the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity
Sinulog Festival
It is celebrated annually on the third Saturday of September.
The Feast of Our Lady Penafrancia
Guest from all walks of life will be at Holy Trinity Church to meet their relatives and friends, share food, drinks, and prayers with them and most of all, to pay homage and make thanksgiving to Our Lady Penafrancia.
The Feast of Our Lady Penafrancia
The feast day is headed by a novena, nine days of prayer, in honor of Our Lady, On the first day, the novena is prayed at home and the image of our lady will go from house to house until they complete the ninth day.
The Feast of Our Lady Penafrancia
One of the country’s biggest and most colorful harvest festivals in the Philippines. It celebrates an event in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the patron of saint farmers.
Pahiyas Festival
is a Philippine festival held annually in the third Sunday of January in honor of the Santo Nino(Holy Child or Infant Jesus) in several towns of the province Aklan, Panay Island.
Ati-Atihan Festival
it has inspired other Philippine Festivals such as Dinagyang of Iloilo and Sinulog of Cebu, thus known as the “Mother of All Philippine Festival”
Ati-Atihan Festival
it is a lenten festival held annually on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines.
The Moriones
these are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Imperial Roman soldiers interpreted by locals
Moriones
it is an annual cultural and religious event held in Iloilo City, Philippines, on the fourth Sunday of January. People have it in honor of Santo Nino.
The Dinagyang Festival
