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Powerdance, Ballet Philippines and the Phil. National Hip-Hop Team/s: A Look At Popular Dance
Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:49
Written by Nel
Over the last few months, I’ve been interviewing local dance companies or organizations that have each taken their own forms of dance and either made them distinctly their own (as Filipinos are always good at doing) or have developed them to be competitive enough with the rest of the world. There’s a long and drawn out predicament that most of these groups (none of the them being “culturally” Filipino dances in the traditional sense of the word) have faced: finding supp [ … ]
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'Nutcracker' Ballerinas of Ballet Philippines
Thursday, 17 December 2009 18:02
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BALLET PHILIPPINE’S (BP) HOLIDAY offering, Noordin Jumalon’s version of “Nutcracker,” centers on the coming of age of little Marie whose love for the wooden Nutcracker doll transforms him into a chivalrous Prince. I [ … ]
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Tributes to Dance Greats
Thursday, 17 December 2009 17:58
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PHILIPPINE BALLET THEATER capped its 23rd season with a laudable restaging of “Mir-I-Nisa,” the first Filipino three-act ballet, at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City. Based on an award-w [ … ]
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Defining Streetdance
Monday, 14 December 2009 20:24
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crew-and-up.jpgStreet Beat Published in the Manila Bulletin, i section on June 22, 2006. photos by Ali Vicoy Beyond terminology, beyond definition and cultural lines drawn in the sand, there has existed, arguably since the late 70s, hints of hiphop da [ … ]
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Bend It Like Bollywood, Part 2
Saturday, 12 December 2009 04:30
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Bollywood dancing is the style of dance which developed in the Hindi film industryBOLLYWOOD DANCE by David Courtney Bollywood dance is the dance-form used in the Indian films. It is a mixture of numerous styles. These styles include belly-dancing, kathak, Indian folk, Western popular, and "modern", jazz, and even [ … ]
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Staying Fit this Season - Christmas Special Article
Lady Fitness Dancer
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The Christmas season is here! Traffic, last minute shopping and elaborative decorations are just about anywhere. The Filipino tradition though, as i [ ... ]

Bend It Like Bollywood, Part 2
Nel
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BOLLYWOOD DANCE by David Courtney Bollywood dance is the dance-form used in the Indian films. It is a mixture of numerous styles. These styles  [ ... ]

Japanese Hip-Hop Culture, 101
B-girl Emiko
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Well, I may know a little bit more about Japanese Hip-Hop scene than you guys and therefore, you guys will receive Japanese Hip-Hop culture 101 today. [ ... ]

Philippine Theatrical Dance Forms
Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz
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On or off stage, certain Christmas customs involve proto-theatrical dances. The panuluyan (the Holy Family seeking lodging in Bethlehem) and [ ... ]

Rituals in Philippine Dance
Ramon Obusan
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Range and Variability Ritual practices in the Philippines take a multitude of forms and take place on any number of occasions, reflecting  [ ... ]