HEALTH-OPTIMIZING

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
3
DANCE
Quarter 2 Hip-Hop for Fitness
Module 8
Session Week 5-6 First Semester/Second Quarter

Most Essential Learning Competency:

Participates in an organized event that addresses health/fitness issues
and concerns.

What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the different ways by which information from everyday life may be
acquired. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different
learning situations. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence
of the course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to
correspond with the textbook you are now using.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. describe the nature of festival dances;
2. identify various festival dances in the country;
3. recognize health issues and concerns that may occur in participation to
festival dance; and
4. appreciate the value of participating in an organized event that addresses
health/fitness issues and concerns.
 What I Know

Learning Task 1
Directions: True or False. Analyze each item carefully. Write T if the
statement is correct and F if it is not.Write your answer on your paper.
_______ 1. Filipinos love to celebrate fiestas.
_______ 2. Fiestas become important avenues for artistic engagement.
_______ 3. There is age restriction in participating to festival dances.
_______ 4. Philippine festivals are all religious in nature.
_______ 5. Festival dances reflect the unity of the Filipino people.

What’s In

Learning Task 2
Directions:Are you a good traveler? Let’s find out how good you are! Match
Column A which are the different festivals in the country with Column B
which are the places of origin. Write only the letter of the correct answer on
your paper.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. Bangus A. Baguio City
2. Higantes B. Bicol
3. Kadayawan C. Cebu City
4. Panagbenga D. Davao City
5. Penafrancia E. Pangasinan
F. Rizal
 What’s New

Learning Task 3
Directions: Are you familiar with this poster? Answer briefly the following
questions. Write your answers on your paper.

Photo credit:
https://www.tpb.gov.ph/press_releases/rediscovering-why-its-more-fun-in-the-
philippines/

1. What comes to your mind when you see this logo?

2. Why do you think “It’s More Fun in the Philippines”?

Lesson
Festival Dance for Fitness
8
What is It

Introduction
Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture
and traditions (Davis, 2021). They are meant to rejoice special moments and
emotions in our lives with our loved ones. They play an important role to add
structure to our social lives, and connect us with our families and
backgrounds.

In the Philippines festivals are an integral aspect of the local

culture, known for their grand and vibrant celebrations. Festivals in
the Philippines are fairly common occurrence, with over 42,000 major
and minor festivals celebrated across the country(Asia Someday).

Given the Spanish influence on Catholic spirituality in the

Philippines, a number of festivals celebrated here are religion-
based. Besides that, there are a number of other festivals that mark
important historic events. Irrespective of the origin, locals go all -out
to celebrate each of these festivals. Costumes, dances, parades and
some of the most elaborate processions are a site worth witnessing.

Festival Dance
The Philippines has so many festivals: there are town fiestas celebrating
foundation days, patron saints and a combination of both. These festivals are
occasions when and where people converge. But what are festival dances?
According to Tobato (2014), festival dances are performed to the strong beats
of percussion instruments by a community of people sharing the same culture
usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or in thanksgiving of a bountiful
harvest. Moreover, festival dances draw peoples’ culture by portraying the
peoples way of life through movements, costumes and implements inherent to
their place of origin.

Furthermore, why do we celebrate festival dances? To conserve Filipino

traditions and values, we need festivals and dances. It is just a way to think of
past and be thankful to God for all the things given. A festival
is a celebration that repeats once in a year and involves special activities or
amusements. Further, the Ethnic Group Philippines (2016) mentioned
 that festivals are reminders of our past; it gives us a glimpse of our rich
cultural heritage and at the same time connects us to our families and loved
ones. They are reflection of the unity of the Filipino community that despite
their economic, social, environmental, cultural and political challenges we face
every day, there can be no other race more resilient than ours.

Nature of Philippines Festival Dances

❖ Religious - in honor of a certain religious icon.

❖ Secular or Non-Religious – in thanksgiving or celebration of peoples’ industry
and bountiful harvest.

Religious Festivals

Name of Festival Place of Origin Religious Figure Month of

Honored Celebration
Sinulog Cebu City Sto. Nino January

Dinagyang Iloilo City Sto. Nino January

Ati-Atihan Kalibo, Aklan Sto. Nino January

Penafrancia Bicol Virgin Mary September

Higantes Angono, Rizal Saint Clement November

Longganisa Vigan, Ilocos Sur Saint Paul January

Kinabayo Dapitan City James the Great July

Pintados de Pintados City, Iloilo Sto. Nino March

Passi
Pattarradday Santiago City Senor Santiago May

Sangyaw Tacloban City Sto. Nino July

 Secular/Non-Religious Festivals
Name of Place of Origin Industry Month of
Festival Celebration
Bangus Dagupan, Milkfish April-May
Pangasinan
Bambanti Isabela Scarecrow January

Mammangui City of Ilagan Corn May

Mango Iba, Zambales Mango April

Panagbenga Baguio City Flower February

Ibon Ebon Pampanga Migratory Birds February

Egg Industry
Masskara Bacolod City Mask (Sugar October
Industry)
T’nalak Koronadal, Colorful Abaca January
Cotabato
Ammungan Nueva Vizcaya Gathering of Tribal May
Industries
Binatbatan Vigan, Ilocos Sur Weaving May

Some of the Famous Festival Dances in the Country

Sinulog Festival
The Sinulog is an annual
festival held on the third Sunday of
January in Cebu City, Philippines.
The festival honors the child Jesus,
known as the Santo Niño (Holy
Child), patron of the city of Cebu. It
is a dance ritual that
commemorates the Cebuano
people’s pagan origin, and their
acceptance of Christianity. The
festival features a street parade
with participants in bright-colored
costumes dancing to the rhythm of
drums, trumpets, and native gongs.

Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MUWqa7iL4

Masskara Festival
The MassKara Festival is a
week-long festival held each year in
Bacolod City, the capital of Negros
Occidental province. The festival
features a street dance competition
where people from all walks of life
troop to the streets to see colorfully-
masked dancers gyrating to the
rhythm of Latin musical beats in a
display of mastery, gaiety,
coordination and stamina. The word
MassKara has a double meaning.
First, it is a fusion of the English
word “mass” or many and “kara”,
the Spanish word for “face.”
MassKara then becomes a “mass of
faces,” and these faces have to be
smiling to project Bacolod already
known in the late 70’s as the City of
Smiles.
Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrwhWlbKRh8

Panagbenga Festival
Panagbenga is month-long
annual flower festival occurring
in Baguio. The festival, held during
the month of February, was created
as a tribute to the city’s flowers and
as a way to rise up from the
devastation of the 1990 Luzon
earthquake. The festival includes
floats that are decorated with
flowers unlike those used in
Pasadena’s Rose Parade. The festival
also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-
inspired costumes that is inspired
by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of
celebration that came from the
Cordillera region.
 Some of the Famous Festivals in CALABARZON

Pahiyas Festival
Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas
Festival in honor of the patron saint
of farmers, St. Isidore. This festival
showcases a street of houses which
are adorned with fruits, vegetables,
agricultural products, handicrafts
and kiping, a rice-made decoration,
which afterwards can be eaten grilled
or fried. The houses are judged and
the best one is proclaimed the
winner.

Higantes Festival
Angono celebrates the “Higantes
Festival” which coincides with the
Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron
Saint of Angono. Higantes Festival is
now promoted as tourism-generating
event in the country. This attracts
numerous tourist from all over the
world. The higantes are made of
paper-mache. Higantes measures
four to five feet in diameter and ten
to twelve feet in height. Traditionally,
it began in the last century when
Angono was a Spanish hacienda.
This higantes was influenced by the
Mexican art form of paper-mache
brought by the Spanish priests to
the Philippines.
Batingaw Festival
The Batingaw Festival
commemorates the legendary
“Kampanang Ginto” which Cabuyao
is known. The celebration always
starts with the simultaneous ringing
of church bells, which believes,
bring good agricultural harvest.
Highlights of the five-day festival
includes the colorful street dancing,
singing contest, trade fair exhibits &
fireworks.

Some of the Famous Festivals in Cavite

Paru-Paro Festival
The City of Dasmariñas started
as a barrio of the town of Imus,
Cavite until it was declared a new
town on May 12,1864. After 145
years of being a municipality, it was
declared a city last November
26,2009. Paru-Paro Festival is the
official festival of the City of
Dasmariñas as declared in
Resolution No. 069-s-2011 and
Special Ordinance 02-s-2011
enacted then by City Mayor Jennifer
Austria Barzaga and the
Sangguniang Panlungsod. The
festival was first launched on
November 26, 2011 during the
Second Anniversary of the Cityhood
of Dasmariñas.
Lohitor Festival
Held every February 28, the
“Lohitor”, an acronym for “lobo”
(balloon), “Higante “ (giant), and
“toro” (bull) showcases a grand
street dancing, parade of bands,
and other colorful activities for the
feast of Tata Usteng (Saint
Augustine), the town’s patron saint.

What’s More

Learning Task 4

Participation to activity like festival dances is fun. It is also a form of

physical activity that can improve your health and reduce the risk of several
diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Physical
activity and exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most
importantly, regular activity can improve your quality of life.

Part I
Directions:Knowing the various festivals in the country, look for the different
festivals celebrated in the province of Cavite. Do this by completing the given
table.

Name of Festival Place of Origin Nature of Month of

Celebration Celebration
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Part II
Directions: Being a performer in uncertain time like this gives us a different
scenario. As part of a performing group, what do you think are the
health/fitness issues and concerns that should be addressed? How will you
deal with these concerns? Write your answer on your paper.

What I Can Do

Learning Task 6
Davis (2021) emphasized the importance of school participation in
festivals or community based activities. He stressed that events and festivals
in schools have become an integral part of learning and building a strong
cultural belief in a child. Such celebration will bring students closer to
traditional and cultural belief. Festivals contribute immensely to feelings of
social cohesion.

Directions: Festival dances are amusing to look at. They are characterized by
colorful and artistic costumes. Dancers also perform energetically using a
wide variety of formations. During your Grade-9 PE subject you have
performed Festival Dances as part of your culminating activity. You may draw
or cut out and paste on a bond paper the Festival Dance you presented.
Afterwards, answer the given questions and write it on your paper.
1. Why do you think it is important to perform Festival Dances in your
culminating activity?
2. What are the health issues and concerns you encountered?

What I Have Learned

Learning Task 7
Directions: Answer the following questions using three-five (3-5) sentences
only. Write your answers on your paper.
With the current situation we are facing, is it possible to organize
activity that will help us develop our fitness level? In what way/s can it be
done?
 Assessment

Part I.
Directions: Identify the word/s being described. Write your answer on your
paper.

1. It draws peoples’ culture by portraying the peoples way of life through

movements, costumes and implements inherent to their place of origin.
2. It is the type of festival celebrated in honor of a religious icon.
3. It is the type of festival celebrated as form of thanks giving.
4. This festival is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people’s
pagan origin, and their acceptance of Christianity
5. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits,
vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made
decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried.

Part II.
Directions: Answer briefly the given questions. Write your answer on your
paper.
Due to pandemic, celebration of various festivals all over the country
was not held. As a Caviteno, how will you promote the various festivals in our
province?