Pag-Alintabo ni Manama @ 32nd Annual SF Ethnic Dance Festival

Parangal Dance Company's Pag-Alintanbo Ni Manama 2010 in Review!

SF Chronicle - Allan Ulrich
32nd Ethnic Dance Festival June 2010
"Among the discoveries was the Parangal Dance Company's fervent facsimile of a religious ritual from the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao. Erik Espartinez Solano's choreography begins with an introspective women's candle ceremony, which yields to a more boisterous section for men with banners. Sheaves of grain reinforce the piece's function as a fertility rite."

DigitalJournal.com - Jonathan Farrel
Asia On Stage September 2010
"The finale-spectacular, was a rousing expression of folk and age-old tribal dances performed by the Parangal Dance Company."


The Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao contain over fifty indigenous non-Islamic communities, collectively called Lumad. The connection between the Lumad and the spirit world is a kind of perpetual parabola, with gifts given and returned. A babaylan or shaman, usually female, acts as healer, protector, seer, and the bridge between worlds.

Pag-alintabo ni Manama means"the blazing radiance of the gods." The ritual dance, chant, and trance elements of this performance bring wisdom and spiritual transcendence to the Philippine indigenous people

Video clips shown

In Dugso, a Talaandig babaylan helps women entertain deities. She keeps the fire burning, as smoke carries prayers to the gods. Headdresses are made of feathers, twigs, beads, yarn, and coins; zigzag dresses remind women they are children of the colorful pagpayok bird; and singgil bells are music to the spirits' ears.

Sugod Uno is a Bagobo prayer for choosing fertile fields. The field is selected, the men dig holes with talapak poles, women place grains of rice, and then the dancers celebrate. The music is played on agung drum, and on unique Bagobo tangunggo gongs hung on bamboo frames.

Kalooban is the final thanksgiving of Talaandig, Bagobo, and Tagbanua for the harvest.

Glimpses of Parangal performances
http://www.parangaldance.org/galleries.html

World Arts West
http://www.worldartswest.org/main/edf_performer.asp?i=167

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