Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company's Music Ensemble playing Jota Moncadena & Jota de Paragua for Mabuhay Cultural Club's 3rd annual PCN (April 20, 2007).
Jasper Barros - Guitar Marcus Lee - Octavina Justin Mambaje - Bandurria Ernest Maningding - Bass
Mabuhay Cultural Club is a High School PCN group that has never received professional training. We just had the fortune and luxury to have the wonderful Hiyas Music Ensemble handle all the live instrumentals for our PCN... so our group should not be confused with the great Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company. I do appreciate the constructive criticism though--as it will indeed make our future performances better!
The musicians are Hiyas Music Ensemble. The dancers are high school Pilipino Culture Night dancers. They are only students who practice folk dancing informally. They are not to be mistaken with HIYAS PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE COMPANY! The Company music ensemble only assisted the HS function by providing them with the rondalla.
But you will not deny that the use of Spanish intruments as influenced in the music, the music is per se a spanish jota and so is the dance. In a local adatation but still...
You have a very good set of musicians to boast but your dancers need ALOT of improvement. The dancers seem to be like children playing in the sand. They are not graceful and the hand postures and movements are not properly placed or executed. Nevertheless it was a nice try. Let's just hope you'll be doing better next time. MAbuhay kayo.
Dance anthropolist Ramon Obusan said that this dance was originally called Jota Florana, and was performed using the Ilocano/Yogad bamboo ensemble the "tallelet". The use of banduria, oktabina, gitara and bajo de uñas is a late adaptation. The tallelet music and so is the dance is performed during funeral procession which is quiet impossible for a rondalla. Remember too, there are the Desmayo (fainting) and Patay (death) steps in the dance!
The castanet used here is actually the Filipino "kalasteng buho" <bamboo clickers>different from ur castañuelas (chestnut wood clickers which are round and strung). The use of castanets in Pinoy dancing predates Spanish colonization. The Agalalukan Dance use seashells as clickers, the Bulah-bulah and Tagungguh use bamboo clickers similar to the one used here and so is the Subli. The only dance I know using the round castañeta is the very rare Spanish-influence Jota Ivatan from Batanes.
RACIST! It happened already, so deal with it. Viva Filipinas!
reasonableskeptic 2 years ago
Viva Filipinas!
Viva Hispanidad!
reasonableskeptic 2 years ago
Desde España felicidades por vuestra interpretación
jjherreban 4 years ago
Wow! Ang galing!
gqdr77 4 years ago
Mabuhay Cultural Club is a High School PCN group that has never received professional training. We just had the fortune and luxury to have the wonderful Hiyas Music Ensemble handle all the live instrumentals for our PCN... so our group should not be confused with the great Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company. I do appreciate the constructive criticism though--as it will indeed make our future performances better!
blueleopard 4 years ago
The musicians are Hiyas Music Ensemble. The dancers are high school Pilipino Culture Night dancers. They are only students who practice folk dancing informally. They are not to be mistaken with HIYAS PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE COMPANY! The Company music ensemble only assisted the HS function by providing them with the rondalla.
galinaciega 4 years ago
But you will not deny that the use of Spanish intruments as influenced in the music, the music is per se a spanish jota and so is the dance. In a local adatation but still...
arqueologo 4 years ago
You have a very good set of musicians to boast but your dancers need ALOT of improvement. The dancers seem to be like children playing in the sand. They are not graceful and the hand postures and movements are not properly placed or executed. Nevertheless it was a nice try. Let's just hope you'll be doing better next time. MAbuhay kayo.
keinsz 4 years ago
Dance anthropolist Ramon Obusan said that this dance was originally called Jota Florana, and was performed using the Ilocano/Yogad bamboo ensemble the "tallelet". The use of banduria, oktabina, gitara and bajo de uñas is a late adaptation. The tallelet music and so is the dance is performed during funeral procession which is quiet impossible for a rondalla. Remember too, there are the Desmayo (fainting) and Patay (death) steps in the dance!
keinsz 4 years ago
The castanet used here is actually the Filipino "kalasteng buho" <bamboo clickers>different from ur castañuelas (chestnut wood clickers which are round and strung). The use of castanets in Pinoy dancing predates Spanish colonization. The Agalalukan Dance use seashells as clickers, the Bulah-bulah and Tagungguh use bamboo clickers similar to the one used here and so is the Subli. The only dance I know using the round castañeta is the very rare Spanish-influence Jota Ivatan from Batanes.
keinsz 4 years ago