TINIKLING - Philippine National Dance (2017 UCLA PCN Filipino Tinikling)

The Tinikling dance from Philippines is a very intriguing dance style said to have originated by imitating the movements of a bird – the Tikling bird. This folk dance originated from the Leyte island in the Philippines. This dance is said to be traditionally performed to ‘Rondalla’ music and involves two people tapping and moving bamboo poles on the ground and against each other with the dancers hopping and dancing in the blocks thus formed by the bamboo poles. This folk dance in the Philippines, basically involves imitation of movements seen in a bird known as ‘Tikling’. Apart from being performed in the Philippines, this dance style is also extremely popular in the United States of America and is taught in schools as a component of physical education. (https://danceask.net/tinikling-dance-philippines/)