Boys in their coloful costumes (girls in background) Girls practice bamboo dance at rehearsal
September 24, 2005
In the evening the Cebu South Stake had a Cultural Evening with youth from the five wards presenting native dances. Bob took pictures at the practice on Friday night as well as at the event on Saturday night. Our favorite type of dancing is called 'tininklin' and is done with long bamboo sticks as shown in the photo. The boys, each holding one end of the stick, tap them on the ground or wooden block twice and then clap them together about 8 inches in the air in a rhythm of tap, tap, clap, tap, tap, clap. The girls (in this case) dance beside and between the sticks in very lovely patterns with graceful hand movements - and quickly so they don't get caught when the sticks come together. One dance had a group of girls. Another dance told a story of a prince finding his princess. And the prince and the princess and a girl holding an umbrella over the princess all danced around and between four bamboo poles in a criss cross pattern. Very intricate and lovely.
