Almost every Filipino who went through school remembers learning folk dances.The borrowed costumes. The rushed rehearsals. The struggle of memorizing steps to d ...

AS Japan and the Philippines prepare to mark 70 years of diplomatic relations, a Tokyo-based Filipino folk dance troupe is uplifting Japanese audiences and bringing the two nations closer through the ...

Are you ready to learn the easiest Filipino folk dances with steps? The Philippine folk dance steps look similar which makes it easy to learn even for beginners with no background in Filipino folk ...

A “Gen Z” performance of a traditional Philippine folk dance by students from Georgia Institute of Technology went viral on social media. The university’s Filipino Student Association performed a ...

PLEASANT HILL — As a little girl, Isabelle Bollas had been curious about her Filipino American heritage and when she had the chance to join a Philippine folk dance troupe when she was 8, a new world ...

The Filipino American Performing Artists of North Carolina is bringing back its free summer workshop in Raleigh at The Blue Jay Point County Park Saturday, July 2. The event had been canceled due to ...

Take a two-hour tour through the Philippines, from the rural countryside to the central regions, to the north and in between, all through the art of dance during the Concert of Traditional Philippine ...

What’s a Filipino feast without music and dancing? Well, not really a feast.“But it can be hard to coax men onto the dance floor, which I guess is what women say in every culture,” Elvie Smith, ...

The state-supported dance company as a tool of cultural diplomacy has only recently been discussed as a chosen collection of images that promote ethnic and national pride. But that’s not something ...

Forty years ago, Isabel Piana made her Folk Fair debut when her group performed the traditional "Singkil" dance. This weekend, she reprises the role of the "umbrella girl" at the 67th edition of ...

Another dance introduced by the Spaniards to Filipinos is the Cariñosa. This folk dance can best be described as a courtship dance with flirtatious movements. The basic movements are three steps and ...