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TINIKLING: TENSION TO TREASURE

Cover photo by: Tony Magdaraog / Shutterstock.com. Image Description: A picture of a dance troupe in colorful attires, in action, with four members dancing over bamboo poles held by the clappers and other dancers in the background.

Tinikling is one of the best-known folk dances in the Philippines. It originated in Leyte during the Spanish occupation of the country. Tinikling was born out of the need of local Filipinos to survive the punishment of standing between two bamboo poles, which were then clapped together.  The word tinikling came from the name of […]