Igorot Dance Video - Maryland

There is an Igorot Dance video taken during the 18th anniversary of the Philippine International Bible Church of Montgomery County, in Maryland last month. What's special about the video is that it had my sister and my brother-in-law amongst the dancers. While my brother-in-law is a natural dancer, I haven't seen my sister dance that much. And, this is the second time I saw them dance together (though with other dancers) since they got married more than 8 years ago. Check this video from the Igorot Video Collection website.

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Igorot Dances - Pictures

I am slowly transferring all my webpages from the sagada-igorot.com website into this blog. I just copied over 2 articles on Igorot Dances; and I have some left-over pictures. I can't remember where I got these 12-year old photographs. If some kind soul out there can let me know, I'd appreciate it very much.

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Igorot Photo of the Year?

With 9 more months remaining in this year, can we just agree that the above photo is the Igorot Photo of the Year? It was taken during the 2009 Lang-ay Festival in Bontoc, Mountain Province. Photo Credit: Inkblog's Flickr Gallery

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Lang-ay Festival 2009 - Photos and a Blog

The Garden of Grace blog has the meatiest content on the Lang-ay Festival 2009 that I've seen so far. Photos, a video and a blog post capture a lot of the activities during the festival.

The St. Louis University Dance Troupe apparently took part in the street dancing on April 7. This Flickr photo gallery has just a few but very high quality photos.

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Lang-ay Festival 2009 - Photos, Videos, Blogs and News

This is a placeholder post for the Lang-ay Festival 2009 Photos, Blogs, News and Videos. The festival has completed and there's almost no coverage in the local news. Maybe bloggers will need time to post videos and photos so I can filter those I find interesting. The above photograph was taken from the TRIBASIA.com website which I think is being considered as a spam site by Google. I'll be updating this post as data trickles in.

April 6, 2009 Video: A Bontoc Welcome to the Lang-ay Festival -

Other Links: Lang–ay fest opens with calls to preserve culture and env’t

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Lang-ay Festival 2009 is On-going

Mountain Province's biggest crowd drawer is currently on-going. The Lang-ay Festival which started on 2004 will be featuring an agro-industrial fair, tribal sports, indigenous games and exhibits, a fashion show, and cultural dance presentations including the much anticipated street dancing parade on the last day of the festival. The town of Barlig has consistently performed well in the street dancing category and will be a favorite again this year. Hoping to end Barlig's reign will be entries from Bauko, Besao, Bontoc, Natonin, Paracelis, Sabangan, Sadangga, Sagada, and Tadian. I'll definitely be rooting for Sagada to do well. E-esten yo!

Links: 2009 Lang-ay Festival Program of Activities; Lang-ay Festival Photo Gallery 1; Lang-ay Festival Photo Gallery 2; Lang-ay Festival Youtube Videos

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Panagbenga 2009 Photos and Videos

Check this out. I'm seeing photos and videos of the street dancing competitions for Baguio City's Panagbenga 2009 Festival in the Inquirer.net VDO webpage. More than 20 schools participated in the parade, and Baguio played host to 300,000 visitors during the week. The float competition starts March 1. The first float to roll down Session Road will be that of the Baguio Country Club (BCC). The cost for this massive float alone is a staggering P320,000 - add this to the P170,000 bill for the accompanying dancers and their costumes and you have the BCC spending almost half a million pesos for this year's celebration!

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In a Scooter...

From the British Broadcasting Company's April 16 Daily Pictures,

Igorot tribesman Robert Duyugan rides his wooden scooter in a race as the Filipino town of Banaue celebrates the traditional Imbayah festival. Igorot tribesmen are renowned for their woodcarvings.

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