HAKLARAN healing dance calling the benevolent spirits to heal and drive away the malevolent. The baylan (shaman) lead the ritual among the Umayamnon of Bukidnon.

BINAYLAN-BANOG The banog (hawk) stalks her prey - a mother hen and her chicks. The banog turns from hunter to hunted as baganis (hunters) spot her. In the jungle, the fittest survive.

PIGAGAWAN From the Bukidnons, courtship. The women outwit each other for the attention of a man.

KALIGA-PININTUKThe Bukidnon Tala-andig celebrates, and among them they mimc war (saut), offer praise to the supreme deity Magbabaya (dugso), copy the hawk's flight (binanog), and entertain (pinintuk).

KARATONG the folk from Cuyo, Palawan celebrate the feast of San Agustin. "Karatong" is from the bamboo instrument tied around the waist of the males whose beats provide the rhythms for the females.

LAPAY BANTIGUE in the island of Bantigue, Masbate, the folk and lapay (seagulls) await the fishermen who arrive from sea with boats of fish.

TINULTUGANFarmers celebrate bounty at harvest. They make music from short bamboo poles that signify the fertile rhythms of the earth.

The "Duyan" Themes.

UGOY NG DUYAN The Lucio San Pedro-Levi Celerio classic is the image of Motherhood. This dance vignette evokes lyricism, warmth and affection, all qualities of a Mother's relationship with her brood.

IDUYAN MO  Ryan Cayabyab's modern classic evokes the same feelings but with an upbeat feel.