The dance involves two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. Two or more dancers then weave through the rapidly moving bamboo poles with bare feet and ankles. The dancers must carefully follow the rhythm so as not to get their ankles caught between the poles as they snap closed. They start the dance with their hands at their hips or clasped behind their backs. The tempo of the bamboo poles becomes faster as the dance progresses, forcing the dancers closer together as their movements become more frantic. The dancers hold hands at the last part of the dance when the tempo is the fastest. They end the dance by letting go of each other's hands and stepping out entirely of the moving bamboo poles.
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TINIKLING ORIGIN:
Tinikling is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated during the Spanish colonial era. The name tinikling is a reference to birds locally known as tikling, which can be any of a number of rail species, but more specifically refers to the slaty-breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus), the buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), and the barred rail (Gallirallus torquatus). The term tinikling literally means "to perform it tikling-like."
TINIKLING COSTUME:
Women wear the balintawak, a dress with wide-arched sleeves and a panuelo or handkerchief on the shoulder. Some women wear the patadyong, a checkered skirt paired with a blouse made from pineapple fiber. And the men wear common formal attire called the barong Tagalog.
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