Kommunity Kultura presents Singkil
Sat, Sep 21
|International Manila Hotel Center
"Kommunity Kultura" is a traditional Philippine music, movement and cultural education program taking place at San Francisco's International Hotel Manilatown Center once a month on third Saturday afternoons at 2pm. This program emphasizes hands-on instruction on the pre-colonial Philippine cultural.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2019, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
International Manila Hotel Center, 868 Kearny Street San Francisco CA
About the event
This month we will be focusing on the dance Singkil and the kulintang musical accompaniment for this dance.
2pm: Singkil Music Workshop with Daniel Giray and the I-Hotel’s house kulintang ensemble Kultura Kapwa 3pm: Beginning Singkil Dance with Kultura Kapwa’s Marcella Pabros-Clark
Singkil originated from the Maranao people who inhabit the shores of Lake Lanao in Mindanao. The dance is a re-telling of an episode from the Maranao epic legend Darangen. A kulintang and agung ensemble oftentimes accompanies the dance.
The female lead dancer plays the role of Princess Gandingan of the Darangen epic. In an episode of the Maranao epic, the princess is caught in the middle of a forest during an earthquake caused by the diwatas (or the guardian spirits) of the Kingdom of Bumbaran. The falling trees during the earthquake are represented by bamboo poles arranged in a criss-crossed fashion and clacked together in a unique, syncopated rhythm.…