Carinosa
Carinosa is a romantic coquettish common people dance set to a waltz-like 3/4 beat. A twosome expresses their feelings for each other with demure moves including playing hide-and-seek behind a hankie or a fan. Carinosa is known throughout the Philippines. Carinosa ( ‘kah-reehn-YOH-sah’ ) means fond. loveable or good-humored. With a fan or hankie. the terpsichoreans go through hide-and-seek motions and other chat uping Acts of the Apostless showing stamp feelings for one another. There are many versions of this dance but the hide-and-seek motions are common in all. Carinosa was introduced to the state by Spanish colonisers. Panay Island located in the Visaya island group is considered the place of the carinosa. Dancers perform carinosa to Spanish-style music played by a twine ensemble in 3/4 clip. Carinosa normally involves two terpsichoreans: one male, one female, who dance confronting one another. The word “carinosa” means “affectionate” or “lovable” in Spanish and this is a wooing dance.
The terpsichoreans don’t touch each other but their dance indicates their romantic involvement: They peek at each other around a hankie. exchange demure small moving ridges and bead to one articulatio genus while one spouse dances around the other. The first of all time published notation of the Carinosa dance stairss was from the book Philippine Folk Dances and Games by Francisca Reyes-Tolentino ( subsequently became an Aquino ). Mrs Tolentino’s master’s thesis which have the same rubric was revised and was subsequently published in 1927. However, the most common of the many Carinosa found in the state is the 1 from the book “Philippine Folk Dances v1” by Francisca Reyes Aquino published sometime in 1940. The version integrated all the common dance figures among the many versions throughout the land. Three versions of this courtship-festival dance were found in Panay Island the “Home of the Carinosa” . Three different dance research workers discovered three every bit beautiful Carinosa dances. Petronila Suarez had her Carinosa Binggawan. Jose Balcena’s source an old dance ace name Casimiro earned him the individuality of Balcena’s carinosa version: Tatay Meroy Carinosa.
Tatay Meroy
Tatay Meroy was an old unmarried man from Roxas City who because of old age became aggressive in his courtship of a future spouse. This version dramatizes Tatay Mero’s chase of his spouse who teases him by chat uping. Prolific Visayan dance research workers Libertad Fajardo and her girl Joanne discovered a Carinosa version from San Joaquin, Iloilo. The San Joaquin carinosa is likely the most coquettish of all known versions. Here, the twosome does non merely make some hide and go seek in a vertically dispersed hankie but besides does the combing of each partner’s hair and even seting a pulverization whiff! This version is ended with a dance hall walk-in where the twosome goes around the dance floor in close dance hall place. The Carinosa was besides really popular in Samar where it is called Pandanggyado Carinosa or merely Pandanggyado in’ Samar. A carinosa from Bicol discovered by Ramon Obusan in Rapu-rapu. Albay is a really alone song-dance or sayawit. The hide-and-seek uses a foldable fan instead than the common prop: hankie. A really alone Bicolnon dance measure called binanog is outstanding throught the dance where it was originally used as an intermission. The Carinosa is believed to hold replaced the popular Tinikling as the “National Dance of the Philippines” in 1992. However, harmonizing to the Philippine Information Agency the Tinikling is so the “National Dance of the Philippines”.
The Stairss
The basic footwork is similar to the stairss used in a walk-in: You move around the floor by stepping to the side with your left pes so traveling your right pes next to your left. You finish off this series of three motions by tapping your left pes on the floor. Repeat this sequence of stairss this clip get downing by stepping to the side with your right pes. Spins are another cardinal component of carinosa. They take up the last two bars of an eight-bar sequence. If you’re the male half of the dancing brace you either turn up your custodies behind your dorsum or set your custodies on your hips. The best manner to believe of this modified hands-on-hips airs is to do certain your pollexs point inward toward your waist and your brass knuckss rest on your love grips even if you don’t hold them. If you’re the female keep your skirt up a few inches off the floor by taking each side of your skirt between your pollex and index. You can either make two bends. one for each three-beat saloon or one bend on the first three-beat saloon. For the latter you merely stand still for the last three-beat saloon. You’ll ever turn to the right.
The Propss
Female carinosa terpsichoreans frequently use fans. If you’re the female terpsichorean you open your fan by giving it a steadfast shingle. Once it’s unfastened merely fan yourself to the music fiting each downward motion of the fan with one round in the three-beat saloon. The handkerchief hide and go seek is a cardinal component of carinosa. Each spouse holds two corners of the hankie and stand confronting each other keeping the hankie so it blocks the position of the other partner’s face. On the first round of the three-beat musical saloon both spouses lean to the right side and peep at each other around the hankie. They hold for a round. so. on the 3rd and concluding round of the saloon they return to an unsloped place. keeping the hankie so it is barricading the faces once more. On the first round of the following saloon the spouses flip the hankie while still keeping it so if one spouse had been keeping the top two corners. he’s now keeping the bottom two corners or frailty versa. As they do so they lean to the side and peep at the other spouse around the hankie once more. This series of motions continues for six bars in entire ; for the last two bars of the eight-bar subdivision the spouses switch topographic points by waltzing about each other while still keeping the hankie. This full sequence repetition. The hide-and-seek sequence can be performed with a fan alternatively of a hankie. The female terpsichorean of the carinosa brace holds her skirt with one or both custodies squeezing the cloth of the skirt with the pollex and index at the side at about mid-thigh degree.
