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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Tuesday, November,24, 1974''

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By DIANE ELLIOT
The Bayanihan Dance Com-
pany of the Philippines, which
graced the stage of Hill Aud.
Saturday night, is truly a feast
for eye and ear. Now in its
twelfth year, the group comes to
us from its home base, the Bay-
anihan Folk Arts Center in
Manila, under the artistic di-
rection of Lucrecia R. Urtula,
and is currently in the midst of
a fourteen month tour of the
United States and Europe.
Fourteen months is a long
time away from home for the
young members of the company,
most of whom are college stu-
dents or young professionals
and have been involved in folk
dancing since their teens. Just
now they live a rather harried
existence, traveling each day,
performing each n i g h t, then
being whisked off again immed-
iately after the performance to-
ward hotel-room-rest and an-
other audience. But they are
enthusiastic emmissaries of their
nation's diverse and colorful folk
culture, and the smiling assur-
ance and graceful skill with
which they performed dance
after, intricate dande' did not
betray the strain of their hectic
schedule.
In the five dance suites which
comprise an evening's perform-
ance, the company recreates the-
movement and rhythms, songs
and rituals of several of the
many cultures which have flour-
ished in the Islands. "Bayani-
han" means "working together"
in Tagalog, the official language
of the Philippines, and the com-
pany succeeds in weaving di-
verse cultural threads into a
colorful and pleasing fabric.
The Prologue, with its .proces-
sion of gently treading women
and its loin-clothed warrior
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chiefs sealing a pact of peace,
set the tone for a performance
which celebrated with equal
verve and skill the customs and
dress of the superstitious na-
tives of the bush, the aristo-
cratic Spanish quarter of old
Manila, the exotic war-like Mus-
lims of Mindanao, and depicted
both ancient tribal mythology
and the present-day good-na-
tured cooperation and festival
spirit of the Filipinos.
Staged with a theatrical so-
phistication w h i c h belied the
ingenuous style of performance,
the dances combined weaving
b o d i e s, songs and rhythmic
accompaniment, brilliant cos-
tumes, swords, fans, parasols-
often with breathtaking effect.
In the first suite, the stage vi-
brated with compelling native
rhythms, accentuated by t h e
resounding smacks of the war-
riors' flat wooden shields, then
quieted to a pulsing murmur for
the serene, gently swaying walk
of the women, bearing tall eb-
ony water jars on their heads.
A skillfully plucked guitar ac-
companied the Spanish-flavored
coquetry of the second suite, the
girls dipping and turning and
playfully kickingdup their flow-
ing trains as smiling young men
vied for their attention. In their
enactment of a Muslim mar-
riage ritual, the m e n flashed
scimitars and whirled to t h e
frenzied beating of the drum,
while the betrothed couple, fac-
es impassive in glittering masks,
struck the ritual postures, play-
ing provocatively w i t h a red.
sash.
The final suite, title "Bayan-
ihan." portrayed t h e carefree
cheerfulness of th e rural is-
landers: a group of leaping boys
saucily rapped out staccato rhy-
thms on polished coconuts
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strapped to their chests and
shoulders. The bamboo pole
dances, "Singkil" and "Tinik-
ling," now classics of the com-
pany's repertoire, highlighted
the evening's performance. Nim-
ble dancers calmly picked their
way with ever increasing speed
among the sets of clashing
bamboo poles; in "Singkil" the
girls gestured gracefully with
fans a n d parasols while the
poles beat dangerously beneath
their skipping feet.
The art of the Bayanihan is
one of contrasts, subsuming as
it does the customs of diverse
cultures and interweaving the
masculine with t he feminine,
the lyric with the percussive, the
brash with the subtle. Ameri-
can audiences, accustomed to
the superhuman technical dis-
play of the best of our o w n
0 dance companies or the energy-
packed clowning of a folk bal-
let like the Moiseyev, will find
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of dance experience. Vital beat
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structure of beautifully solemn
ritual. And always the kaleide-
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