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...troupe has an active repertory of some 40 folk dances practiced in all areas of the Philippines, from the mountain villages of the north to the Moslem country of the south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping...
Hunters & Bali Girls. In the late fall Dr. Ellinger organized his first Abenlen expedition, but came back to his classes emptyhanded. At Christmas time he tried again. Leaving his Igorot wife behind in Bontoc, he traveled with a photographer and an experienced guerrilla to the outskirts of a small village in the Zambales foothills. There he found a family of Abenlens. All 15 of them were living in a single grass hut eight feet square...
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