bamboo dance
Filipino clapping poles
A bamboo dance is a folk dance performed by stepping between bamboo poles that are rhythmically clapped together at ground level.
Dancers must time their steps precisely to avoid getting their feet caught as the poles open and close.
The dance appears in various forms across Southeast Asian and Pacific Island cultures, including the Philippine tinikling and similar traditions in Thailand, Malaysia, and Hawaii.
- tiniklingFilipino folk dance
- PhilippinesSoutheast Asian archipelago nation
- Southeast AsiaTropical peninsula and islands
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- ThailandSoutheast Asian kingdom
agility · beat · coordination · jump · festival · ritual · folk tradition · cultural heritage · traditional costume · choreography · quick feet · celebration · percussion instruments · timing · pole · step · hopping · ceremony
- Southeast Asian Dancehand gestures, headdresses, theatrical masks, Nora, Ram
- Asian performanceBeijing opera, Peking opera, Chinese opera, acrobatics, shadow puppetry
- Chakmapinon, traditional weaving, raja, traditional dress, marriage rituals
- MizoramMara
- Vietnamese artsfolk opera, court music, folk theater, ho, vi
- Formosan PeoplesTao, indigenous tribes, aboriginal tribes, mountain tribes
bamboo dancecourt dance
Formal aristocratic choreography
ballet · waltz · ballroom dance · minuet · classical ballet