holiday folk fair Filipino dancer reprises original role at Holiday Folk Fair. Forty years ago, Isabel Piana made her Folk Fair debut when her group performed the traditional "Singkil" dance.

MANILA, Philippines — A Danish LEGO bricks model has done the Filipino folk dance “singkil” during the commemoration of the 75th year of the Philippine-Denmark bilateral relations.

For folk dancing aficionados, the 11th Fiesta Folkloriada will be held on Dec. 17 where award-winning dance companies from Serbia, Russia, Slovakia, New Zealand and Guam will perform back-to-back ...

Dance Company members of Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble gather before the 23rd Annual Pistahan Parade and Festival on August 14, 2016 in San Francisco. Michael Noble Jr./ The Chronicle ...

Filipino food, music, dance and culture will be celebrated all weekend at the annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture, better known as FPAC. The festival runs Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11 ...

One folk dance, "Magtanim Hindi Biro," was inspired by the laborious task of planting rice. Another, "Mamang Sorbetero," paid homage to the well-loved ice cream man, who brings relief on a hot ...

The Philippines is a nation composed of 7,000 islands, 2,000 of which are inhabited. Isabel Santos, artistic director of Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company, figures that her audiences ...