There were multiple Filipino dance troupes that practiced regularly and performed in the early 2000s. Participation waned over the years, but David Abad, who grew up in Juneau’s Filipino community, wants to revive it.
Ell Pecson tries out tinikling at the Zach Gordon Youth Center in Juneau on June 29, 2022.
Tinikling is a traditional folk dance from the Visayas region of the Philippines. Two people get on either end of two long bamboo poles and clap them together. Dancers jump in and out of the poles in between claps, deftly keeping from getting their ankles whacked. They look like the dance’s namesake tikling bird trying to avoid a foot snare set by rice farmers.David Abad teaching tinikling to youth at the Zach Gordon Youth Center in Juneau on June 29, 2022.
It took awhile to get the rhythm down: Click, click, clap. Click, click, clap. But once it got going, you could see it getting stuck in everyone’s head. Abad was lit up. He wants people to get back into tinikling. He wants to teach and coach and choreograph for a troupe.
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