Photo screen grab: Imelda de Guzman YT |
Cordillera - A Filipina student in Taiwan had shown and proven that the traditional dance popular in the north of the Philippines can be blended with modern hip-hop music.
Emelda de Guzman, with an Ifugao descent, proudly represented her tribe and country when she performed the Ifugao traditional dance in front of several foreign students during the 2018 Foreign Students Chinese Public Speaking Competition at the National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei Taiwan.
In her performance, Guzman was dressed in her traditional colorful "tapis". She started her dance with a the usual slow and graceful movements with the traditional Ifugao song. After 2 minutes mark, the crowd in attendance begin to rap with a hip-hop beat, according to taiwannews.com.
Guzman has nothing to do with the more louder music but to changed her tempo to match the hip-hop beat but still performing the Ifugao dance move.
The audience in the hall, who are mostly her fellow students, clapped to the beat and cheered Guzman until the end of her performance.
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During an interview, Guzman said the event was an opportunity for her to represent her country. She competed with more that 60 students from 14 different countries in the 46th edition of the annual competition.
Guzman is a student currently taking a Chinese language course at National Chenchi University and has been living in Taiwan for 15 months.
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Watch Guzman's performance below
1 Comments:
Nice though but in fairness, the presentation was a combination(more) of Kalinga and Ifugao native dance. Also, the tapis displays typically a Kalinga, the song was a tune also from Kalinga. Nice!
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