Voyadores” Dance Notation in the Promotion of Nagueǹo Culture

Technological advances pose a greater risk in the preservation of local culture where it gives a connection to the past in the identification of customs and traditions, social values, and beliefs. This is a qualitative study which analyzed dance performance and dance movement aligned in the preservation of cultural context. Respondents were purposively selected from known choreographers of the “voyadores” street dance during the yearly celebration of the Bicolandia’s patroness for two years. Delphi techniques like congregating questions among experts were used to gather data. Results revealed that dance performance has displayed distinct feature and movement characteristics that manifest regional beliefs, customs, and traditions through exquisite body language that displayed veneration, protection, and respect. It was further clarified that part of the dance creation process is the comprehensive planning with the school and LGU tourism as one of the In-charge of the event, distinct movements’ organization like movements identification commonly expressed like walking in a procession, clapping, chaining arm among men, compressed formation, crawling on top of the shoulder and heads of “voyadores”, storyline conceptualization, and capacitating dancers like enjoining them for creative concepts making voyadores nuances came into a dance pattern. Making “Voyadores” performance as a theme for literary and other performance art in school and LGU enhanced the promotion of Nagueño Culture. Also, dance notation intensifies the preservation of “voyadores” dance in the Region by replicating local performances utilizing notated manuscripts thus local culture is appraised and noted every time an audience observed “voyadores” dance performance. Likewise, the study can explore the interface meeting of dance notation manuscripts with the developed software for movement re-construction.

Keywords –Creation, Ethnography, Dance performance, Movement recording