Tinikling - the Bamboo Dance
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1996.6.28
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Martin Moyer Productions
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content: Martin Moyer film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 620 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film made by Martin Moyer for educational use demonstrates how a popular and well-known traditional Philippine folk dance is adapted into a modern physical education activity. The tinikling involves two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. Collaborators are Dennis D. Meyer, Physical Education, Seattle Public Schools and Flora Consego, Instructor, Caba' Taan Folk Dancers, Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle.

Supplementary materials: photographs, synopses, study guide with transcription of narration, promotional materials, newspaper articles