Philippines Tinikling, where a band of Rondalya musicians play along with the percussive beat of the two bamboo poles. It usually starts with men and women acting a scene about "How rural townsfolk mingle". The dancers then graze thru the clashing of the bamboo poles held on opposite sides. The end displays the paired bamboo poles crossing each other. The Muslim version of this where bamboo poles are also used is called the Singkil. Cariñosa is a Hispanic Filipino dance, unofficially considered as the "National Dance of the Philippines". It's a courtship dance which involves a woman holding a fan or
Traditional games in the Philippines begins with the garters at ankle-height and progresses to higher positions, with the players jumping nimbly on the garters while doing their routines. A game variant of the tinikling dance, with the same goal—for the players to dance nimbly over the clapping bamboo "maw" without having their ankles caught. Once the players ankle got caught, they will replace the players who hold the bamboo. The game will just continue until players decided to stop. Tsato (lit. "stick game", "better be good at it"): Two players, one flat stick (usually ) and one short flat piece of wood ( usually a