Art of the Philippines the southern part of the Philippines, there is another dance called Singkil using long bamboo poles found in tinikling; however, it is primarily a dance showing off lavish Muslim royalty. In this dance, there are four bamboo sticks arranged in a tic-tac-toe pattern in which the dancers exploit every position of these clashing sticks. Dancers can be found trying to avoid all 4 bamboo sticks all together in the middle. They can also try to dance an entire rotation around the middle avoiding all sticks. Usually these stick dances performed in teamwork fashion not solo. The Singkil dance is identifiable
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