The "Banga Dance" is performed during festivities as a way of entertaining the guests. The dance portrays the Kalinga tribal women as they illustrate their daily task of fetching water and balancing the banga along the mountainous rice terraces
"Banga" literally means a pot that is round or a spherical jar which is made of clay, used for fetching water. Kalinga women place coiled piece “jikon” that is made from a straw plant “ligis,” or they use a rolled cloth on their heads for support while carrying the banga. Heavy earthen pots, as many as seven or eight at a time, are balanced on the heads of maidens as they trudge to the beat of the "gangsa" or wind chimes.
***I was fortunate to watch a Banga dance performed in Villa Escudero, it was simply amazing.
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