What is the National dance of the Philippines?

Question:

What is the National dance of the Philippines?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It used to be Tinikling. Now they changed it to "Carinosa". Who the heck are these people in the government declaring what should be our national dance? What is their basis? They think we are gullible enough to agree with them?

I disagree of their choice to make Carinosa as the National dance, not because I do not like the dance. It is because Carinosa is a performance dance. Besides, Carinosa is a choreographed dance and the base dance that it use is pandanggo!

A national dance should be one that can binds us, Filipinos together. It should be a dance that resonate to our collective psyche.

If there is a dance that should be declared as our national dance, it should be pandanggo. Why? Because:

1. Pandanggo is the precursor of other folk dances such as the Pandanggo sa Ilaw and Carinosa;
2. Pandanggo is still danced in many religious rituals such as the dance processions in Obando, Pasig and the Caracols of Cavite and Rizal;
3. Pandanggo is also the precursor of the Philippine Cha-cha, another variation of the Cha-cha-cha but Philippine style.

If they choose Carinosa, then it should be Pandanggo instead Carinosa.