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When Suzie Moya Benitez, Bayanihan's executive director, wanted a name for the projected supershow involving Bayanihan and the visiting Folklorical Group from the island of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, the word "re-encuerto" (re-encounter) was given. She paused to think and found the word "warlike" for that is the word for "shoot-out" in present day Tagalog and Visayan. So "re-encuentro" would not do. The lady opted for another given word "mestizaje" which means "fusion", "unity", a dynamic step forward". She directed the use of "reencuentro" for the suite where both Bayanihan and Palma de Mallorca dancers do dances to the same music of the jota, the fandnago and the bolero.
And indeed, "Mestizaje" is the right word for this new meeting with folklorical Spain of the Mallorcan variety.
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