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There are
ethnic dance companies and there are ethnic
dance companies. Bayanihan, the pride of the
Philippines, remains one of the best.
LOS ANGELES
TIMES, 1969
It is
reassuring to note that among the countries
in the world which is meeting this challenge
to the performing arts is the Philippines
through the Bayanihan Dance Company. The
dancers have brought their rich cultural
heritage to the festival and stimulated a
searching and a question for our own
heritage. The Lord Mayor Adelaide has called
the group "the toast of the Adelaide Flair."
MOLLY TAIT,
ADVERTISER, 1964
What the
United States needs in Southeast Asia is a
good Folk Dance Troupe, like the Bayanihan
dancers from the Philippines. The
diplomats, the military cloak-and-dagger
boys don't seem to be accomplishing too much
for our side in that part of the world, but
if our dancers could do half as much for us
as the Bayanihan did for its country, our
ambassadors should again be able to walk the
street of foreign cities without an armed
guard.
ALFRED
FRANKENSTEIN, SAN FRANCISCO
SUNDAY,
CHRONICLE, 1964
We have
recently had three vastly different examples of folk dance
performances designed for spectators - the Polish company
called Mazowse, which closes tonight at the City Center; the
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, which paid us a brief
visit recently at the Metropolitan Opera House: the African
Carnical, which took over one of the armonies last weekend
as a kind of ad hoc organization for charity
Of these the
Filipinos were artistically the most successful. For one
thing, they have put their dances into a visual setting and
have achieved thereby a genuine theatre dimension.
For another
thing, they are perhaps blessed with a greater variety of
material at their disposal. For a third thing, they have
grouped their material into self-contained units so that
they become almost like the acts of a play, and build in a
steady progression.
JOHN
MARTIN, NEW YORK TIMES, 1961
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