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The Philippine province of Sorsogon has just set a new world record.
Officials from the Guinness World Records were on hand on Thursday, October 31, as more than 8,000 people joined the synchronised “Pantomina”, a regional folk dance also known as the “dove dance", which mimics courtship or doves flying.
“A new world record is now awarded to Sorsogon Province for the first Filipino synchronized folk dancing execution, Mabuhay ang mga Sorsoganon (love live the people of Sorsogon),” declared the provincincial spokesperson on Thursday.
The folk music was broadcast over public radio and pumped by loudspeakers arrayed on the main city roads in the provincial capital, also known as Sorsogon, all the way to the local pier.
The province is popular for its "Butanding" (whaleshark) tourism, hot springs (Irosin town), wave surfing (in Gubat town) and Pili nuts. The province has a land area about thrice bigger than Singapore, though access isn't easy as the peninsula doesn't have a functioning airport.
The official Pantomina dance execution for the Guinness World Records kicked off at 5 pm local time, participated in by the new governor, Chiz Escudero, a former Philippines Senator, and his wife, actress Heart Evangelista.
Pantomina is a Bicolano folk dance that came the Spanish word for “pantomime”, because of its courting/wooing movements. Its old name, Salampati, meaning “doves”, so the dance is sometimes referred to as the “dance of the doves”.
This folk dance is traditionally performed during wedding celebrations by the couple and their visitors. No social gathering in the Bicol Region, a volcanic, gold and mineral-rich region in eastern Philippines, is complete without the Pantomina.
To this day, the dance remains extremely popular in the Bicol Region and has come to symbolise the region, synonymous with Pili nuts, Bicol Express, the majestic Mayon Volcano (still active) and its magnificent beaches.
Officials from the Guinness World Records were on hand on Thursday, October 31, as more than 8,000 people joined the synchronised “Pantomina”, a regional folk dance also known as the “dove dance", which mimics courtship or doves flying.
“A new world record is now awarded to Sorsogon Province for the first Filipino synchronized folk dancing execution, Mabuhay ang mga Sorsoganon (love live the people of Sorsogon),” declared the provincincial spokesperson on Thursday.
The folk music was broadcast over public radio and pumped by loudspeakers arrayed on the main city roads in the provincial capital, also known as Sorsogon, all the way to the local pier.
The province is popular for its "Butanding" (whaleshark) tourism, hot springs (Irosin town), wave surfing (in Gubat town) and Pili nuts. The province has a land area about thrice bigger than Singapore, though access isn't easy as the peninsula doesn't have a functioning airport.
The official Pantomina dance execution for the Guinness World Records kicked off at 5 pm local time, participated in by the new governor, Chiz Escudero, a former Philippines Senator, and his wife, actress Heart Evangelista.
Pantomina is a Bicolano folk dance that came the Spanish word for “pantomime”, because of its courting/wooing movements. Its old name, Salampati, meaning “doves”, so the dance is sometimes referred to as the “dance of the doves”.
This folk dance is traditionally performed during wedding celebrations by the couple and their visitors. No social gathering in the Bicol Region, a volcanic, gold and mineral-rich region in eastern Philippines, is complete without the Pantomina.
To this day, the dance remains extremely popular in the Bicol Region and has come to symbolise the region, synonymous with Pili nuts, Bicol Express, the majestic Mayon Volcano (still active) and its magnificent beaches.
