A minute-long video post on the Facebook page of the Philippine Embassy in Moscow showing Russian university students dancing the tinikling has gone viral, climbing to almost a million views, with over 50,000 reactions and 5,000 shares.
LET’S DANCE Moscow Lomonosov State University students, some of whom major in Philippine Studies, perform the tinikling. A post of this performance on the Philippine Embassy in Moscow FB page has since gone viral
According to Ambassador Bailen, the video emanated from the Philippine Independence Day festivities at the embassy, the first such community fellowship since 2019 owing to the pandemic. With face masks and other safety protocols lifted in Moscow, about a thousand, including many Russian friends, attended the day-long celebration of Filipino culture, cuisine, and camaraderie.
Ambassador Bailen revealed that their performance was not even originally in the program. “Sometime in May, my embassy colleagues excitedly sent me a clip of their performance at their school, and I thought to myself, it would be a sin not to share this very beautiful dialogue of cultures with a larger audience.
Tinikling is arguably the most famous Philippine traditional folk dance, with at least two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other while one or more dancers hop, jump, and turn over them, avoiding getting caught and injured between the poles. It is usually accompanied by rondalla music, a sort of serenade by an ensemble of stringed instruments.
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