The Minasbate language (msb), otherwise known as Masbatenyo (or Masbateńo), belongs to the Bisayan subgroup of Central Philippines, which is a member of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family (Simons & Fennig 2018).
Keywords: festival, participation, local history notions, phenomenological study However, they learned a little of local history as part of the town’s culture since their experience focused more on the aesthetics of dancing. Finally, through their yearly participation, participants became culture learners. Also, the following were considered as factors for participation the school encouragement, participation and parent’s decision, friends’ participation, and the trainer’s skills and attitude towards training. The experiences revealed that participation was important because of the expectation of the kins and the community, and their personal interest in dancing. Using Groenewalds Five Steps of Explicitation Process, eight themes emerged as essence of their experiences. The results of this study provided valuable insights on the importance of participation, the factors affecting it and what is learned by the dance performers particularly in the context of local history and culture. The study site is a public high school with the highest number of enrolees in the whole municipality of Dingle, Iloilo Province in 2013. Data came from personal interviews, narrative texts of the experience, focused group discussions (FGD) and all locally saved documents.
ABSTRACT Since festivals are manifestations of the value that give the Visayans their beginnings (Funtecha, 1986), this phenomenological study explored the meaning, structure and essence of the experiences of high school dance performers in the Pagdihon Festival in Dingle, Iloilo to locate Local History notions.
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