Dancing at Pride and Heritage

In the spirit of getting more involved with my local community, I answered a call for dancers for a Philippine Folk Dance act in this year's Pride & Heritage celebration

The 7th annual Pride & Heritage celebration for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is set for Saturday evening, May 6, 2006 at Club Chaos. Volunteers from DC area queer API groups have organized an awards ceremony to honor local advocates who have worked tirelessly to increase the visibility of our communities. The program will also feature cultural entertainment celebrating our respective API heritages.

Originally, we were going to learn Jota Paragua, which is a very dramatic Maria Clara dance with flamenco style footwork and castanets. But, that just got changed to performing Maglalatik. Should be interesting...

Practices start April 1, so more to come later.

In the mean time, check out this sample video of Maglalatik (warning, it's a movie, so it's a big file and may take a couple minutes to load depending on your connection)