[music] >> hello i'm jonathan mercado and we're going to be be dancing up next, from the southern part of the philippines. our culture are salmonal with influences of work from papa laqid and mahala family. it's a festival dance done mainly for celebrations like weddings, birthdays, so but the true, the true root is precolonial prehis lamic. it will be one on the phone and one on playing the tambul. and those are traditional used for sagan in calina. >> hello again, i'm milet and this next dance you will see is from the taboli people, south cotobato in southern philippines. the dance is tal malatic and it's during the festival called moony moon. the ladies will be performing traditional taboli movement and the men will be performing a warrior dance. >> for many of us growing up in the filipino we developed a hunger not just to learn our culture but our passion. and the great work about our work is we center our work around working with the culture barriers from the indigenous communities that we represent. it's not what we would call authentic, but we do add our artistic elements to ou