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    Leonor Orosa Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance who made pioneering contributions to Philippine dance and theater over her 50-year career. She choreographed the first Philippine folkloric ballet "Return to the Natives" and the legendary tour "Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore" which elevated native folk dance and dramatized Filipino culture. She was honored with numerous awards including being named the National Artist for Dance in 1976 in recognition of dedicating her life to elevating Philippine dance as a high art form.

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    Leonor Orosa Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance who made pioneering contributions to Philippine dance and theater over her 50-year career. She choreographed the first Philippine folkloric ballet "Return to the Natives" and the legendary tour "Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore" which elevated native folk dance and dramatized Filipino culture. She was honored with numerous awards including being named the National Artist for Dance in 1976 in recognition of dedicating her life to elevating Philippine dance as a high art form.

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    Leonor Orosa Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance who made pioneering contributions to Philippine dance and theater over her 50-year career. She choreographed the first Philippine folkloric ballet "Return to the Natives" and the legendary tour "Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore" which elevated native folk dance and dramatized Filipino culture. She was honored with numerous awards including being named the National Artist for Dance in 1976 in recognition of dedicating her life to elevating Philippine dance as a high art form.

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    Leonor Orosa Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance who made pioneering contributions to Philippine dance and theater over her 50-year career. She choreographed the first Philippine folkloric ballet "Return to the Natives" and the legendary tour "Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore" which elevated native folk dance and dramatized Filipino culture. She was honored with numerous awards including being named the National Artist for Dance in 1976 in recognition of dedicating her life to elevating Philippine dance as a high art form.

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    SHANNEN DHANA C.

    BULACLAC DDM 1-A

    LEONOR OROSA GOQUINGCO


    National Artist For Dance
    July 24, 1917 – July 15, 3005
    ■ A Filipino national artist in creative dance.
    She played the piano, drew art, designed
    scenery and costumes, sculpted, acted,
    directed, danced and choreographed.
    ■ A pioner Filipino choreographer known to
    many as “The trailblazer,” “The mother of
    Philippine theater dance,” and “Dean Of
    Filipino performing arts critics.”
    She has produced stunning choreographies during
    her 50-year career, highlighted by “Filipinescas:
    Philippine life, legend, and love,” which elevated
    native folk dance to its highest stage of
    development.
    ■ A questing creative spirit, she transmuted national ethnic forms into the
    contemporary mold of the interpretative dance.
    ■ She confronted the endless challenge of elevating Philippine dance to high
    creative art, lifting it to its peak of national artistic development.
    ■ Her works are indisputable classics of the genre. In these creations, she distilled
    the Filipino soul, dramatized the lives of her people in the challenging language
    of movement which infinitely enriched the national culture wielding a tremendous
    influence on interpretative Philippine dance development, blazing a trail for
    others to follow.p
    ■ Dr. Roces eulogized her as "the greatest of all our national artists" because "she
    dedicated her entire life to dance" and was a great choreographer because "she
    knew the Philippines thoroughly,“

    She was named National Artist in March 27,


    1976
    for her contribution to dance during Ferdinand
    Marcos

    Awards:
    ■P a t n u b a y n g
    ■R i z a l C
    ■R e p u b l i c
    ■ Presidential Award of Merit in 1970
    ■ Tandang Sora Award and the Columbia University Alumni Association Award in
    1975
    ■ National Artist for Dance on March 27, 1976
    LEONOR OROSA GOQUINGCO CONTRIBUTION

    •RETURN TO THE NATIVES


    She choreographed the first Philippines folkloric ballet, TREND: Return to the Native

    •FILIPINESCAS: PHILIPPINE LIFE, LEGEND AND LORE


    rd
    On June 3 une 1961, Rosendo embarked on an international tour as music director
    for the 38-member Filipinescas Trouoe. This now legendary tour was the creation of
    pioneer director-chorreographer, Leonor Orosa Goquingco. Entitled, “Filipinescas:
    Philippine life, legend, and lore in dance,” evolved from Orosa Goquingco’s interest in
    the folk dance, it is a symbolic and truly artistic 5-part stage presentation depicting
    Philippine life and its rich culture traditions.

    •She appeared in War Dance and Planting Rice. Other works she choreographed were
    "Circling the Globe", "Dance Panorama", "Current events", "Vinta!", "Morolandia",
    "Festival in Maguindanao", "Eons Ago: The Creation", "Filipinescas: Philippine Life,
    Legend, and Lore in Dance", "Miner's Song", "The Bird and the Planters", "Tribal", "Ang
    Antipos"(The Flagellant), "Salubong", "Pabasa" (Reading of the Pasyon) and "Easter
    Sunday Fiesta".

    •She was also a writer, and her articles were published in Dance Magazine (New York
    City), Enciclopedia Della Spettacolo (Rome), Grove's Dictionary of Music and
    Musicians (London), Arts of Asia (Hong Kong) and the Philippine Cultural Foundation,
    she wroteDances of the Emerald Isles and Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and
    Lore in Dance.
    Leonor Orosa-Goquingco also wrote a poem on the Japanese occupation, Lifted the
    Smoke of Battle, 

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