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This dance is similar to Alcamfor and the Jotas of Manila, Cebu and Davao.

However, this video is historically beautiful.

Notice the beauty of the dress the Filipina is wearing? This was the popular and typical clothing worn by women of the elitist class or of the growing intelligentsia class during the late 19th century.

This is also the same style of clothing worn by the women of Spain during the same period.

O how beautiful! I am always drawn to the beauty of the Spanish Philippines. The styles, the music, the dances, the languages, the passions, the nationalistic undertones. Ah! Dios Mio!

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