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kotiprong
A ceremonial dance performed by young girls on October 9, San Dyonisio Day.
Until the mid-1990s, young girls dressed in brightly colored long skirts, lined up in two rows, and swayed to the strum of a 3-stringed mandolin made from a wooden bowl and rope strings. Facing east, they waved unopened umbrellas to the beat of (1,2,3,4... 1,2,3... 1,2,3,4... 1,2,3). Then they called out I war mi nganaimma...Dagiti tatao indingam ida 'Hear the people cry to you....'; repeated four times for each direction to encourage San Dyonisio not to desert helping them. It is believed by some that hunger, a poor rice harvest, or sickness will strike the community unless the dance is performed.
Young girls (mag-) dance the kotiprong on October 9.
Magkotiprong sayaw babalāsang an pista.
The young girls dance when it is the fiesta.
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