Palo-palo

From Batanes, Ivatan

The Palo-palo is a mock battle dance of Batanes. Two camps strike each other's sticks to act out a fight. One paper suggests the Spanish-era komedya as a source, but this is not settled.

Authors suggest, as a preliminary idea, that it came from the Spanish-era komedya. Not settled.

Sources: Tiatco, Landicho, Javier, Asian Theatre Journal 35(1), 2018 (UP Diliman page)