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Sua Ku Sua

Sua Ku Sua is a courtship dance from the Sulu Archipelago between Borneo and Mindanao that originated in Jolo, Sulu. The dance likens a woman's beauty and grace to the pomelo tree, which has fragrant flowers, slender branches, and beautiful fruit. It is performed by one or more dancers, usually male and female, who decorate themselves with white face powder, fans, and intensified facial hair to honor the pomelo tree and symbolize the bond between the Tausug people and the fruit.

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Sua Ku Sua

Sua Ku Sua is a courtship dance from the Sulu Archipelago between Borneo and Mindanao that originated in Jolo, Sulu. The dance likens a woman's beauty and grace to the pomelo tree, which has fragrant flowers, slender branches, and beautiful fruit. It is performed by one or more dancers, usually male and female, who decorate themselves with white face powder, fans, and intensified facial hair to honor the pomelo tree and symbolize the bond between the Tausug people and the fruit.

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What is Sua Ku

Sua?
dance that likens the suas gentel
leaves,attractive fruits it’s fragrance and
slender body to that of lady.

What is the place of origin of Sua Ku Sua?

Answer: it is located in the sulu


archipelago,between Borneo
mindanao.the dependence of the tausug
of the pomelo tree and it’s fruits have
created a bond between the two which
prompted the tausug of Jolo,sulu to make
a dance honoring the latter.
What is the history of Sua Ku Sua?
Answer: it means my pomelo tree it originated in Jolo,sulu
where most of the people living there are farmers or sea
farmers.
They are rich of the coconut treesand pomelo trees
which grately influenced the dance Sua Ku Sua.
The pomelo tree was described of having fragrant
flowers,slender,branches,and bears a beautiful
he Sua Ku Sua was made to be a court ship dance where it is performed by 2 people or more mostly by a male and female.

They prepare themselves by putting on:


1.White rice powder on their faces
2.Uses fan as a interactive tool for the dance
3.A much more intensified eyebrows and side burns.
The costume of the dancers of Sua Ku Sua:

Barawasi and sawal.


THAT’S
ALL!

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