Prof. Januario M. Cuchapin
Culture and Arts Expert
Although hailing from Moncada, Tarlac, former PSU-Bayambang Professor Januario M. Cuchapin has long been Bayambang town's cultural warrior.
For several long years, he's been the energetic driving force behind Bayambang's Municipal Council for Culture and the Arts, the first of his kind in Bayambang.
Aside from being a teacher at the KD-Elementary Laboratory School, its Principal, and eventually a Department Head at the College of Education, he was the man behind such noteworthy projects as Bayambang Ballroom Dance Instructors, “Binasuan Festival,” "Malangsi Fish-tival," and the first-ever Fifth Capital Celebration Program, and the lead adviser for the Bayambang Culture-Mapping Book.
He was the Overall Director of a local adaptation of the musical, “Beauty and the Beast”; folk dance researcher, particularly of dances in Bayambang, such as the Binasuan, Siwi-Siwi, and the Bayambang version of Sayaw ed Tapew na Bangko and choreographer of Lanceros na Bayambang, the town’s official social dance.
One of his most notable outputs is a monograph of notated Pangasinan folk songs and dances as a result of an NCCA-funded traveling Pangasinan song-and-dance extravaganza project. The publication has been donated by him and preserved at the Bayambang Museum of Innovation, the town's municipal museum (located at the public plaza) where he served as curator of the Culture Gallery.
A recognized authority on culture and arts, he is a sought-after speaker, trainer, adjudicator, organizer, and consultant in various cultural activities at the regional, provincial, and local levels.
Prof. Cuchapin also wrote two other publications in his field of expertise.
Lastly, he founded the Matalunggaring Dance Troupe in 1986, which has since been promoting the folk dances and songs of Pangasinan and the country for the past 37 years.
Cuchapin is the husband of PSU Lab High School math wizard, Prof. Erlinda Cuchapin, and the father of two boys.
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