The tinikling, as a traditional folk dance, represents graceful movements of tikling birds skipping through grass, trees, and bamboo traps set by farmers. In order to avoid the “trap” of cultural essentialism, I take a critical stance on the meaning of cultural identity; it is a phenomenon that is socially constructed, meditated, and in a constant state of flux. I reinterpret this cultural expression to make it meaningful to my context and to my understanding of what it means to be a Filipino-Canadian and thus, becomes a document of my process of identity construction.