This panel is a preliminary presentation of the project Philippine Performance Archive: Cultural Performances. The first presentation is a general overview of the project and its intended content with a demonstration of how it is envisioned to function as a digital archive, cultural memory, and pedagogical tool. Here, the concept of cultural performance is concretized within the context of performance studies and the context of Philippine society and culture. The second presentation is a discussion of the successes and problems of engaging with archiving via technology (digital humanities) vis-à-vis ethnographic methodology. The third and final presentation provides an exposition regarding the significance of understanding local performance vocabularies and how these local vocabularies are translated into the digital archive vis-à-vis the totality of the entire Philippine Performance Archive: Cultural Performances.