Summary: Stomping feet asks Mother Earth for permission to hunt. Learn to do hunting Filipino dance moves in this free dance lesson video from an award-winning Filipino dancer.
Potri Ranka Manis is an instructor at Lotus Music and Dance in New York City. Ms. Manis is the daughter of a sultan from the southern Philippines. She performs the classical and...read more
"Now, this is the beginning of this Madal Unok dance where the dancer brushes her feet into the ground, trying to ask permission from Mother Earth to stamp on it. And then she will continue dancing, using the Malong as her wings. And then again, and then go on, go around. Now she's trying to fly and now when she's going to be attacked by the hunter, she's going to use the movement called Kuda. Kuda is actually used usually by male in their dances. But in this particular dance, where the bird becomes a warrior, (continue dancing), becomes a warrior, the Kuda, (try to dance the Kuda), becomes a warrior fighting the hunter."