Summary: Filipino dance costumes are important to tell stories while dancing. Learn to use a Filipino dance costume 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
"This dance is called actually Kapamalong-malong. It's all about this Malong, this is a tubular cloth and how an expression can be expressed, an expression can be said through this. Like, picking up fruit and carrying it home. This is just some of the part of the story, how we can tell a story out of this piece of tubular cloth. Like you're carrying a jug of water."