Summary: Moving feet slowly and smoothly, learn to replicate water in Filipino dancing with 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
"So you will see the difference between the earlier, the dances earlier, the Tiboli, it's foot movement are heavy and earth hugging. And the Maranaw movement, this Kakini-kini which is light and very regal. And the foot movement of the Tausug people. Actually this simulates the boat. Now there are people who live in the boat and they transfer from one boat to another and that is the feet movement, I mean you know, that demonstrate. And also the water shredding, like you're in the water floating."