Summary: To tell a story in Filipino dance, learn to use chants while dancing 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
"Actually the dances that you have seen for Toboli, are dances from the sacred epic called, Lum Luni, or the story of Tood Boloh. This is an epic of the Toboli people that holds their lives since. And at present we are trying to preserve this culture. An example of a chant from Lum Luni is-(singing chant) I learn this chant from Indosubo when I was in the Toboli area for six years."