MANAnG
BIDAY
A
Folk dance
By: kyle Michael Rocero
HISTORY
-Manang Biday is a popular folk song and
also a folk dance in the Ilocos region.
-Biday is the name of a girl with whom a
young man is very much in love.
COSTUME
Dancers are dressed in
typical Ilocano peasant
costume.
MUSIC
-Composed of one part of eight measures.
-Play the music twice for every figure of the dance.
DANCE STEPS
PART 1 PART 1 PART 1 PART 1 PART 1
Partners face each other and do the following step. Boy has hands on hips,
Girl holds skirt :
a) Place right heel forward (2 counts). Bring right ft back to place ( l count
) Place left heel forward (2 counts). Bring left foot back to place for ( l
count) 2 meas.
b) Starting with right foot , take two waltz steps forward to meet at
center and two waltz steps backward to proper places. Arms in lateral
position, moving sideward right and left alternately . 4 meas.
c) Three step turn right in place, hands as in (a) 2 meas.
d) Repeat all from (a-c) , 8 meas.
PART 2
PART 2
PART 2
PART 2
PART 2
PART 2
PART 2
Partners face front:
a) Starting with right foot , take two waltz steps forward.
Kumitang Right hand, left hand on waist on first measure
and reverse position of hands on second measure 2.
b) Do two touch steps n front , (Right, Left ) with hands as in
figure Part l-(a) . The touch step is : Place Right toe forward
(2 counts). Bring foot to place, count 1 Place Left toe
forward (2 counts). Bring foot to place, count 1. 2 meas.
c) Repeat Part 2-(a) moving backwards t o place 2 meas.
d) Three step tur n right in place. Hands as in Figure l-(a). 2
meas.
e) Repeat a l of Part 2 from (a-d) 8 meas.
SOURCES
Cadiz, Ernesto Ma (1988). Ilocos Norte,
Gem of the Northern Plains
The Diliman Review. College of Arts
and Sciences,
University of the Philippines. 1972
Philippine Folk Dances Volume I-5
by Francisca Reyes Aquino
YouTube
Filipino Native Paintings