Like most other primitive cultures, the first crop of the Philippines made that the activities of daily living with a consciousness of their world is governed by forces beyond their useful life central, but if properly “approached” could be brought to inspire art on behalf of man. In all its activities, invited the Filipino forces to prolong his life. The dance was for him a form of worship, the invitation with the unseen powers in which he lived. Her dance was full of images of the immediate world: the wind and rain, the passing seasons, the movements of birds and animals, fertility rites, seduction, birth, death, hunting , harvest, pray for the success and the victory celebration.
Gestures used in the stories have been developed to such an extent that the sense of history has become a full-scale, man has taken a step dance of pushing the sphere of ritual Filipino in the world of art. By the time explorers arrived estimated, dance as a social function had already started to bloom in the Philippines.