"If you leave home, you need to remember home. You need to bring that consciousness of home with you."
- MS POTRI RANKA MANIS, Nurse Manager & Dance Academy Director in New York
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Our guest is the daughter of a sultan from Southern Philippines. She performs the classical and tribal dances of Mindanao and other Filipino dances solo and with Kinding Sindaw, the dance company she founded and directs. She has performed throughout the Philippines, the Middle East, Hong Kong and the U.S, and is also an award-winning poet and playwright. She has performed at NYU, Columbia and Lincoln Center's Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival, and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., among others.
Friends, help me welcome MS POTRI RANKA MANIS.
Take a sneak peak at the amazing diversity that is Mindanaoan culture in this episode that features a OFW frontliner in The Big Apple, whose work goes beyond health sciences, and extends to preserving and prospering oral and performative tradition from Southern Philippines to the world. Cultural consciousness, a better appreciation for Filipino history, and a good dose of healthy conversation. 
This is TODAY WITH TATAY ECHO, Season 3.

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