Philippine dances can be roughly divided into four categories: country dances, northern mountain dances, southern Medan Muslim dances and Spanish-style dances.
Country dance is a dance performed by indigenous people, which is not influenced by external factors. This kind of dance has strong imitation, single rhythm and simple movements, with only some emotional changes, or intense or relaxed. Dance is mainly based on the ground movements of feet. The contents of the dance include witchcraft dance, courtship dance, war dance, animal-like dance and so on. Accompaniment instruments include bamboo, wood, harp, castanets and various gongs, drums and drums.