Kuratsa Dance is the most mainstream Waray customary dance in Eastern Visayas. C. Andin and B.E.S Villaruz 1994 composed that it is an indigenized adaptation of the la cucaracha the cockroach, a Mexican romance dance accepted to have been presented by Mexican officers and dealers when Mexico had managerial and exchange relations with the Philippines. A nearby investigation of the dance, notwithstanding, uncovers that it doesn't display any hint of the bothersome cockroach nor of the ardent Mexican in development, style or beat. Waray people notice nothing about an unfamiliar source. They state that the kuratsa portrays the coquettish developments of the chicken and the hen in romance.
BEFORE MUSIC recording was concocted, kuratsa music was played by a rondalla or a live string band. Conventional performers have a huge collection of kuratsa music – the menor or city hall leader (minor or significant scale) in a few varieties of the perky running songs. In Calbayog, Samar, older rondalla artists would likewise sing out the kuratsa while they play on their string instruments. Kuratsa music has now been promoted as chronicles in smaller circles. No get-together with a pasayaw or social moving is finished without the kuratsa. It is acted in different events: birthday events, immersions, weddings, political and games, among others. Customarily, kuratsa isn't performed on a phase, yet on level ground with the crowd encompassing the moving space, regardless of whether indoor or outside. The artists are called out by a parag-adu (one who matches off or then again coordinates artists). The pair (a man and a lady) approach each other in the paseo (from Spanish pasear or to walk). The dance starts with the straightforward (siki or foot) or tinikud (tikud or impact point), which are quick strolling ventures with the feet held near one another. The man and lady wave their arms sideways or somewhat overhead, arms together or in rotation. The man shows his ability in the sarakiki step. Sarakiki is the term for the chicken's vibrating footwork. The man of honor's moving ability is estimated by his dexterity – regardless of whether in mince steps, skipping, jumping or on the other hand bouncing or a blend of all these. Albeit lively and brisk, he coasts effortlessly across space. The lady is refreshing for the languorous and wavy or mabalud-balud bob. The lady's essential advance is actually done by duon – to press or to put weight on - as when she ventures with the chunk of her foot followed by the impact point of a similar foot. Exchanged with the other foot, the impact is a wavy ricochet of the entire body as though gliding on mists. The best artists are light, liquid and fine moving. As accomplices, they would be in simultaneous stream. They perform sentiment in the palanat (pursue) as the man pursues the one who, at beginning experience, sidesteps him. At the point when the man turns his back, the lady follows him. The common dance of Bohol is known as the Kuratsa Boholana. There is a lot of fun and cheering among the onlookers as the man may naughtily do the dagit (dip down) and wali (lift the skirt) with his accomplice. He may bow and move around as she keeps her balance, with hands gradually influencing noticeable all around or hovering towards him, until she consents and moves intimately with him. There could be a gapus-gapusay (to tie). The artists are attached with a scarf at discrete occasions. The one tied is delivered when the accomplice recovers the other through sabwag, or dropping cash on the scarf laid halfway on the ground or floor. They deviously charm one another: the man, through emotional abundance in the parayaw (flaunting); the lady, through coy artfulness in the lubay-lubay (hip influencing). During weddings in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, the kuratsa fills in as a bakayaw or wedding custom dance performed by the lady of the hour and husband to be. All through the district, the ninangs and ninongs (chief patrons) dance the kuratsa in all tastefulness. While moving, they would smoothly toss cash like confetti in the air or unpretentiously drop them. Family members and companions take action accordingly – dropping bills and coins onto the scarf on the ground or floor. The cash given is the occasion which the lucky man accumulates and offers to his lady of the hour. The asset is intended to help them in their new coexistence. The kuratsa as wedding dance mirrors the happy show of sentiment between the love birds and the help of their family and network to their association. The Waray insist love through the rich elegance of the kuratsa.