A traditional Filipino style of dance is gaining popularity among Gen Z on social media. TikTok users of Filipino descent have taken to the social media platform to show their cultural pride by doing ...

Modern-day Bongao, the capital of Tawi-Tawi province, has trappings of contemporary living: regular air transport, Internet access, cellular phones, television and various modes of sea and land ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines in cooperation with the Embassy of the Philippines in Vientiane on Monday staged an exciting performance by the AlunAlun Dance ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amid the chimes of gongs, Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa teaches a group of women and children the mystical moves of a centuries-old dance form she has struggled to save from ...

I’m going to turn over most of my column this week to a colleague at the UP Institute of Creative Writing, the playwright and essayist Luna Sicat Cleto, whom I commissioned (badgered is the more ...

At 72, Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa walks with a cane like many elderly folk her age. But when she dances, the decades simply vanish. There was no music when the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay awardee and ...

A retelling of the Pangalay, rooted in the cultural landscape of the Sulu archipelago and the Tausug people, and expressed through its somatic fluidities. Through an ethnochoreological lens, the ...

MANILA, Philippines – Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa enters the room with the aid of a cane, careful in her steps as she settled on her seat. Amilbangsa is turning 72 this year, but there was a youthful ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amid the chimes of gongs, Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa teaches a group of women and children the mystical moves of a centuries-old dance form she has struggled to save from ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amid the chimes of gongs, Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa teaches a group of women and children the mystical moves of a centuries-old dance form she has struggled to save from ...