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 ...

Recognizing the remarkable contributions of distinguished personalities, businesses, and organizations that continue to nurture Philippine heritage and culture, this year’s honors celebrated a new ...

After watching a film, moviegoers sometimes leave the cinema feeling nothing, thinking instead about how to get home amid late-night traffic or where to have dinner in a crowded mall. But such cannot ...

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 ...

Together, these workshops create opportunities for deep engagement with vital themes such as the connections to land and nature, exploring how physical, cultural, and emotional landscapes shape ...

A dance must be repeated, or else it vanishes,” says Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa. “When the one performing the dance dies, the dance dies with her.” For more than 50 years, Amilbangsa has been ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

JOLO, Sulu (MindaNews/12 August) — Endemic is the art of movement in Sulu archipelago that the various ethnicities in the region, having each their own localized rendition of the dance, laid claim ...

DURING her visit to Sulu, Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco announced plans for the construction of a Tourist Rest Area (TRA), marking the first of its kind in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of ...

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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 ...