Imagining the beauty of pangalay movements with the use of a fan, I created my original choreography of igal kabkab in 1993—a far cry from the simple fan dance I witnessed in 1973 and 1976—by ...

“Pangalay is such a beautiful dance this is sooo gorgeous,” @solicole replied. “precolonial traditional filipino clothes are so pretty,” @scen3ry.luvr commented.

As Amilbangsa put it, Pangalay’s rich vocabulary of around 40 poses and gestures showed the sophistication of Sulu culture. “A dance is many things, like a microcosm of culture.

Pangalay Circle, a monthly series of Pangalay dance workshops and Many Styles, a Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) workshop series, is a project led by dancer and artist Kim Requesto and features a ...

This is the pangalay.” If that sounds a little like Bruce Lee quoting the “Tao Te Ching,” maybe it’s because pangalay draws from the same eternal wellspring, the mystic Source.

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 ...

Pangalay has the richest movement vocabulary of all ethnic dances in the Philippines and is the country’s living link to the ancient, classical dance traditions elsewhere in Asia.

For Filipina Ramon Maysaysay awardee Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa, the pangalay dance reflects the country's rich culture ...

Pangalay has the closest affinity to the Indian, Javanese, Thai, Burmese and Cambodian styles of classical dancing, and unfortunately is one dance form in Asia that is being pushed to oblivion. Amidst ...

“Pangalay is basically pure dancing,” Filipino academic and dancer Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa, who is recognized for her knowledge of the Pangalay dance, writes for PangalayDance.com.