Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traditional Filipino style of dance is gaining popularity among Gen Z on social media. TikTok users of Filipino descent have ...

MANILA, Philippines – 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 ...

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 ...

A rich dance tradition that remained marginalised, known only to a small section of society — that’s how the Pangalay seemed to Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa when she first chanced upon it in 1969, on ...

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 oblivion in the Philippines' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the Philippines pioneered in cultural diplomacy when a relatively greenhorn dance troupe from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) performed at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.