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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Little known Philippine dance and one woman's efforts to bring it to the world's attention There were two weddings that charted the path of Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa’s life. Interestingly enough, ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines - Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa has always loved the arts. When she married a schoolmate and moved to his home in Sulu, it was not surprising that she immersed herself in the rich ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...