page_title: Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa / Works
caption_attribution_description: Members of the San Francisco based Parangal Dance Company performing the Pangalay dance of the Tausug people of Jolo as part of their Bangsamoro suite of dances at the 14th Annual Fil-Am Friendship Celebration at Serramonte Center in Daly City, California.
context_page_description: Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa is a Filipino dancer and academic known for her studies and promotion of the pangalay dance tradition of the southern Philippines and is a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
  She was nominated by former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago to be included in the list of National Living Treasures or Gawad Manlilika ng Bayan, the highest honor bestowed on individuals who have contributed immensely on indigenous culture and arts.
context_section_description: Fernando-Amilbangsa visited in Sulu in 1969 where she saw a performance pangalay at a wedding in Jolo island. Pangalay (lit. "gift offering" or "temple of dance" in Sanskrit), a form of pre-Islamic dance practiced by the Badjao, Jama Mapun, Tausūg and Samal people of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. She stayed in Jolo for four years.
  For three the next three decades since her visit in Sulu, she studied the Muslim culture of the Southern part of the Philippines, particularly in the Sulu archipelago. She worked as an artist, cultural researcher, educator, and advocate of the locale's indigenous arts.
  Among her most significant involvements, is her research, conservation, practice and promotion of pangalay which is traditionally performed in festive events such as weddings. It is characterized by its slow, intricate and hypnotic movements.
  In 1973 she moved to Bongao, Tawi-Tawi where she taught at the Mindanao State University – Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography. She established the Tambuli Cultural Troupe composed of students of the university where she taught. She taught pangalay to members of the troupe. In 1978, she established the Integrated Performing Arts Guild in Iligan. In 1983 she published a book with written dance instructions on pangalay. She moved back to Marikina in 1987 following the death of her husband.
  She established the AlunAlun Dance Circle (ADC) in Atipolo in 1999. Her own house served as a dance studio where pangalay and other traditional dances were taught and performed. The ADC has performed and organized workshops for at least a hundred times. The Tambuli Cultural Troup also have performed with the ADC.
  She was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in August 31, 2015.
caption: Two people performing pangalay, Fernando-Amilbangsa is known for her works on the form of dance.
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