The AlunAlun Dance Circle and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts present Pangalay ng Bayan: Sayaw at Laro ng Lahi at the ValerianoE.FugosoElementary School Quadrangle, Manila Boys’ Town Complex, Parang, Marikina City on 15 December 2014 , 10 a.m. The 30-minute recital featuring new dances will recreate selected Philippine Games in pangalay dance style, like habulan, taguan, bahay-bahayan, and others. The dances will showcase […]
Archives for 2014
Auspicious August 2014: ADC at Museo Pambata, SM The Block, and Cultural Center of the Philippines Cinemalaya Film Festival
August 2014 is a lucky and busy month. On 4 August 2014, the 10th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival exhibited under its Pinoy Pride Philippine Documentaries the film Ang Pagbabalik sa Tawi-Tawi (Return to Tawi-Tawi), Monday, 12:45 pm at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Little Theater. The guests of honor who graced the affair were Dr Bienvenido […]
Quezon City , Metro Manila – 08/02/14 – The Best of Pangalay at Eid\’l Fitr Festival
Manila – 08/02/14 – AlunAlun and Eidl Fitr Dance Performance interaction
Highlights of the 2014 First Quarter Salvo:
On 8 March 2014, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the ADC in cooperation with DocuCinema Media Collective and the Angel C.Palanca Peace Program Foundation (FEU) exhibited to over 500 students and academicians the full-length documentary, “Ang Pagbabalik sa Tawi-Tawi” (Return to Tawi-Tawi). It is about how Ligaya Amilbangsa, since 1969, researched and documented […]
New Full-length Documentary on Pangalay: “Ang Pagbabalik sa Tawi-Tawi” (Return to Tawi-Tawi)
“Ang Pagbabalik sa Tawitawi” documents Ligaya Amilbangsa’s return to the Sulu Archipelago after more than 30 years, to re-connect and to share with the people whose arts and culture she helped to preserve. The film centers on how Amilbangsa researched and documented pangalay, also known as igal and paunjalay in the Sulu Archipelgao. The art […]
Fitting Year-ender: Two Performances to Appease Mother Earth
PANGALAY DURING AWARDS FOR HEROES OF THE ENVIRONMENT Environmental workers know the importance of indigenous dances in the struggle to save the planet. Therefore, on 5 December 2013, the Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan spearheaded by the Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) invited the “beloved Pangalay Dancers to perform at the awards ceremonies” of the Ikatlong […]