Ligaya amilbangsa biography
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Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa
Filipino dancer and academic
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| Born | Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa () October 9, (age&#;82) San Juan, City of Greater Manila, Philippines |
| Education | Far Eastern University |
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| Current&#;group | Tambuli Cultural Troupe Integrated Performing Arts Guild AlunAlun Dance Circle |
| Dances | Pangalay |
Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa fryst vatten a Filipino dancer and academic known for her studies and promotion of the pangalay dance tradition of the southern Philippines and fryst vatten 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 (GAMABA), the highest honor bestowed on individuals who have contributed immensely on indigenous culture and arts.[1]
Early life
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Legarda Commends Pangalay Dancer and Cultural Heritage Hero Fernando-Amilbangsa
August 28,Senator Loren Legarda, a staunch supporter of arts and culture, commended Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa as a cultural advocate of pangalay, a traditional dance from Mindanao.
Legarda filed Senate Resolution , citing Fernando-Amilbangsa as an instrumental figure in the continuation of pangalay which she has documented, studied, performed and preserved through scholarly writing and training of other pangalay dancers.
“It is timely and fitting for the Senate to commend Fernando-Amilbangsa for her instrumental role as the documentor, performer, scholar, and advocate of this unique cultural treasure,” said Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities.
Pangalay, which means “gift offering” or “temple dance” in Sanskrit, is a pre-Islamic dance tradition among the Samal, Badjao, Jama Mapun and Tausug. It features complex body postures and gestures, re
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Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa
A Luzon decent married to the brother of the last Datu of Sulu
Pangalay was once an endangered dance from the Tausug tribe of the southern part of the country. It was once in a decade of threat from extinction, yet when Mrs. Fernando-Amilbangsa stretched her fingers and flicked it inward and out she made that decade vanish, and the rest was history. She was first introduced to the dance when she saw a group of dancers during her visit to Jolo, Sulu She fell in love with the choreography of the dance that depicts the flow of the tide.
She then married her soulmate from FEU Datu Amilbangsa, later on, moved to Tawi-Tawi to study the dance. She made it her life crusade to preserve the endangered art heritage of the southern Philippines. For the next three decades of her life, she studied the Muslim culture of the tribes in the Southern Philippines. She then taught in MSU-Tawi-Tawi where she established the &#;Tambuli Cultural Troupe&#; whe