Pangalay

• Folk dance is a kind of traditional symbolic dance that may describe a culture's history and traditions.
• Southeast Asia is home to the Philippines.
• In the past, the majority of the country’s trade took place with its neighbors in the south and southwest, including Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
• These nations have had significant cultural and religious impact to the country, especially the southern Philippines.
• Pangalay is a social dance of the Tausug people of Sulu. It is done especially during weddings and other festive occasions. In Sabah, it is known as daling-daling or menggalai.
• The dance incorporates intricate shoulder, elbow, and wrist movements that mimic the movements of the Malay martial art known as kuntaw silat.
• The performers' signature long fingernails and traditional Joloana attire serve as identifiers.
• The metals that make up fingernails, including those composed of silver and gold, are often possessed by the wealthy.
• The term janggay refers to these lengthy fingernails. The dancers typically do not have any shoes on.
• This dance's music is played repeatedly, and it can be performed to a beat of counts one, two or one, two, and one measure.
• The directions, figure sequence, number of steps, kind of steps, hand movements, and body postures involved in native dance are all undefined.
• The dance often contains complex movement of the shoulders, elbows, and hands resembling the kuntaw silat acts.
• This allows dancers to express their creativity when designing movements for the dance.
• Both men and women can perform the traditional dance.
• A further variation of the dance performed by popular male dancers is called pangasik.
• Male and female dancers are shown in pangiluk.
• The pre-Islamic Buddhist concept of male and female ethereal angels served as the foundation for the dance's original conceptualization.
• It has casts that are typical of Southeast Asian folk dances, like the vidhyadhari in Sanskrit and biddadari in Bahasa Sug.