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Over 50 full-feature productions performed in over a hundred cities worldwide stamp IPAG’s storied reputation as a major performing company. IPAG has enthralled thousands in North America, the Hawaiian Islands, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, Portugal, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea (for the 2002 World Cup), Japan, Vietnam, China, Thailand, India, Monaco (presenting a command performance for Prince Albert), and Indonesia (for the ASEAN Panji Festival). Major festivals in India and Thailand have main featured its versions of the Ramayana including the 2018 India-ASEAN SUMMIT and the holiest Dipotsava in SriRama’s birthplace where the performances received wide acclaim.
Founded in 1978 by STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ (Artistic Director) and LIGAYA FERNANDO-AMILBANGSA (Founding Chairperson), IPAG is widely acknowledged for its contributions to Philippine Performing Arts and Letters. IPAG has evolved its signature performance form from the pangalay, indigenous to the Sulu Archipelago in the Southern Philippines. Perhaps the Philippines’ closest claim to classical dance, the performer, like the sea, seems to glide through space, its pedagogy established by the guru Amilbangsa herself. IPAG, well-featured in media and in numerous anthologies, continues to represent the country in international festivals. IPAG’s engagements are perhaps the most extensive for any repertory company in the Philippines. The Guild is a center for training, Performance Studies, and the precursor of the pioneering Culture and Arts Studies Program in the MSU-IIT
IPAG productions integrate the dance, music, literary, and art expressions of the Southern Philippines where it is based. Its distinct Theater is characterized by local color, poetry, rhythm, and an engrossing presence with that universal appeal that has captivated the world. Amilbangsa was conferred the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award (the Asian Nobel). Similarly, the prestigious Writers Union of the Philippines (Ugnayan ng mga Manunulat sa
Pilipinas, or UMPIL) awarded the IPAG with the Gawad Pedro Bucaneg. Fernandez was awarded the Lifetime UMPIL Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas in 2014. The CCP awarded both IPAG and Fernandez with the Gador in 2020 preceding the Gawad CCP para sa Sining, the highest distinction for a performing company.
INSPIRED, INSPIRING 46th SEASON
July 2023-May 2024
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What the most respected Philippine Artists say about the IPAG:
“… fascinating…not for an instant did audience attention falter….” LEONOR OROSA-GOQUINGCO, National Artist for Dance
“Kagiliw-giliw ang mga eksena.” BIENVENIDO LUMBERA, National Artist for Literature
“…awesome… infectious charm!” ANTONIO MABESA, National Artist for Theater
CASTING CALLS TO BE LATER ANNOUNCED
Contact. tel: (+6363) 2232494
mobile: 0917-3063607 0917-7161318
email: ipagarts@yahoo.com ipagarts
STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
Artistic Director
