Integrated Performing Arts Guild

The Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG), resident theatre company of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), has significantly contributed to a nationally robust culture-and-arts environment. As catalyst that has enhanced a consciousness for Philippine Arts, IPAG has spread out its influences that cover creative production, education, craft enhancement, the management of creative resources, and social advocacy. IPAG— the Philippines’ most-travelled repertory company— has engaged thousands around the country and the globe. In over four decades, it has used the performing arts to link peoples and cultures. Its celebrated repertoire has performed in most parts of the Philippines and in over a hundred cities, among these in Hawaii, the U.S. Mainland, Europe, and Asia enthralling large audiences and building goodwill for the Philippines. Its prodigious rave reviews, awards, and acclamation of a storied 40+ years as a major ensemble is non-paralleled. IPAG’s prominence as one of the more dynamic performance companies in the Philippines today is well acknowledged. It presents a Theatre characterized by a distinguishable form, of movement, color, poetry, rhythm, and a presence that captivates. Productions. IPAG has drawn acclamation for its innovative productions that integrate dance, music, literature, and the visual arts. Its productions are created from the Hispanic, Islamic, native and cosmopolitan artistic expressions of the southern Philippines where it is based. Its signature dance idiom is based on the pangalay, inspired from the dances of the Sulu Archipelago (introduced by its Founding Chairperson Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa) where the performer in motions of the hands and body like the sea seem to glide through space.