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THIS FESTIVAL gathers dance artists who have been producing and creating
exciting, innovative work in contemporary dance. This is the fi rst independent
contemporary dance festival, an initiative of World Dance Alliance Philippines
Choreographers’ Network, with the generous support of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Contemporary dance has developed in “alternative” conditions, venues. Thus,
this festival attempts to capture the work in their original contexts, in the intimate
spaces for which they were created. Experience the works in the various spaces
of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. (Myra Beltran, Festival Director)
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ANATOMY PROJECTS: SUMMER BEGINS AND ENDS AS YOU WISH
multi-disciplinary collaboration by Green Papaya Art Projects
August 17 & 18, 5 PM, Bulwagang Amado Hernandez, Ticket P150
www.greenpapaya.org
Summer begins and ends as you wish examines the temporal and spatial politics of a live
performance en route the fi rst modern ballet Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Faun. Dream intermingles
with reality, intoxication wanes into sobering existence. An attempted deconstruction, this solo piece
tackles the promise and disillusion of seduction via little take home packages, you can fold, keep,
read or even throw away. |
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VOLUNTEERS FOR COMATOSE
Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune, curated by Jose Jay Cruz
August 17 & 18, 6.30 PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Ticket P200
The project positions the artist and the idea of performance – performance as illusion, the artist
and audience as willing co-consipirators. Is there not an uncomfortable dubiousness in this whole
bargain? A kind of self-inflicted coma? A refusal to wake up from the suspension of disbelief! |
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CARMEN DE LA CRUZ
Airdance, directed by Paul Morales
August 17 & 18, 8 PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo Stage, Ticket P300
www.airdance.com.ph
Carmen de la Cruz is a Pinoy-retelling of Carmen, that famous story of love and unbridled
passion, now set in a 1970’s Manila reeking in sex, drugs, religion and politics. This sensuous
deconstruction of a timeless crime of passion has an eclectic style and daring physicality. |
DANCING FROM THE ACADEME
UP Dance Company with guests: HC School of Dance, PHSA, Teatro Baile de
Cavite/Footworks-CSB, curated by Angel Lawenko and Herbert Alvarez under the
artistic direction of Basilio Villaruz
August 17 & 18, 9.30 PM, Main Theater Lobby, FREE
Imagining the shape of the future, this program is where dance education meets challenges in
choreographic discourse. Innovative and repertory works showcase ways to looking at history and
the body, and context in creation. |
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CROSSING BORDERS
Chameleon Dance Theater, curated by Raul Alcoseba
August 19 & 20, 5 PM, Bulwagang Amado Hernandez, Ticket P150
Dance has always lived in a homeland without borders and new work by emerging choreographers
attempt to cross all borders in form, in idea, in desire. Crossing Borders is where new meanings
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OVER 35 AND DANCING / ORDER FOR MASKS
Dance Forum, curated by Myra Beltran
August 19 & 20, 6.30 PM, Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Ticket P200
www.mbeltrandanceforum.com
Poetry and poetics – the poetics of being over 35 years old and dancing, and the poetry of Ms.
Virginia Moreno, stand back to back in this program. Moreno’s poem Order for Masks as dance – as
dancers over 35 articulate their aesthetics. |
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WI_FI BODY GALA
World Dance Alliance Choreographers’ Network
with guest performances and choreographies by Douglas Nierras’ Powerdance,
Kahayag Theater Company, James Laforteza and Steps Dance Studio,
and many more
August 19 & 20, 8 PM, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo Stage, Ticket P300
Working autonomously and independently but connected to the greater idea of contemporary
dance, this is the wi_fi body of independent dance artists, celebrating and converging in this gala. |
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EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHERS
works by young emerging choreographers curated by Nina Hayuma habulan
August 19 & 20, 9.30 PM, Main Lobby, FREE
It’s a party and a jam! Young, emergent voices in contemporary dance showcase their work and
jam with each other. Come dance with us! |
BE WITH US TO CHART A WAY TO GET TOGETHER – CELEBRATE DANCE WITH US!
WDA-Philippines is a chapter member of World Dance Alliance (WDA), a global organization which
serves as a primary and support group for dance, to promote the recognition, development and
mutual understanding of all forms of dance.
PRESIDENT Basilio Esteban Villaruz, VICE PRESIDENT Corazon Inigo,
SECRETARY-TREASURE Shirley Halili-Cruz, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Clarissa Mijares, CHAIR
OF CREATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK Myra C. Beltran.
For inquiries please call 3733567 or email wdachoreographers_phil@yahoo.com |
FOR TICKET INQUIRIES PLEASE CALL
CCP Marketing Department 8321125 local 1801 to 1808 or 8323681
CCP Box Office 8323704 www.culturalcenter.gov.ph
Tickets available at all Ticketworld outlets in National Bookstore branches and Tower Records 8919999 |
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