Oct. 25, 7:00pm
Oct. 26, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Oct. 27, 7:00pm
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater)
Cultural Center of the Philippines
CCP Complex, Roxas Boulevard, 1300 Pasay City, Philippines
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NeoFilipino: Ar[res]t highlights the power of dance to seize focus, to arrest a crowd in a frenzy, and to pierce through the noise to arrive at the truth that lays inside.
To resist. To resolve. To Restore.
Through collaboration with other art forms, the four pieces in this year’s NeoFilipino aims to strike a balance between opposing forces, to return to the personal and intimate, and to lift the veil from that which is hidden.
Director: Denisa Reyes
Co-Director: Myra Beltran
Choreographers:
Ava Villanueva-Ong
Biag Gaongen
Georgette Sanchez-Vargas
JM Cabling
Collaborators:
Krina Cayabyab
Gianne Sanchez-Sanson
Manny Montelibano
Tuxqs Rutaquio
#NeoFilArrest2019
Ticket Price: Php500
Discounts: 50% for Students, and 20% for Senior Citizens, PWD, Government and Military Personnel
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Choreographers
On choreographing ‘Sibol’ in collaboration with composer Krina Cayabyab: “It is about my worries as a parent and my questions about the future. As a parent, you worry. Will it be hopeful or bleak?”
AVA VILLANUEVA-ONG is a performing artist, teacher and choreographer. A former Artistic Director of Airdance Co., she has been a notable teacher of contemporary dance and ballet at the UP College of Music, CCP Dance School, UPLB, and her own Ava’s School of Dance. Her career as a dancer has birthed collaborations with artists from Japan, the Philippines, and Poland. She was the first grand-prize winner of the New Choreographer’s Platform of the Wifi Body Festival.
On choreographing Tatak: Ta-tô in collaboration with visual artist Manny Montelibano: “The dancing, chanting and garb are only one part of a bigger picture. Underneath all of that are real lives and rights of humans that have to be recognized and respected…What is Igorot culture to me after years of being physically away from Sagada?”
BIAG GAONGEN is a performer, teacher and choreographer who has danced notably with Ballet Philippines, Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, and Tanz Oper Graz in Austria. He recently completed his MFA in Dance from the Ohio State University. His latest choreography was a tribute to Agnes Locsin.
On choreographing Arrhythmia in collaboration with writer Gianne Sanchez: “The beating of the heart is controlled by electrical impulses…It vacillates between fast and slow, the quick shifts of speed is always evident in my own life as a dancer.”
GEORGETTE SANCHEZ is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who has forged a noteworthy career as a dancer in the Philippines with Ballet Philippines, and in Europe with abcdancecompany, Tanztheater Darmstadt, and Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz. Returning to the Philippines, she danced for Agnes Locsnin’s solo and duet concerts.
On choreographing ‘Ang Lihim ni Lea’ in collaboration with Tuxqs Rutaquio for theater: “I am exploring different approaches to contact and the dynamics of power shifts in partnering work because of the nature of the story. It needs to be handled with so much care.”
JM CABLING is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer who has choreographed for UP Dance Company and varous theater groups. An awarded choreographer, he was given the 2018 Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koryograpiya Award, the Trudl Dubsky Zipper award, the distinction of being a finalist at the 2019 Yokohama Dance Collection Competition I. His choreographies have also won various Sayaw Pinoy and Dancelebration competitions.
Collaborators
Hear KRINA CAYABYAB’S new and commissioned work for AVA VILLANUEVA’s ‘April After’.
KRINA CAYABYAB is a composer, arranger, educator and performer. She has composed and arranged for numerous Dulaang UP plays and musicals. She is currently Assistant Professor at the UP College of Music.
See GIANNE SANCHEZ-SANSON’s new work for GEORGETTE SANCHEZ-VARGAS.
GIANNE SANCHEZ-SANSON is a writer, dancer, and preschool teacher. With her sister, she co-directs the productions and recitals of the Garcia-Sanchez School of Dance. It was her reading of Sanchez-Vargas’ percussive movement studies and writing of text that transformed the movements into ‘Arrhythmia.’
See MANNY MONTELIBANO’s new and commissioned work for BIAG GAONGEN’s ‘Tatak: Ta-tô’.
MANNY MONTELIBANO is an awarded video artis. His works have been exhibeted at the National Museum of the Filipino, Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Metropolitan Museum.
See TUXQS RUTAQUIO’s new and commissioned work for JM CABLING’S choreography of Augie Rivera’s ‘Ang Lihim ni Lea’.
TUXQS RUTAQUIO is an award winning actor, production designer, and director. He is the former
Festival Director of CCP’s Virgin Labfest, and is Chairperson of the Production Design Program of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.
