March 8 – 10, 2024
The Theatre at Solaire
1 Asean Avenue, Entertainment City, 1701 Parañaque, Metro Manila
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Ballet Philippines’ “Limang Daan” is a serial production rooted in Filipino culture, identity, and history. For its 2024 edition, award winning filmmaker and writer Moira Lang illuminates the struggles of Filipino women in a narrative travels through the country’s 500-year history. Lang’s cross-generational heroines mirror one another in their journeys through pain, struggle and strife. Set both in the past and present, these stories woven through dance, serve as a vignette to the beauty, wisdom, and fortitude of the Filipino women.
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PRESENT DAY. Ana, a Filipina nurse in New York, contends not only with the punishing workload as a health provider. She must also learn to face the unwanted advances of a superior.
450 YEARS AGO IN THE VISAYAS. Amihan is a non-binary babaylan (Filipino shaman) who must face the consequences of refusing the salvation promised by “men of God.”
1969, CHICO RIVER, CORDILLERAS. Three Cordilleran women—Petra, Edena, and Leticia—defy guns, goons, and gold to protect the motherland from despots deigning to dictate their future.
A CONVENT IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. Maria Clara leaps from the pages of Jose Rizal’s Noli “Me Tangere” to embody a repressed nun who finally comes to her senses—and sensuousness. A duel with the convent’s Mother Superior looms.
1904, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA. Gawani, an Igorot woman recruited to be part of the “human zoo” of the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, finds strength in the women who have preceded her and those that are still to follow.
This time bending-narrative weaves together the pains, struggles, and strife of Filipina women both from our past and present. Choreographed by Ballet Philippines’ Artistic Director Mikhail Martynyuk with music by Erwin Romulo, LIMANG DAAN brings poignant vignettes of a woman’s life through dance. Renowned designer, JC Buendia, lends his expertise in creating traditional Philippine garments to the production.
