Saturday, November 28
at 8:00pm
Pineapple Lab
6071, R. Palma Street, Barangay Poblacion, 1210 Makati, Philippines
Pineaaple Lab would like to invite you to MDM B. NIYAAN
a theatre performance by Russ Ligtas on November 28, 2015, 8:00 pm. Tickets are Php 300.
MDM B. NIYAAN is a performative rite set in the program of an exercise-cum-exorcism to release the pain and anger from a frustrated love affair. It features Mdm B. Niyaan, one of the artist’s alter egos who is also his archetype of the demented abandoned lover. Her name is a play on the Cebuano word Biniyaan for abandoned. Still in the skirt of her wedding gown, Mdm B. Niyaan is caught in a state of perpetual yearning, waiting, and emotional pain. The exercise allows her to manifest such a state, saving the artist alter ego the time, energy, and social disgrace to do so in the real world. The steps within exercise depict her creation as an alter ego to the artist: revealing history, the nuances of her present sentiments, and clues to her future. The narrative employs Butoh, poetry, music, video, and audience participation.
About Russ
Russ Ligtas is an artist living in Manila. He creates art in various media mostly in the collective form of performance. He uses movement, sound, video, and objects to express and discuss themes of the self across diverse personalities, issues, and basic human emotions and behavior.
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