| Start: | Sep 29, '06 9:30p |
| Location: | 70s Bistro, Anonas Street, Project 3, Quezon City |
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Pinikpikan
what about "no title"?
it's been a while since i haven't written anything, either online or on paper. i've been a wreck since my mother died, and writing or basically gathering my thoughts together has been terrifying lately. because it meant that i had to sit down and think about stuff, and processing them and all that. instead of just going out and doing something to forget about it or to deal with "the real world". i had to be practical and look for work and think about things like rent, bills, etc. except that every so often, something jerks me back to the fact that my mother's dead, my family will never get back together no matter how hard i try or wish for it to happen, my boyfriend will never be a boyfriend much less my husband, motherhood will not come to me just because i want it to, it will be harder for me to go back to the one company i've wanted to be in than i thought.
stuff like that.
and just when you think you deserve a break, just when you finally decide to kick back and have fun, a prude of a friend - or maybe he's just fucking tight-assed - rains on your parade. not realizing that by telling me not to go out too much, drink too much, flirt too much, he does more harm than good. and oh yes, he meant well and all that, but isn't it funny when you've been hankering for attention and you get the unwanted kind? when you've been craving for a shoulder to cry on and you get a pamphlet to go with that? see the light...let the lord touch you once again...blahblahblah... hahahahaha. i guess god has a sense of humor after all.
still, i have to be thankful. i actually have friends who put up with my shit no matter how big an asshole i get. people love me. it might not be the brand of loving that i'd like to receive, but it is love, nevertheless. the kind i need the most. life still manages to give me these nice surprises.
it gives you hope. and each time, i am reminded that we mustn't be too preoccupied about the future because although important, it is not as important as the present. saving up for a rainy day happens now. giving your all on stage happens now. telling a friend how much you appreciate him happens now. kissing a fool happens now. loving someone happens now.
and it's okay, it's okay to let go, have fun once in a while, even fuck up once in a while. as long as you let it happen. as long as you don't dwell on it afterwards because the past is something that is always out of our hands anyway. at least you can look back on it and laugh, tell your grandchildren that you rocked when you were their age.
amazing, really, when you think about it. some things just aren't as important as we initially thought they were. but one thing i do pray for, for myself and for everyone - may we have the wisdom to know what really matters, and the courage to love, always love.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Chong Wishing’s BAKERETTA (Ghost Operetta)
| Start: | Nov 10, '06 8:00p |
| End: | Nov 26, '06 |
| Location: | Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Cultural Center of the Philippines |
friendship, Tanghalang Pilipino collaborates with the
Japan Foundation, Sinag Arts Foundation, the Cultural
Center of the Philippines, with support from the
National Commission for Culture and the Arts, for the
horror-comedy play BAKERETTA (GHOST OPERETTA).
BAKERETTA is a thriller, somewhat in the tradition of
Japanese horror films like Ring and The Grudge, but
with a quirky, musical twist! An amateur theater
company is in the final weeks of rehearsals for a
modern ghost (bake) story – “The Ghost in the Toilet”,
and the mounting pressures of opening night get mixed
up with their personal dramas, comedies and horrors.
At the same time, as they are thrown into a strange
tumult of emotions, the eerie happenings on the set,
make them wonder what indeed exists beyond the
unopened toilet door.
Leading the cast are premier actors Ronnie Lazaro and
Nonie Buencamino alternating as the cancer-stricken
director, Ago. 2005 Aliw Best Stage Actress Irma
Adlawan-Marasigan plays Thea, the stage manager and
Ago’s present girlfriend. The ex-girlfriend and
reluctant substitute director, Bitchay, is played by
distinguished actress Mailes Kanapi. Joining this
remarkable cast are Dante Balois (Manong Kokiks), Bong
Cabrera (Raul), Wenah nagales (Claudette), Paolo
O’Hara (Esting), Randy Villarama (Jas), Nicco Manalo,
Nar Cabico and Leo Ponseca.
This spine-tingling and rib-tickling play is directed
by the playwright himself, multi-awarded screenwriter
and one of Japan’s most exciting theater directors,
Chong Wishing. Playwright Liza Magtoto adapts the
script into Filipino, with Leo Abaya as production
designer, Shoko Matsumoto as lighting designer, music
by Jed Balsamo, Aji Manalo as sound designer, Arlo De
Guzman as assistant director and Barbara Tan-Tiongco
as technical director.
CCP Tanghalang Huseng Batute from
November 10 to 26, 2006. Matinee shows are at 3:00 PM
(Saturdays & Sundays) and evening shows are at 8:00 PM
(Fridays & Saturdays).
For inquiries and ticket reservations, please call the
TP office at 832-3661, 832-1125 locals 1620/1621or
0920-9535381.
Tanghalang Pilipino
Resident Theater Company of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
Office Telefax: 832-3661
CCP Trunkline: 832-1125 local 1620 & 1621
(Tuesdays to Fridays)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
PINIKPIKAN Official Website
http://www.pinikpikan.com
From being a "jamming" group of visual and performance artists way back in 1989, Pinikpikan has now evolved into a formal music band that pioneers the world music scene in the Philippines. It is a multi-awarded band that fuses indigenous and modern music styles to create sounds and words that transcend categorization.
Pinikpikan has played in major venues and events all over the archipelago, and has also played outside the country, Singapore and Cambodia recently, to represent the best of world class Filipino world music.
The live performances are a treat to all the senses, awakening the good and wild spirits within you, and your surroundings. Intense, powerful, soulful, sensual.
Free the mind, feel the vibes, groove with the spirits. We invite you to experience Pinikpikan.
From being a "jamming" group of visual and performance artists way back in 1989, Pinikpikan has now evolved into a formal music band that pioneers the world music scene in the Philippines. It is a multi-awarded band that fuses indigenous and modern music styles to create sounds and words that transcend categorization.
Pinikpikan has played in major venues and events all over the archipelago, and has also played outside the country, Singapore and Cambodia recently, to represent the best of world class Filipino world music.
The live performances are a treat to all the senses, awakening the good and wild spirits within you, and your surroundings. Intense, powerful, soulful, sensual.
Free the mind, feel the vibes, groove with the spirits. We invite you to experience Pinikpikan.
:: KADANGYAN Official Website ::
http://www.kadangyan.com.ph
KADANGYAN is an Ifugao term which means "Rich in Culture".
The group started from a group of visual and performing artists and decided to concentrate into music as an ethnic band way back October of 2000.
Now KADANGYAN specializes in tribal and ethno - cultural music and performances and as an ethnic band. The group is also capable of performing acoustic native rituals on stage, theatres and some private gatherings and occasions.
When the group front acted for the band “Slapshock” during their album launch in Dipolog, the audience was shocked when they saw the band step out on stage wearing tribal inspired outfits such as g-string, malong and sarong.
The audience immediately began to heckle and jeer the band, but once they started performing, the audience was stunned and some even began to start dancing. By the end of their set, the audience was screaming “I love you Kadangyan!” This is the kind of challenge that Kandangyan face whenever they perform their tribal inspired tunes.
People who encounter the group for the first time may think they are hearing something new and experimental, but the group feels they are only putting a new spin on something that has been passed down from generation to generation.
The group started when Bhava Mitra went to Cebu and first saw Govinda while he was playing the gongs during a school performance. At that time Mitra was invited by friends to perform at a book launch and needed someone to accompany him. So he invited Govinda, who then invited his classmate Rasaymaya as bassists and his brother Jerome as drummer.
After Jerome invited his friend Markey to do percussion, the band’s line up was complete. (Recently they have added a new guy, Bhakta, who is also deeply interested with ethnic music).
In 2002, the band released their first independent album. Included in the ten tracks CD is the song “Kaluluwa” which is a universal soul chant and a call for rain (which seems to work, since it always seems to rain every time they perform that song!) Another stand out song is “Umaga” or morning which they composed on the spot as they were performing during the Ms Earth 2002.
What happened was that they were running out of songs during the long gown competition, after a brief pose, they begun to improvise.
It sounded so good that they decided to include the song in their first album.
Aside from the Ms Earth competition, the group has performed in events such as “Sarap to sundown”, “Octoberfest 2004” in Mindanao and Fete dela Musique 2004 and 2005. They are currently working on their next album.
KADANGYAN is an Ifugao term which means "Rich in Culture".
The group started from a group of visual and performing artists and decided to concentrate into music as an ethnic band way back October of 2000.
Now KADANGYAN specializes in tribal and ethno - cultural music and performances and as an ethnic band. The group is also capable of performing acoustic native rituals on stage, theatres and some private gatherings and occasions.
When the group front acted for the band “Slapshock” during their album launch in Dipolog, the audience was shocked when they saw the band step out on stage wearing tribal inspired outfits such as g-string, malong and sarong.
The audience immediately began to heckle and jeer the band, but once they started performing, the audience was stunned and some even began to start dancing. By the end of their set, the audience was screaming “I love you Kadangyan!” This is the kind of challenge that Kandangyan face whenever they perform their tribal inspired tunes.
People who encounter the group for the first time may think they are hearing something new and experimental, but the group feels they are only putting a new spin on something that has been passed down from generation to generation.
The group started when Bhava Mitra went to Cebu and first saw Govinda while he was playing the gongs during a school performance. At that time Mitra was invited by friends to perform at a book launch and needed someone to accompany him. So he invited Govinda, who then invited his classmate Rasaymaya as bassists and his brother Jerome as drummer.
After Jerome invited his friend Markey to do percussion, the band’s line up was complete. (Recently they have added a new guy, Bhakta, who is also deeply interested with ethnic music).
In 2002, the band released their first independent album. Included in the ten tracks CD is the song “Kaluluwa” which is a universal soul chant and a call for rain (which seems to work, since it always seems to rain every time they perform that song!) Another stand out song is “Umaga” or morning which they composed on the spot as they were performing during the Ms Earth 2002.
What happened was that they were running out of songs during the long gown competition, after a brief pose, they begun to improvise.
It sounded so good that they decided to include the song in their first album.
Aside from the Ms Earth competition, the group has performed in events such as “Sarap to sundown”, “Octoberfest 2004” in Mindanao and Fete dela Musique 2004 and 2005. They are currently working on their next album.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
DEUS EX MACHINA
| Start: | Sep 23, '06 8:00p |
| End: | Sep 24, '06 8:00p |
| Location: | AIRDANCE Studio, 2nd Flr., The Outlet Yard, 1480 Quezon Ave., Quezon City |
Choreography:
Paul Morales, Bunny Brendia, Avel Bautista, Jay Masta & Jethro Pioquinto
BODY POLITICS: A SEASON OF NEW DANCE
BODY POLITICS brings back our focus to the body: as dancer, mediator of our primal grief and aspiration, and as canvas, the very battleground where politics plays out.
The BODY POLITICS Dance Season heralds a new breed of choreographer and dancer. Young artists culled from the independent dance movement presenting new, fresh, innovative and daring dance works. Held at the studio space, this series of intimate performances afford the audience a special seat to witness and partake of new dance.
Tanghalang Pilipino
http://www.tanghalangpilipino.com
Tanghalang Pilipino was established in 1987, just a year after the first EDSA Revolution, when the country was still full of hope that the housewife who then led it would steer us to the path of peace and prosperity.
This 2006-2007, TP celebrates its 20th season, not with revelry, but through a reflective journey of plays that look into and try to measure, albeit futilely, our worth - in art, love, faith, family, society, history, and even death.
Tanghalang Pilipino was established in 1987, just a year after the first EDSA Revolution, when the country was still full of hope that the housewife who then led it would steer us to the path of peace and prosperity.
This 2006-2007, TP celebrates its 20th season, not with revelry, but through a reflective journey of plays that look into and try to measure, albeit futilely, our worth - in art, love, faith, family, society, history, and even death.
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