:: 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.

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

The God machine. Contemporary choreographers collaborate with break dance guru Jay Masta in a hip exploration on love and our narrative expectations.

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.

"ANG HULING ARAW NG LINGGO" screening

Start:	Aug 10, '06 5:00p
Location:	UP Film Center

Written and directed by UP Film Institute fresh graduate Nick Olanka, it features Johnny Delgado, Boots Anson-Roa, Jenifer Sevilla, Baron Geisler, Monica Llamas, Arnold Reyes and Angeli Bayani.

The story spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives. Domeng is involved in networking or multi-level marketing business and plans to encourage his estranged daughter Luna to join in this unscrupulous business. Luna is abandoned by her husband and son so she asks help from her mother Aling Tess. Aling Tess is a landlady who lives alone and fancies a young male boarder named Kulas. Kulas is a grocery store employee who aspires to become a store manager to impress Julie. Julie is a laundry shop attendant who is obsessed with a male customer named Brian. Brian is a nurse in a local hospital who wants to work abroad so he persuades his girlfriend Sally to provide for his "fixer" fees. An accounting graduate who failed to pass the board exam for two consecutive years, Sally enters Domeng's networking business in the hopes of proving her worth. When she found out that networking is a scam Sally plans to take revenge on Domeng. The film illustrates the interconnection of our lives, a cycle of random events in which the decisions we make are as important as the choices we didn't take.

lunes ng hapis

a film by nick olanka.

ang huling araw ng linggo

our cinemalaya 2006 entry. written and directed by nick olanka.

inertia

ayn dimaya's film thesis