Performance Curators Initiatives

MORE PHOTOS of our conversation last night at the IFTR Working Group on Choreography and Corporeality. Thank you again to all the wonderful dance practitioners and scholars from all over the world and from various contexts of making, who are tirelessly asking the hard questions about our practice and continuing the conversation alive.

Such a pleasurable and productive conversation last night with the IFTR Working Group on Choreography and Corporeality, with dance scholars and practitioners from around the globe. Special to the Filipino contingent .beltran Nicole Primer Ruth Pison and and for their input on the local dance scene. Thank you to the Working Group conveners Rosemary Candelario and Hanna Jarvigen for this partnership. We learned and enjoyed so much. Let’s keep the conversation alive!

We are excited to be partnering with the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Working Group on Choreography and Corporeality for a night of conversation regarding the various issues surrounding dance and dance scholarship in the Philippines and beyond.

The event will be on 16 July 2024, 4-6pm, at the UP College of Music, Mini-hall.

We're honored to have dance artists Kim Sanh Châu and Louise Michel Jackson as well as sound artist Chittakone Baccam Thirakul as our resident artists from Montreal, Canada! The group stayed with us from April 10 to May 3, conducted workshops at Guang Ming College, Contemporary Dance Network Manila, and UPDC - University of the Philippines Dance Company, staged the Philippine premiere of BLEU NÉON at Myra Beltran's Dance Forum, engaged in vibrant conversations with PCI at Hatching Point in QC, and visited our Dumagat indigenous peoples community partners in Dingalan, Aurora, with the Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space - AARPS. May our continuing connections foster deep and caring exchanges and collaborations!

We would also like to thank the generosity of the UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, the UP College of Music-Diliman, and Contemporary Dance Network-Manila for supporting us in making this exchange possible.

Our guest artists 𝐊𝐢𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐡-𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮 conducting movement workshop with the UPDC - University of the Philippines Dance Company. In the workshop, Kim Sanh-Chau, assisted by her collaborator 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧 explore sensorial and somatic experiences through somatic body. Drawing from her movement practice demonstrated in the performance 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐧, Chau explores the various facets of the squat position and how this position relates to its various physical, historical, and philosophical experience and perspective.

Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), together with Myra Beltran's Dance Forum, Contemporary Dance Network Manila, UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, and the UP College of Music-Diliman, present 𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐔 𝐍𝐄́𝐎𝐍, this 𝟐𝟕 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑, 𝟕:𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐦, at the 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝟑𝟔𝐄 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞, 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬. The event is in participation with UPDC - University of the Philippines Dance Company and the Contemporary Dance Network Manila.

In BLEU NÉON, Montreal-based Vietnamese-French contemporary dance artist 𝐊𝐢𝐦-𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐚̂𝐮, explores her body memories of her homeland Saigon, Vietnam, imagined and reimagined, through a series of rituals based on lighting elements.

As she describes in her online teaser,

"In a distant, fictional Vietnam, the echoes of pop music on cassette tape reverberate against the sounds of modern Vietnamese rap. Châu Kim-Sanh inhabits this space, metamorphosing through bodily states generated by the presence of coloured neon lights. Of this evening blue erupts a purpleness: “bầu trời màu tím xẩm” – an uncertain translation. Eyes closed, the neon haze returns her to the sensation of her ancestral land. Saigon, like many cities in South Asia, is flushed with these vivid lights. Here, embodied memory and the imaginary take a ride on a Honda Dream II motorcycle, across a humid sky whose wetness whips the face.

This solo is performed in its entirety from the squat position – a typically Asian posture. Audio recordings bespeckle the choreography, navigating between fantasized nostalgia, loss of language, and sexual objectification—all three widely experienced by Asian diasporic populations. In Southeast Asia, rap culture is increasingly popular—giving a voice to a population marked by silence. Rap here is a prayer."

For this Philippine performance of BLEU NÉON, 𝐊𝐢𝐦-𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐚̂𝐮 will be joined by 𝐇𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞, and 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧.

Everyone is welcome to attend the performance and pay whatever they can.

The Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI) is honoured to be part of this years Festival Acces Asie through the dance film/video program "Acts of Reclamation," which featured the dance film/videos "White Funeral" by Sari Dalena and Myra Beltran, "You're so Delicious Maria" by John Carlo Nova and Jared Jonathan Luna, "Sagot" by Roselle Pineda, Loujaye Sonido and Lorelei Bulan, "Panighaw" by Gerone Centeno and Edwin Quinsayas, and "Wang-wang" by Roselle Pineda, Loujaye Sonido, Mark Diego, Dingdong Selga, Jmac Acol and Jomatz Quiambao, presented in Montreal, Canada.

The films will be available for viewership through this link for 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd55iAGdGDjQZVgKwse4zhy7zFJc8SDKe

In the photo: After screening talk back with the curators Roselle Pineda and Loujaye Sonido, with participants and Festival Acses Asie festival director Khosro Bheramandi.

Thank you very much for all those who attended the showing and participated in the very engaged conversation afterwards about art, social responsibility and what is to be done in these precarious times.

Special shout out to choreographer Jomatz Quiambao and long-time PCI collaborator Dena Davida, for being there and being part of the conversation.

Thank you to Khosro and the Festival Acces Asie team for making this happen albeit the long journey that we took towards the end of this phase of our collaboration. Let's continue to forge this path towards more exchange between artists across our contexts.

Most of all, much gratitude to our collaborators - filmmakers, choreographers, performers - who entrusted their works for our curation and presentation.

Taos pusong pasasalamat sa inyong lahat.

Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI) will present dance film selections from the Philippines at the Festival Accès Asie.

May 13 at 9 pm 👉 Acts of Reclamation: Video Dance Screening in Montreal, Canada (May 14 at 7:30am PH Time)

Curated by Roselle Pineda and Loujaye Sonido, the selection will feature works by Sari Dalena, Myra Beltran, John Carlo Nova, Jared Luna, Edwin Quinsayas, Gerone Centeno, Jomatz Quiambao, Jmac Acol, Dingdong Selga and Lorelei Bulan.

Acts of Reclamation - Festival Accès Asie Festival Accès Asie projection vidéo-danses Philippines Roselle Pineda, Louise Jashil R. Sonido, White Funeral Sari Dalena Nagimaskan Mayyang

SHARING the PCI Podcast Interview presented by our media partner culture360 ASEF with PCI Artistic Curator Roselle Pineda and PCI Manager Angela Lawenko Baguilat:

culture360 is delighted to talk to the founders of Performance Curators Initiatives or PCI, an independent network of curators, scholars and practitioners in performance curation, whose primary goal is to foster exchanges and discussion on the practice and study on the emerging field of performance curation, in the Philippines and elsewhere.

We will be speaking with the organisers of PCI: Artistic Director Roselle Pineda and Communications Manager Angela Baguilat, about the PCI online symposium they organised last October. We will discuss together the trends & challenges that emerged during the discussions and what are the future plans for the network.

The 2020 virtual symposium was the second of its kind organised by PCI. It was a direct response to the present Covid-19 pandemic and the need to rethink and reimagine performance and gathering in the time of physical distancing, forced isolation and restricted in-person interaction.

Within the arts sector, performing arts have been among the most affected by the restrictions in place in the last months. To support the artists and their practice, the role of curators has increasingly been recognised as instrumental in looking at ways in which the sector can survive.

Has the sector adapted to new models of interaction? What is the role of the curators in facilitating this transition? These are some of the questions that we will be asking our guests.

Podcast series #3: In conversation with Performance Curators Initiative culture360, the arts and culture website of the Asia-Europe Foundation is delighted to talk to the founders of Curators Performance Initiatives or PCI, an independent network of curators, scholars and

Sharing this wonderful initiative/performance from one of our partners –– Dance Base Yokohama. Do not miss.

Date: Nov. 14th, 2020
Time: 17:30 (Japan Standard Time) (Duration: Approx. 40 minutes)

*We are planning to have a post-show discussion afterwards. Unfortunately, we are hosting this in Japanese, but we would love to hear from you separately about your thoughts and feedback.

Ryu Suzuki, up and coming choreographer and DaBY’s own Associate Choreographer, has gathered young musicians, video creators, dramaturges, dancers, producers, and set designers with an architecture background to create a choreography piece rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration. Through numerous exchanges of ideas and discussions, they fully cherish their multiplied and complicated point of view in the creative process, ultimately seeking to propose new modes of creating dance.
The choreography piece, which will be presented this weekend, brings attention to the borders often drawn between good or evil. Focusing on the forces that pull us toward and away from these borders, the three bodies on stage (Ryu Suzuki, Kana Ikegaya, and Kohei Fujimura) express the fluid and mutating bodies that oscillate between two opposing forces.

In the Philippines, the Duterte government and it’s cohorts have started red-tagging or communist-tagging dissenters of the state. Note that communism is deemed illegal in the country, hence, to be tagged as red, has great implications of people’s well-being and security.

This prompted the and campaign.

Red lipstick historically has been used to symbolically resist oppression, suffragists used to symbolise women power, people used it to resist Na**sm, and some guerilla women warriors such as Kumander Liwayway was known to don red lipstick before going to battle.

This is the time to put on our red lipstick again people! Wear red! Wear your red lips! Be proud, show your solidarity and resist tyranny!

I am Red and proud.





Roselle Pineda (PCI Curator)

What a deeply-engaging and enlightening week of conversation that was!

With that, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to our speakers, partners, moderators, facilitators, and participants for taking time out of your busy duties/schedules to attend the symposium and to all your organizations/affiliations for sending excellent participants to our event.

We couldn't have done it without all of you. There was so much thoughts and inspiration to draw from during conversations in the symposium together that we wished there was more time. What we do know is that these conversations and reflections will continue and we hope that what we have learned through the symposium will help us a lot in our fields and practices, and lead meaningful and CARING life in the arts.

MABUHAY AT MARAMING SALAMAT!

PCI Team post-symposium meeting and preliminary assessment. Thank you all for making the symposium happen with us.

Today was the culmination of the conversations we were having for the past few days – topic upon topic, theme upon theme, which generated exchanges of thoughts, ideas and reflections. Ms. Donna Miranda's contextualization of SAKA's socially-engaged art practices, as well as Prof. Angela Baguilat's reflections on her experience managing AARPS community-based live arts projects, bring forth the theories and ideas discussed into practice, in relation to the community. What do we give the community, when we take and involve them in creating and/or curating live arts involving the community? Are we aware of our ethical responsibilities that we may have in this context? Such are some of the questions that led to our closing provocation.

PCI Artistic Director Roselle Pineda closed the session with a provocation that is, in and of itself, an invitation to think and act on what we saw, heard and learned in our conversations – to provoke a response. These conversations are freely chosen and participated into, particularly with an online platform – and we chose to be in these conversations. What we shared during the PCI 2020 Symposium could be seen as invitations and if responded to because they were artfully and deliberately curated, they could become an effective provocation. It is here that the invitation provides us with a chance – an opportunity to contemplate, improve and transform – in this time of halting.

The symposium lasted 6 days, less than one week and it is only a short time in all your life, but we wish that it will be a valuable experience for you to have. With that thought, we would like to thank everyone who attended in today's immersive and closing conversation. Your active participation are the building blocks of the connection, the relationship we wish to foster with you. We look forward to having you as partner(s) in the PCI network.

We would also like to express our gratitude to our PARTNERS Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Culture 360, Japan Foundation – Manila (JFM), and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) for their time and resources to make this symposium happen.

MABUHAY AT MARAMING SALAMAT!!!
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Missed today's plenary?
You can watch our stream here: https://youtu.be/yGIpN0OniXo
Please note that only parts of today's symposium were streamed.
Check out our YouTube channel for more of our content.

Catch our closing provocations for the PCI International Symposium 2020: https://youtu.be/yGIpN0OniXo

PCI Symposium 2020: Closing Provocation - Donna Miranda | Angela Baguilat | Roselle Pineda

ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are opening slots today for our Zoom link meetings. We encourage to sign in and converse with us via the Zoom, for more "real-time" conversations with our presenters and fellow participants.

Date: 7 October 2020, 4:00-6:00PM Philippine Time

Presenters: Myra Beltran (Philippines)
Piersandra Di Matteo (Italy)

Exchange Cafe: Lucia Nacht (Buenos Aires) | PCI Network | Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space | Matugtog Kita | You're So Delicious Maria

Join us in the conversation.

Zoom: 84860707740
Passcode: 150020

Dear all!

A very important note that the PCI International Symposium 2020 is ongoing every day from 4:00-7:00 PM Philippine Standard Time (PST) from 5-10 October 2020.

Thank you very much! See you later for Day 2!

PCI Symposium 2020: Opening & Keynote Program

culture360 Media Partner of Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI) Symposium | ASEF culture360 culture360 is pleased to be the Media Partner of The Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI) Symposium, from the Philippines and online from 5 to 10 October 2020, at 4 to 6 PM (PH Standard Time) via Zoom and YouTube Live. Titled: "Conversations on Curation and Performance in....

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Check the PCI Website for more details about the PCI Symposium 2020!

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We are so proud of UP Dance Company and Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space (AARPS) artist resident for 2017 as she presents the latest iteration first developed during her residency "Paagos/Drift" this coming 4-7 April 2019, in Montreal Canada to be presented by Tangente. Please support Sarah Maria Samaniego if you are in the area and come see her presentation.

Goodluck Sarah! From your PCI and AARPS Family!

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It is one year ago today when we concluded the Performance Curators Initiatives inaugural activity and symposium.

The symposium remains to be a very overwhelming experience for all of us at PCI.

Since then we have been working from the sidelines and had helped opportunities to open up for young and independent practitioners and more ideas to simmer slowly and surely from the ground.

See you all soon. In 2020 fingers crossed.

After the PCI Symposium, our delegates and guests went on a 2-day site-visit to CASITA AURORA in Dingalan, where they had the opportunity to meet the local Dumagat community.

PCI works closely with Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space - AARPS. AARPS is an independent and non-profit residency program and space, focused on initiating discussion on community empowerment and sustainable environment, through culture and the arts.

For more information, please visit
www.facebook.com/CasitaAuroraArtResidency

Final day of the PCI Symposium last September 29, 2017.

Sincere gratitude to everyone who supported us, and who willingly shared their thoughts and experiences during and after the talks. We're still trying to process what has transpired during these past several days so please bear with us. We're still at a loss for words.

One thing we're certain of is that it was a very heartfelt and sincere gathering. Our souls are overflowing with joy and wisdom.

We wish success for everyone's projects and fulfillment for everyone's passions. Until we see each other again!!!

Thank you Philippine Collegian for the feature and the wonderful photos!

📷 : Patricia Louise A. Pobre 👏👏👏

The Performing Curators' Initiative (PCI) presented Con.Current: Movement Provocation at the Bulwagan ng Dangal, September 29.

Photos by Patricia Louise A. Pobre