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Alleluia Panis Presents: She, Who Can See
After a sold-out run in May 2015 Alleluia Panis' immersive dance work, She, Who Can See in collaboration with composer Florante Aguilar and video artist Wilfred Galila returns to Bindlestiff Studio for eight shows (7pm & 9pm showings) Fri-Sat September 4, 5, 11 and 12, 2015.
Told through dance, film, theater and music-the world of Salima is turned upside down, disrupting her life and sanity when ancestral entities appear in her dreams and just about everywhere else.
Created and conceived by Panis, she draws from indigenous spiritual cultural practices and beliefs, practiced even today in tribal areas and within the Catholic religion. Her Salima, is the composite of several living Americans whose lives are often in a state of fragmentation and unraveling as they struggle with mysterious visions others do not see.
Kularts presents the return of this production:
Fridays/Saturdays September 4, 5, 11 and 12, 2015
7 PM and 9 PM showings each day
Bindlestiff Studio
185 6th Street San Francisco, CA
CAST
June Arellano - Adhara
Rebecca Fazio - Kimat
Jonathan Mercado - Ig
Samantha 'Sammay' Dizon - Ragat
Alexandria Diaz De Fato - Salima
Gregory Manalo - Nico
ABOUT KULARTS:
Founded in 1985, Kularts is the premier presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts in the United States. We are a non-profit arts organization based in San Francisco, California. Kularts presents and produce tribal and contemporary Pilipino art works.
Our mission is to inform and expand the understanding of American Pilipino culture and preserve the spirit and integrity of ancient Pilipino art forms. We produce innovative artistic works; foster mentorship among emerging and established artists; facilitate local and international collaborations; design and implement educational outreach programs and lead cultural tours to the Philippines.
ABOUT ALLELUIA PANIS:
Alleluia Panis, Artistic and Executive Director, is the driving force behind Kulintang Arts, Inc. (Kularts) and respected elder artist in the US and the Philippines. She is an artist who is at home in both Pilipino tribal & traditional arts and American contemporary forms. She has received grant awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New Langton Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission-Individual Artists, Creative Work Fund and Gerbode Foundation.
She has created fifteen full-length dance theaters works since 1980, which have been performed on main stages in the US, Europe and Asia. She has collaborated with numerous artists, including: National Heritage Fellow Danongan Kalanduyan, Santiago Bose, Sean San Jose, composers Florante Aguilar, Jon Jang, Fred Ho, among others. In 2012 she collaborated with Cherrie Moraga in the world premiere of New Fire produced by Brava Theater Center and Jeannie Barroga in Buffalo'ed produced by San Jose Stage. She was the Managing Director for Brava Theater Center and ODC Theater.
She has participated in numerous panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Theater Communications Group, the Ethnic Dance Festival and was an artist committee member for National Performance Network, Yerba Buena Festival. She was a fellow for The J.P. Shannon and Rockwood Leadership Institutes. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center.
ABOUT FLORANTE AGUILAR:
Florante Aguilar is one the leading figures championing Philippine music art forms in the US and international markets today. He advances and popularizes Philippine music through the medium of film, recordings and live performances. His arrangements and compositions successfully craft the right balance between respect and redefinition of a tradition.
Born in Manila, Aguilar grew up in Cavite province where he learned to play the octavina in a rondalla group. By 16 he was enrolled at the University of the Philippines College of Music where he was trained as a classical musician. He later moved to New York under scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory for Music.
His constant search for a tradition-based contemporary Filipino sound led him to champion harana music - songs used in the now-vanished Filipino courtship ritual of serenading, and the subject of the award-winning 2012 documentary, Harana: The Search for the Lost Art of Serenade, which he wrote and produced with his wife and partner, Fides Enriquez. Aguilar has released several CD albums under the private label New Art Media. As a composer, Aguilar uses strong Philippine motifs in a modern context, and has been granted numerous composition awards from prestigious institutions. In partnership with Kularts and through grants from the San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco Arts Commission, Aguilar composed Lalawigan - A Tagalog Song Cycle in 2009 and Aswang - Tales of Lore in 2013.
ABOUT WILFRED GALILA:
Wilfred Galila explores various media for making art and telling stories. As a filmmaker, his works have been screened at the 23rd and 26th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He has worked on various film projects such as the documentaries The Power of Two (2011), an award winning documentary that tells the remarkable story of twin sisters and their lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis, Secrets of a Sister (2011), part of the award winning short film compilation, Still Around, about people from the SF Bay Area thriving and surviving with HIV, and Submerged Queer Spaces (2012), a documentary that examines San Francisco queer history through an approach of urban archeology.
As a photographer, he is the lead artist for Kodakan: Pilipinos in the City a photography and media exhibition mounted at the SF Main Library in 2013-2014 and at the I-Hotel Manilatown Center in San Francisco from May-August 2015. This project explores the diverse identities of Filipinos in San Francisco through time. He has also shot promotional stills for Jay Loyola's Huni Ng Tandikan and Maség Typhoon.
As a writer, his work has been published in Beyond Lumpia, Pansit and Seven Manangs Wild, an anthology of short prose and poetry by Filipino American writers. He has contributed photography, prose, and has designed covers for the Milvia Street Art and Literary Journal of Berkeley City College. He is a co-founder, editor, and contributor to the Berkeley based zine Something Worth Revising.
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LocationBindlestiff Studio (View)
185 Sixth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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