“When body becomes writing”

(Gender, Culture and Sexuality) By Myra C. Beltran First published: “When Body becomes Writing,” Review of Women’s Studies: Discours(s), Sexuality and the Arts, vol. xvii, no. 1-2.  2008-2010. Myra Beltran in “Scarred is Beautiful” at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Tanghalang Huseng Batute, 2004 Dance is firstly, an experience. Writing about dance could then be an ambiguous, […]

contemporary dance perspective no. 1

(1999) “ … the mark of divinity is movement:  it breaks through the pattern of what is the case, altering what it touches, for good or for ill.  The solemn word for this is transformation, the simple one is change.” – Dudley Young, Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War [1] [1] (Young 1992) A generation of […]

Space, Time, Narrativity: a conversation with Myra Beltran and Sherad Sanchez

“Space, Time, Narrativity: a Conversation with Myra Beltran and Sherad Sanchez”Introduction By Ruth Jordana L. Pison A conversation between filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez and Myra Beltran intersecting dance, film with literature in this online journal of UP DECL You can read or download the pdf here: https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.p…/…/article/view/6888 The article can be found in:Narrativizing Dancing BodiesVol. […]

History’s Black Wolverine

by Sylvia L. Mayuga As published in Philippine Graphic Magazine, Vol. 21, no. 12, Aug. 23, 2010 The sixties rushed to the seventies with Molotov cocktails shattering glass to a million fragments as the literary grapevine buzzed: Barang, our poet’s poet Virginia Moreno, was writing a play on La Loba Negra. Word was that Quijano […]

Double Feature (a dance event)

“DANCERS CURATE 1” and “IndepenDANCE FORUM forum 2: WITH MARTHA” Collaborators: Myra Beltran, Al Bernard Garcia, Sarah Maria Samaniego, Fo Guang College & UP Dance Co. April 27, 2016 7pm Dance Forum Studio 36E West Ave., QC a Dance Forum M.B. production for Contemporary Dance Map 2016 (member, Contemporary Dance Network Manila) For info, contact […]