IndepenDance Forum 1.1: an instruction manual in low-res
(reflections on Doris Humphrey’s The Art of Making Dances)
April 23, 2015, 7pm
Dance Forum Space, 36E West Ave., QC
Choreography by Myra Beltran, Al Bernard Garcia, and Sarah Maria Samaniego
With a talk by Ms. Denisa Reyes
“IndepenDance Forum 1: an instruction manual in low-res” contains our reflections on Doris Humphrey’s book, “The Art of Making Dances,” a book that is staple reference for compositional theory in dance. Humphrey (1895-1958) was a modern dance pioneer of the 1930’s whose influence we discuss as we try to find the relevance and meaning of our dance practice in contemporary society.
Tickets P150 with student and senior discount
www.mbdanceforum.com / www.myrabeltrandance.com for info: 09277849579
Real Time
Wi-fi body festival 4
indepenDance (choreographers’ platform)
July 4, 2009, 8pm
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theatre)
Dance is a technology. Dance is a response. Dance is a series of events happening simultaneously.[read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] “Real Time” flashes you thru moments in the current story of Philippine contemporary dance. Whether 13, 6 years, or a month ago, the same embedded real-time technology runs thru the works presented here. Dancers, collaborating artists – all creating the present that is both past and future.
Navigate your way thru all this happenings, this coming together, this breathing and responding – all in real time.
“Real Time” is co-presented with Airdance in collaboration with Asian Composers League Philippines and the generosity of friends. It presents works that have been premiered in a Dance Forum production, celebrating collaboration with artists and friends through the years.
collaborating artists:
Myra Beltran (dance)
Paul Morales (dance and video)
Jethro Pioquinto (dance)
Ava Maureen Villanueva (dance)
Rhosam Prudenciado Jr. (dance)
josefino toledo (music)
Christine Muyco (music)
Mary Talusan (music)
Kabaitan Bautista (music)
Sherad Sanchez (video)
Ruelo Lozendo (video)
Regina Lasam (video)
Miyako Isiuchi (photography)
Nostalgia: Le Tango
July 7, 2007, 8pm, Dance Forum Space, 37 West Ave., Quezon City
July 12, 2007, CCP Little Theater for the Wi_Fi Body 2
Myra Beltran’s Dance Forum marks 10 years with Nostalgia: Le Grand Tango
Ten years back, Dance Forum opened its studio as an alternative performing space and independent dance has not looked back since.
Dance Forum celebrates the past ten years in the choreography of Myra Beltran in Nostalgia: le grand tango. Violinist Alfonso Bolipata plays in this entire evening of all-tango music by Astor Piazzolla in a quintet of piano, harmonium, clarinet and bass. [read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] Performances are on July 7, 2007 8pm at Dance Forum Space, 36E West Avenue and on July 12, 2007, 8pm at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Little Theatre for Wi_fi Body Festival 2.
Also performing are dance artists Paul Morales, Christine Crame, Jun Saagundo, Marielle Alonso and Vincent Egido, with Jourdan Petalver on piano, Punnu Wasu on harmonium, Jayson Rivera on clarinet, and Ariston Payte on bass.
Contemporary dance needs your support and encouragement. Celebrate with us as we re-live the first spark of independent dance – in its subversive and independent spirit, and always, with passion.
The July 7 show at Dance Forum Space is pay what you can. Tickets for July 12 will also be offered at a discount. For ticket reservations, contact 0917-5219227, email danceforum.mb@gmail.com and log on to www.mbeltrandanceforum.com
A Dance Forum production in cooperation with Casa San Miguel Foundation with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Lyric Piano.
Re-Performing
(following the choreography of Myra Beltran)
Ava Maureen Villanueva
Herbert Alvarez
Rhosam Prudenciado Jr. with Airdance and U.P. Dance CompanyIn a choreographic career that started in 1989, at Roberto Villanueva’s installation, “Labyrinth”, Ms. Myra Beltran has been largely responsible in shaping current contemporary dance practice in the Philippines. Join us as we celebrate 15 years of Dance Forum and her 21 years of independent contemporary dance practice, by “Re-performing”. [read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] Myra Beltran tread the beaten path to pioneer independent contemporary dance in the Philippines. She received the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Alab ng Haray Award for individual recognition in the performing arts 2001 and the Tanging Parangal from the City of Manila 2007.Contemporary Dance Network Philippines (CDNP) is the pioneering network of dance artists working in contemporary dance in the Philippines. With Ms. Beltran as founding director, it initiates the Wifi Body Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Contemporary Dance Map Series, which in 2010 included the highly innovative LRT Dance Express.
Dance Forum, in celebration of its role in defining independent dance practice in the Philippines, stages “Signature” on Nov. 17 and 18.
The show features works that have the respective dance artist’s undeniable stamp – dance with a highly personal artistic vision.
To be showcased are contemporary dance artists Myra Beltran and Paul Morales in signature pieces as well as the works of the winners of the recently concluded Wi-fi Body Festival’s New Choreographers Competition, the first choreography competition for the solo-duet form in the Philippines.
An alternative, intimate and open-air performance venue, Dance Forum was founded by Beltran in 1995.
Beltran, a leading figure in Philippine independent dance, conceptualized and lead the World Dance Alliance-Philippines Choreographers’ Network in the groundbreaking Contemporary Dance Map Series and the Wi-fi Body Festival at the CCP. …