Rosas ng Maynila
Rosas Danst Rosas is the iconic work of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, that secured her place in contemporary dance history, as that of her company Rosas. To celebrate the company’s and the work’s thirtieth anniversary, the Fabuleus Rosas Remix Project collected over 152 videos of interpretations of Rosas Danst Rosas from all over the world, as Keersmaeker herself filmed a video teaching her work, declaring to the world, “You dance Rosas.” Selected videos, including Myra Beltran Dance Forum’s own Rosas ng Maynila, were screened before a live restaging of Rosas Danst Rosas in Brussels.
Rosas ng Maynila from Myra Beltran on Vimeo.
Itim Asu
(a dance & multi media production based on the drama of Virginia R. Moreno)
Direction and choreography by Myra Beltran
Video by Sherad Anthony Sanchez
Music design by Teresa Barrozo
Featuring U.P. Dance Company with Marielle Alonzo and Reagan Cornelio
This contemporary dance piece combines video, dance and music / sound art to render this significant drama into a contemporary language.
Frida en el Espejo
As part of Instituto Cervantes’ celebration of the life and work of Frida Kahlo, Myra Beltran premieres her solo piece “Frida en el espejo” (Frida before the mirror) on July 28, 2007, 8pm at Instituto Cervantes. Frida Kahlo wrote her body into canvas. Her self-portraits are strong statements of herself as artist and woman. Dance is writing with one’s body, and this solo piece juxtaposes this writing with Frida Kahlo’s own writing on canvas.
Choreography and performance by Myra Beltran
Video by Ruelo Lozendo
Animation by Darwin Go
Production design and management by Otto Hernandez
Music by Arvo Paert, Camille Saints Saen and Henryck Gorecki
With the special participation of Marjorie Evasco performing “Luna’s lost earrings”
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Nutcracker Swit
Beltran has choreographed “Nutcracker Swit,” a one-hour contemporary dance piece that retells “the classic as an adventure of a poor young boy, his loves, and desires, in scenes that meld together fantasy and reality.”
“The ‘swit’ is a play on Tchaikovsky’s ‘suite’ and the ‘sweets’ from the ballet. This show is my imagination of my parents’ childhood, from the 1930s to 40s, and of their projection of desires couched in 1950’s pop culture,” she says. “The dance is filled with wonder, whimsy, and hope.”
“I Thought”
(Answer In Protest to Senate Bill 2679)
In response and protest againt the proposed Senate Bill 2679, designating a National Ballet Company, multi-awarded dancer and choreographer Myra Beltran posted: “I Thought (An Answer and in Protest to Senate Bill 2679),” in which she danced while her voice can be overheard and text is continuously flashed on the screen. It ended with “I thought that the only honor that mattered was the one not actively sought but the one which was collectively and freely bestowed. Tell me, was I then horribly, horribly wrong?”