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Work-in-progress Showings in Bacolod
 Performance Ecologies

Experience work-in-progress performances by participants of the Performance Ecologies workshop at Orange Projects, featuring daily showcases and a special June 12 performance by facilitator Eisa Jocson.

Performance Ecologies: Work-in-progress Showings

Performance List

Performances will be work-in-progress showings by all participants of the Performance Ecologies workshop, with 3 to 4 pieces presented each day at the Orange Projects space. These daily showings offer a window into the participants' embodied research, collaborative processes, and evolving artistic inquiries. In addition to the participant works, there will be a special performance by the workshop facilitator, Eisa Jocson, on June 12. This event will mark a culmination of the shared exploration and offer a unique insight into Jocson’s own performance practice.

Performance Ecologies: Work-in-progress Showings (Schedule)(PDF, 13 MB)

Corponomy Digest

June 12 | 6PM

Corponomy Digest is a condensed version of the 1hr performance lecture, which reveals different layers of processes involved in each role transformation. Going through the artist’s personal archive of various movement research and training, including documentation of mentor-student transmissions, Eisa Jocson shares the narratives and production of the multiple bodies inhabiting her artistic practice.

Performance Ecologies: Corponomy Digest © Bernie Ng © Bernie Ng

Eisa Jocson

Eisa Jocson is an interdisciplinary artist based in La Union, Philippines. Trained as a visual artist with a background in ballet, she came to contemporary dance through pole dancing. In her works, she explores body politics in the service and entertainment industry as seen through the socioeconomic lens of the Philippines. She studies how the body moves and what conditions make it move – be it social mobility or movement out of the Philippines through migrant work. In her creations, from ‘Death of the Pole Dancer’ to ‘Macho Dancer’ to ‘Host’ to ‘Princess’ to ‘Superwoman Band’ and ‘Manila Zoo’ – capital is the driving force of movement pushing the indentured body into developed geographies. She regularly presents her pieces at renowned theatres and international festivals in Asia and Europe, such as Tanz im August, TPAM Yokohama, Zürcher Theaterspektakel and Frankfurter Positionen. She is a recipient of the 2018 Cultural Centre of the Philippines 13 Artists Award, the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2019, the SeMa-HANA Award 2021 and the Tabori Award International 2023.

RE-CLAIM

June 13 | 4PM

A project that traces, interrogates, and reclaims the Filipino body from dominant colonial, political, and creative institutions that molded and packaged it for commercial consumption. 

Performance Ecologies: Re-claim © Aaron Garcia © Aaron Garcia

Aaron Garcia

Garcia’s work currently explores the potentiality of the body to process and reveal layered landscapes of the Filipino socio-political psyche and how choreography can actively counter political revisionism. Trained in the folk dance tradition, he seeks to interrogate the term’s implication in state mechanism of violence and erasure by invoking the true spirit of folk as a mutable and mutualistic practice. 

The Pangalay of Sulu

June 13 | 5PM

A retelling of the Pangalay rooted in Sulu’s eco-cultural context, Tausug ancestry, and the somatic fluidities of tradition.

Performance Ecologies: The Pangalay of Sulu © Bjork Colao © Bjork Colao

Bjork Colao

Bjork Colao is a storyteller and cultural worker engaged in ongoing research on Mindanao’s culture and heritage, as manifested in daily performativity, tradition, shared language, natural and communal ecologies, and archipelagic imagination. As an artist working across dance, film, writing, community documentation, and art activation, she explores the role of art and culture in community building, spirituality, and contemporary forms of symbiosis.

The Bug’s Permission Slip: Insect Dreams at 30fps

June 13 | 8PM

Arcade dances, insect dreams, bodies in light—Albert moves through memory, ecology, and survival in a bug’s-eye view.

Performance Ecologies: The Bug’s Permission Slip © Goethe-Institut Philippinen © Goethe-Institut Philippinen

Albert Garcia

Garcia’s artistic practice navigates the tension between the documented and the undocumented, tracing the fragile imprints of those who move unseen. Through performance, fieldwork, and visual documentation, he explores the disappearing, the overlooked, and the vulnerable, reflecting on the intersections of ecological fragility and human displacement.

The Singer (Work-in-progress)

June 14 | 2PM

A trans body becomes altar - where pain is sung, freedom stitched. THE SINGER is Bunny Cadag's hymn of transfeminine becoming.

Performance Ecologies: The Singer © Bunny Cadag © Bunny Cadag

Bunny Cadag

Cadag is an artist creating at the nexus between craftwork, performance, and community work; within the tensions and transitions between theatre, as well as installation; and through the voice as a fundamental site of creative resistance and poetic reexistence. Her practice is anchored in indigenous gender diversity and contemporary gender equality and shared through a trans approach to healing and song alongside which she nurtures a decolonial composure toward folklore and tradition.

More is more (Or less)

June 14 | 5PM

A performance lecture/durational performance that explores ‘maximalism’ through scenography, semantics, and auto-ethnography.

Performance Ecologies: Jenny © Jenny Logico-Cruz © Jenny Logico-Cruz

Jenny Logico-Cruz

Jenny Logico-Cruz is a performance-maker, teacher, and cultural worker interested in challenging the process, boundaries, and expectations of performance, as well as exploring novel frameworks and methods of engaging with the audience while tackling significant contemporary issues that intersect the personal, social, cultural, and political. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Langgam Performance Troupe, a Manila-based contemporary performance company focusing on experimental, process-based, and practice-as-research works.

Brown Madonna

June 14 | 8PM

Brown Madonna is a work that queers and reclaims two iconic feminine archetypes—Mama Mary and Madonna—as a response to the commodification of the body under capitalist, heteropatriarchal systems. Blending dance, theatre, and ritual, the piece confronts self-spectacularization while celebrating embodied liberation. Through a postcolonial, queer-feminist lens, Brown Madonna reimagines the divine feminine as both sacred and subversive.

Performance Ecologies: Brown Madonna © Ea Torrado © Ea Torrado

Ea Torrado

Ea Torrado is a queer-identifying La Union-based contemporary choreographer, performing artist, and educator. She explores identity, society and culture, eroticism, spirituality, healing, and environmental care through various mediums such as dance theater, performance rituals, community gatherings, and experimental films. She performed solo and principal roles in productions by the Ballet Manila and Ballet Philippines, before forming her own group in 2014, the Daloy Dance Company. Her body of work has garnered awards such as the Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award, the Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography, and the Asian Cultural Council Grant.

Quantum Heap

June 15 | 2PM

A performance lecture that investigates material culture through dualities of wakefulness and sleep. With the use of immersive texts, off-screen acoustics and flex crop, it interrogates the notion of a learning environment as a singular fixed place and swerves into meshes and layers of thought. The material in question weaves histories of walking, human-botanical migration, plantation economies, and southern oscillations together with a walkthrough on the fibrous material.

Performance Ecologies: Quantum Heap © Zeke Sales © Zeke Sales

Ezekiel Sales

Sales is an artist and researcher whose work revolves around food systems and geography. He has facilitated workshops internationally related to embodied mapping and performances to ground knowledge production in a collective manner.

Sisa Reimagined (Work-in-progress)

June 15 | 3:30PM

A revisit to the tragic maternal figure of Sisa from Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere undergoing a ritual process of self-encounter.

Performance Ecologies: Sisa Reimagined HZ © Sasa Cabalquinto © Sasa Cabalquinto

Sasa Cabalquinto

Sasa Cabalquinto's artistic practice aims to deepen the politics of the body toward personal and collective healing while acknowledging cultural and sociopolitical identities through ancestral remembering, indigenous ritual practices, and decolonial embodiment in the lens of Butoh movement.

Magentaichi

June 15 | 5PM

A dance that explores trance as a survival mechanism where one attempts to exorcise the body as a form of decolonization for inner mutation and alchemy.

Performance Ecologies: Magentaichi © Magenta © Magenta

Magenta

Magenta is a performance artist incorporating dance, painting, craft, and electronic music into his works. With a diverse range of influences such as experimental queer club culture and folklore, his loud, eclectic, and often biophilic expressions explore how mythology, supernatural phenomenons, and animism mirror the realities that we face.

Bibingka

June 15 | 9PM

Bibingka ist eine immersive Versammlung auf der Tanzfläche, die durch die rebellische Linse von Drag, Queerness und somatischen Bewegungen geprägt ist. Inspiriert von ihren Erfahrungen in Toronto und Berlin, erforscht die Arbeit die Spannungen zwischen Assimilation, Widerstand und der anhaltenden Last des kolonialen Blicks. Gemeinsam experimentieren wir damit, wie Vergnügen zu unserer Rebellion wird.

Performance Ecologies: Bibingka © Alvin Collantes © Alvin Collantes

Alvin Collantes

Alvin William Collantes (b. 1989, New Jersey) is a Queer Filipino performance artist based in Berlin (Germany). Their interdisciplinary body-centered practice merges improvisation, contemporary dance, decolonial perspectives, the art of drag, and queer dance floor histories as both archival and embodied sites for resistance and transformation. Through movement and performance, Alvin explores migration, displacement, and the diasporic struggles of loss, memory, and belonging while imagining new possibilities for queer-centred worlds. They are a participant of the Performance Ecologies Residency hosted by the Goethe-Institute Philippines under the curation of Eisa Jocson and Franchesca Casauay, where they continue to deepen their artistic research. Alvin often has premiered works in Futurium Berlin and collaborate with artists such as Kiani Del Valle of KDV Performance Group; Leeroy New, RambaZamba Theatre and Alvin Tolentino of Company Erasga Vancouver, and recently exhibited at Schwules Museum in Berlin for "Young Birds from Strange Mountains." In 2026, Alvin will be premiering their solo work titled "Bibingka" at Tanztage Berlin in Sophiensaele.

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