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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Magenta
Born in 1996, Magenta is an interdisciplinary artist from Baguio City. His practice includes visual art, dance, music production, performance art, and design, merging them with meditative practices. An immigrant from Cavite, his exposure to religion, folk practices, Manila underground cultures, and traditional arts led him to merge esoteric motifs and abstraction into his work. He is interested in exploring the human psyche and its interaction with supernatural phenomena, and how mythology and folklore mirror the complexities of the reality we currently face.
Alvin Collantes
Alvin Collantes (He/They) is a Transfemme Filipinx and Canadian Immigrant performance artist based in Berlin, Germany. Their work bridges the disciplines of Gaga Movement Language, holistic bodywork, pleasure activism, queerness and the art of drag. Their artistic practice centres around topics of migration, emotional upheavals of assimilation and excavating pre-colonial queer identities to build post-colonial possibilites.
