Event #2196: INDIE CONTEMPORARY DANCE FEST

Start Date: 2006-8-17 End Date: 2006-8-20 Country: PHL Category: Conference URL: http://www.mbeltrandanceforum.com WI_FI BODY independent contemporary dance festival 1 August 17-20 Cultural Center of the Philippines This festival gathers dance artists who have been producing and creating exciting, innovative work in contemporary dance. This is the first independent contemporary dance festival and is an initiative of World Dance Alliance Philippines Choreographers� Network, presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with the generous support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Contemporary dance has developed in �alternative� conditions, venues. Thus, this festival attempts to capture the work in their original contexts, in the intimate spaces for which they were created. Experience the works in the various spaces of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. FESTIVAL SCHEDULE August 17-18, 2006 Summer begins and ends as you wish Green Papaya Art Projects 5pm / Tanghalang Manuel Conde (ticket P150) Summer begins and ends as you wish examines the temporal and spatial politics of a live performance en route the first modern ballet Nijinsky�s Afternoon of a Faun. An attempted deconstruction, this solo piece tackles the promise and disillusion of seduction via little take home packages, you can fold, keep, read or even throw away. Volunteers for Comatose Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune 630pm / Tanghalang Huseng Batute (ticket P200) Volunteers for Comatose essays in five solo multi-media pieces the idea that �ugly is beautiful�. Bold, new images of the human body are presented, questioning our concepts of beauty. Carmen de la Cruz Airdance 8pm / Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (ticket P300) Carmen de la Cruz is a Pinoy-retelling of �Carmen,� that famous story of love and unbridled passion, now set in a 1970�s Manila reeking in sex, drugs, religion and politics. This sensuous deconstruction of a timeless crime of passion has an eclectic style and daring physicality. Dancing from the Academe / UP Dance Company / 930pm / Main Lobby Imagining the shape of the future, this program is where dance education meets challenges in choreographic discourse. Innovative and repertory works showcase ways to looking at history and the body, and context in creation. August 19-20, 2006 Crossing Borders Chameleon Dance Theatre 5pm / Tanghalang Manuel Conde (ticket P150) Dance has always lived in a homeland without borders and new work by emerging choreographers attempt to cross all borders in form, in idea, in desire. Crossing Borders is where new meanings emerge. Over 35 and dancing/Order for Masks Dance Forum 630pm / Tanghalang Huseng Batute (ticket P200) Poetry and poetics -- the poetics of being over 35 years old and dancing, and the poetry of Ms. Virginia Moreno, stand back to back in this program. Moreno�s poem �Order for Masks� as dance - as dancers over 35 articulate their aesthetics. Presented by Dance Forum, curation by Myra Beltran. Wi fi Body Gala / 8pm / Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (ticket P300) Working autonomously and independently but connected to the greater idea of contemporary dance, this is the wi fi body of independent dance artists, celebrating and converging in this gala. World Dance Alliance Choreographers� Network with guest performance and choreography by Douglas Nierras� Powerdance, James la Forteza, Alden Lugnasin and many more. Emerging Choreographers / 930pm / Main Lobby (FREE) It�s a party and a jam! Young, emergent voices in contemporary dance showcase their work and jam with each other. Come dance with us! For inquiries please call 3733567 or email wdachoreographers_phil@yahoo.com FOR TICKET INQUIRIES PLEASE CALL CCP Marketing Department 8321125 local 1801 to 1808 or 8323681 CCP Box Office 8323704 www.culturalcenter.gov.ph Tickets available at all Ticketworld outlets in National Bookstore branches and Tower Records 8919999 STUDENT DISCOUNTS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE -- http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=2196&action=approve http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=2196&action=reject http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=2196