My friend Katya and her family just opened up a GORGEOUS boutique photo studio/art/performance space in Pioneer Street in Pasig. It's really near PC Center and H&M. It's an amazing place right out of the movie Blow Up. It's really one of the most glamorous performance/photo/event spaces I have ever seen in Manila. Go there this Friday. I know I am. My friend Donna is performing.
WEWILLBEWAITINGATTHETURNING: DANCE + LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE
CHOREOGRAPHY / DONNA MIRANDA
CAST / DONNA MIRANDA / RED LASAM / CLARISSA MIJARES
LIVE SOUND / RIA MUÑOZ / ATCHOO ILAGAN
8 PM NOVEMBER 27 (Thursay)-28 (Friday)
PIONEER STUDIOS 123 Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong City
Counting broken paths in between breath and deeply drawn sighs. Together our bodies traverse the familiar borders of an imagined territory. On the bleeding edges of time, history marks the body. What is left of the traces? As we continue to wait by the tangent of each crossing every glance, heave and exhalation carries an energy contained within. Underneath some kind of rage perhaps? Shadows catching emotions held back in favor of inertia and momentum.
In this new piece, Donna Miranda and The Lovegangsters beg the not-so-obvious. Heeding incessant calls to shut up and dance. Yet taking the not-so-easy route of restraint whilst writing the contours and layers of its physicality. And because the most violent thing to do is to do nothing, emotions will be put aside in favor of the somber. Peeling away the veneer of myth-making that is burden of dance. Like the potter who tempers clay or the craftsman who talks to glass, breathe is tamed into form that bring silent guilty pleasures. Out of the mold we break. See you at the turning!
The Lovegangsters is an open collective of artists, autodidacts, hangers-on and talkers working in contemporary dance, sound, new media and performance. Established in January 2008 by Donna Miranda as platform to initiate creative frameworks for multidisciplinary intervention and art actions. It seeks to bring together thinkers and doers from diverse scholarly, cultural and artistic backgrounds to re-assert the practical position of art in our daily lives yet also advancing performance studies in the Philippines. It has since mounted performance projects in Manila, Yokohama and Berlin strengthening its links with the local and regional community of artists working in contemporary performance.
Pioneer Studios is a new 224 square meter boutique photo studio and events place catering
to the publishing, advertising and art+design industries.
Admission price: 500 Pesos (Admits 2 Persons)
Cash Bar: Beer, Wine and Soda
Pioneer Studios is a new 224 square meter boutique photo studio and events place catering
to the publishing, advertising and art+design industries.
Admission price: 500 Pesos (Admits 2 Persons)
Cash Bar: Beer, Wine and Soda
Presented by The Lovegangsters in cooperation with Pioneer Studios
For inquiries call 623 7683 or 0926 6635606
thelovegansters@gmail.com
shoot@pioneerstudios.ph
