Musicals dominate TanghalangPilipino’s line-up for its 26th season (2012-2013) and three doyennes of dance will be part of bringing the productions to life.
Performing arts veterans Fides Cuyugan Asencio, Nonon Padilla and Denisa Reyes join the ranks of Natatanging Gawad Buhay! Lifetime Achievement Awardees honored by the Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (Philstage), in ceremonies held at Star Theater at the CCP Complex on June 16.
Fides Cuyugan Asensio is the recipient of this year’s Philstage Gawad Buhay! for Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts, along with director Nonon Padilla and choreographer Denisa Reyes.
Ballet Philippines, the country’s premier classical and contemporary dance company proudly announces the “The Blue Moon Gala” set on September 26 – 27 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines—Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater).
Ballet Philippines’ “The Blue Moon Series,” a showcase of some of its most well-loved pieces featuring the choreography of such dance stalwarts as Alice Reyes, Agnes Locsin, Tony Fabella, Denisa Reyes, Bam Damian and Alden Lugnasin, among others, took the lead in the third-quarter citations of the 2014 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with collective 16 citations in the creative, performance and technical categories.
The show’s revelatory punch is not confined to its radical casting of a female actor–the exceptional Delphine Buencamino–as Apolinario Mabini
The Gawad CCP Para sa Sining will award eleven individuals and two organizations for their outstanding achievements and contributions to...
Denisa Reyes, this year’s recipient of the Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining for dance, wishes she has more opportunities to do theater productions.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13
BEGINNING in New York in 1987, “Neofilipino” is a platform for Filipino choreographers to make dance the central force in collaborating with the other art forms. Dance artists aired experimental and provocative works that spoke of Philippine contemporary life through dance. This year’s “Take Off” premiers four original pieces by Raul Alcoseba, Jose Jay Cruz, Ma. Elena Laniog, Kris-Belle Paclibar-Mamangon and Ronelson Yadao, interpreted by the country’s leading performers: Candice and Carissa Adea, PJ Rebullida, Jed Amihan, Mia Cabalfin, and the UP Dance Company, among others.
