transcreating Mindanao indigenous dancesIndigenous Mindanao dance-music is translated to the stage. The workshop teaches the cultural contexts in the dances' features and execution. Lessons treat dances as living expressions taught through "bio-mechanics" (the study of muscle and gravity forces on the body in motion) around a lifestyle that evolve these dances. The participant learns five (5) dance-music expressions of selected lumad and Moro communities. The foundation piece is the Tausug pangalay, which is also the IPAG signature idiom. A recital culminates this course. (5 days)

direction&choreographyFocus here is on how ideas and expressions transform to the performance space. This course in the intermediate level assumes that participants will have available material for their translation to the stage. The director (and/or choreographer) takes the roles of re-creator, interpreter, and manager of tangible and intangible resources he forges. Practical abilities merge with theories (from Western, Asian, and Philippine Aesthetics) to wield an acceptable dramaturgical skill. Snippets of plays, dance vignettes, and scenarios are the laboratories for mounting and evaluation. A recital culminates this course.(5 days)

organizing&managing cultural groupsApplying the case studies of homegrown dance, theatre, and art groups, this course presents solutions in the management and sustenance of culture- and art-oriented organizations. The lessons are developed from IPAG's continuous 33-year experience as a company. IPAG's sustenance is complemented by its large network of auxiliary institutions. This course takes IPAG's own product-service-client experiences to conduct a hands-on workshop for already-existing groups or for those wishing to organize groups or programs. The course treats production-stage management separately from the management of organizations that discuss topics on visioning, strategies, marketing tools, procedures of operations, sustenance, and the strengthening of intangible resources. These tools of management are studied on a level comprehensible to the inadequate local conditions of homegrown groups. (3 days)

creative writing: poetry/fiction/playwriting/scenario writing/scriptwritingThe Creative Writing sessions in these genres will conduct classes in 2 levels: appreciation and application. Samples will be evaluated. The participants are required to submit their works beforehand as these become bases for their craft's improvement. Clear, concise writing, employment of devices, studies of technique, and criticism are some of the topics the study of creative writing takes. Handling the Creative Writing courses are the mainstays of the Iligan National Writers Workshop. A readers' recital culminates this course. Lectures, too, are conducted for participants wishing to learn about the appreciation of Literature. (depending on no. of participants)

LECTURE - DEMOS

appreciating the Humanities a multi-media lecture that sweeps through the study of the Humanities and suggests methods for the subject's appreciation. The principle that Art is taken not as a separate reality but relates to relevant human activities is the root of the lecture.

transcreating poetry for the stage Transcreation is the creative process when a subject expressed in one medium is re-expressed, or re-formed, in another or other multiple mediums. Transcreation is not translation or adaptation. Meaning, feeling, and insight in the original subject remain the same when the original (the Source) is transposed to another form. The lecture will be multi-media illustrated and, when possible, process will be performed.