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updated: December 1, 2007
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IPAG in Taipei Fest
The IPAG returns successful in the
avant garde component of the 9th Taipei Arts Festival
'Tales' road shows draw more kudos
'Tales From Mindanao'
continues its road
shows this December to Cagayan de Oro and the Davao provinces
Theatre
book off the press
Book instructs how to produce theatre in
provincial conditions
Mr. C in IIT
Ryan Cayabyab visits IPAG rehearsals
30th THEATRE SEASON
SHOWS
bookings particulars
Feb. 7-9, 2008
MSU-IIT Gym, Iligan City |
RANAW: ISANG
ALAMAT
a hero misunderstood. Adapted from the North Mindanao legend of Datu
Bato Lakungan. This musical play propelled IPAG to national prominence.
Winner, CCP Playwriting Contest
Direction&PlaySTEVEN
PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
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TOURING PRODUCTIONS |
December
various venues nationwide
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TALES FROM MINDANAO
the highly-acclaimed
international dance-theatre continues to enthrall nationwide audiences. In various
sites: Manila, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, among others.
Mise
en Scene, Music & DirectionSTEVEN
PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
ChoreographyNOLLY
CEBALLOS and IPAG
December
8 (CU, Cagayan de Oro City); 11 (Mati, Davao Oriental); 12 (Ateneo
de Davao); 13 (Panabo); 15 (Univ. of Mindanao, Tagum) |
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bookings on-going |
UWAHIG
Postmodern transcreation of Bukidnon-Maranao-Maguindano epics. Premiered
during the 31st UNESCO International Theatre Festival by
Mindulani.
Philippine representative to the 2007 Taipei Arts Festival, Oct.
27-28, Gunting Theater, Taipei
Mise
en Scene & ScriptSTEVEN
PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
ChoreographyFELIMON
BLANCO and IPAG
DesignsBOOTS
DUMLAO and VICMAR PALOMA
MusicGEEJAY
ARIOLA and the MEBUYAN PEACE PROJECT
Check related articles:
Uncovering Uwahig
(also published in the June 19 issue of The Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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MING-MING
First prize winner in the 2006 Palanca. Three generations of a Moro
family cope with history and survival. Site: Bacolod City
Direction&PlaySTEVEN
PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
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BAK2BAK
Artificial relationships and odd couples make
a play of their lives in these two comedies Babuyan Island by German Gervacio and
Isa Pang Kawing by Steven P.C. Fernandez |
ARCHIVES
29th Season closes
A grand season
produced 76 performances to over 70,000 audiences including 15 full-feature and
10 shortened performances of
Tales from Mindanao
in a two-and-a-half month coast-to-coast tour of Hawaii and the U.S. |
IPAG conducts dance workshop
"Transcreating Indigenous Dances" is the
pedagogy adapted for a workshop in Pagadian City, May 27-31, attended by 40
practitioners and teachers coming from as far as Masbate and Koronadal. |
'New Works' incite
post show gab
Uwahig
and
Of Cocks and Roces
encouraged a
post-performance dialogue with the audience in the plays' 3-week run in Iligan
City. |
IPAG in US road show
blitz
American audiences have responded with 15
standing ovations for 15 full-feature shows of
Tales
From Mindanao in the IPAG's US-Hawaii tour. Check the
US tour
web site.
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IPAG in Taipei Festival
 The
Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) returned successful representing the
Philippines in the prestigious
9th Taipei Arts Festival. IPAG performed
Uwahig on Oct. 27 and 28 in the “avant-garde” component at the
historic century-old Guting St. Avant Garde Theatre.
Two Standing-Room-Only audiences stayed to join
post-performance interaction. The responses were electric. The crowd gave a
standing ovation even after the open forum.
Uwahig stands out for its innovative treatment of folklore in new
symbolic language. Taiwan’s major papers and leading critics have heaped rave
reviews on IPAG’s experimental showcase.
IPAG is widely recognized for its innovations in Philippine Theatre.
Uwahig had its world premiere at the 31st UNESCO
International Theatre Institute Olympics at the Cultural Center of the
Philippines in 2006.
Plans are underway for IPAG to collaborate with Taiwan’s
leading avant-garde theatre director Wang Molin and his company to mount a new
treatment of Shakespeare’s Medea. This play plans to tour Beijing,
Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Manila next year.
Joining IPAG’s company in the festival are
Dr. Steven P.C. Fernandez, DFA (Director and Playwright), Melvin Pascubillo,
Leilani M. Fernandez, Amado Guinto, Kenn Erwin Velasquez, Phoebe Jean Gayanelo,
Jetaime Yamut, Vicmar Paloma (Designer), Felimon Blanco (Co-Choreographer), and
Company Manager Stanley Perry C. Fernandez.
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'Tales' draws more and
more kudos
Pearl Year Celebrations continue
Tales From Mindanao,
the long-running dance theatre production of the IPAG, continues to bring in the
goodwill for its thousands of audiences nationwide. Tales’ 3rd
leg opens at the Capitol University of Cagayan de Oro City with matinee and gala
performances on December 8. The production then travels to the Davao provinces
with shows in Mati, Panabo, Tagum, and Davao City until December 15.
This string of dance-vignettes of Mindanao lore traveled its 2nd leg
last month with much applauded performances at the Assumpta Theatre of
Assumption Antipolo and the Bro. Donato Center for the Performing Arts of La
Salle Greenhills. In August, Tales completed 23 performances in various
Manila and Davao City schools.
Since its premiere in 1991, Tales can claim to be the country’s most
performed dance-theatre production of the most-traveled integrated arts company.
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Theatre book off the press
The test edition of Making Theatre: The Craft of the
Stage will be available soon. This textbook (written by Dr. Steven P.C.
Fernandez, DFA and published by the IPAG) centers its subject on creating
theatre in the regions. According to the book’s author, Making Theatre
fills in the need to create productions in conditions with the most inadequate
of resources, in art, science, and business.
Most theatre books available teach our budding practitioners well but in
situations where infrastructure is absent, or audience is apathetic. Focus is
centered on making use of available resources including physical spaces,
artists, organizers, technology, and their use to transform local subjects and
aesthetics to the stage. Besides sharing techniques of directing, the book
includes parts on how to organize, produce shows in various genres, sell, and
appropriately transcreate indigenous materials for theatre.
This test edition will be used by the Stagecraft classes of the author. Copies
are however available for sale at the introductory price of P250.00.
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Mr. C visits IPAG rehearsals
 Music
maestro Ryan Cayabyab was in town and paid IPAG a visit while the company was
rehearsing before it left for Taiwan. Ryan, who was guest of IPAG director Tibo,
earlier auditioned potential Maranao singers for a band he was planning to form.
Ryan is a friend of Tibo. They were acquaintances since their high school days
at the U.P. in Diliman.
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2006
US-HAWAII TOUR
WORLD TOUR 2002
2002 REVIEWS
IPAG WORLD TOURS
TALES FROM MINDANAO
MORE REVIEWS
IPAG has performed in over 100
cities around the world, in the USA, Hawaii, Monaco, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, the
Netherlands, Austria, United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, .
It won the Grand Prize in the Concourse de
Chanson Internationaux
and was most awarded group of the 13th International Folklore Festival in
Port Sur Saone, France.
It performed for the Philippine Centennial Celebrations in
Hawaii and in 6 other States in the U.S. Mainland. It represented the country in
the 9th Taipei Arts Festival in October 2007. |
photo credits: Arvin
Solis | Saki Binudin | IPAG | Robert Booc
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Taiwan | Ronald Salazar | Steven Fernandez
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