 |
|
27th Season shows open for bookings. Tel: (+63) 492-2354 or call-text 917-7164077 or 917-7161318 or call-fax
(+6363) 2232494 email: steven@iligan.com
|
HEADLINES
26th Season enthralls thousands
Seventy thousand watch over 60 full-length performances nationwide
IPAG premieres 'Ming Ming'
to critical acclaim
National premiere receives enthusiastic attention. IPAG's newest production is toast in CCP Adindanao festival.
India invites IPAG
IPAG is selected Philippine representative in 2004 Mumbai International Festival
EVENTS SCHEDULE
 one turf, two families, three generations, four characters...
a play by
STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ |
April 27, 7:30 p.m. CASS Rooftop Theater, MSU-IIT, Iligan City
May 1, 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
CAP Auditorium, Davao City
(produced by LCB
Performing Arts Center, Inc.)on a national tour |
Tales From Mindanao
national tours
Tatlo Sa Isa
national tours
 |
July 2 - MSU-IIT Iligan City
Leg 1 - July 12-Sept. 30
Manila-Luzon-Visayas
Leg 2 - November 20-December 17
Manila and Luzon
(check CALENDAR for show schedules) |
| Openings of Events |
PEN Natl Conference
Iligan City
April 23 (9:00 a.m.)
11th Iligan national Writers Workshop
Iligan City
April 26 (9:00 a.m.) |
| Auditions and Training |
April continuing 2004 |
CHECK
April-June Shows Calendar
Kudos and flowers for the company after the Bacolod show
recent news
IPAG wraps up 6th-7th touring legs
Banner crowds flocked to IPAG shows in Lipa City, and Cadiz, Escalante, Victorias, and Bago Cities in Negros.The Holy Family School in Teachers' Village,
Quezon City greeted the curtain call of IPAG's "Tales" with a standing ovation. |
'MingMing' in 15-show run for regional premiere
Set in the heart of Moroland,
Ming Ming recreates characters whose lives intertwine in a web of
intrigue, politics, deceit, and romance. The play mirrors the anguish of three generations and the wars that drape an influential clan's conflicts.
|
ARCHIVES
IPAG wows Luzon, Negros in 5th leg
“Tales From Mindanao”
toured Manila, Batangas, and Negros Occidental from November 27 to December 9
Standing Ovations in
Davao-Iloilo shows
A jam-packed Holy Cross
College gym in Davao and full-houses
responded with standing ovations
to IPAG's "Tales" |
ARCHIVES
Iligan Schools feature children's stories
"Mga Kwentong Pambata" performs to 16 school districts in Iligan
IPAG tours Visayas-Mindanao
Closer to home, IPAG performs in key Mindanao and Visayan cities.
|
MILESTONE
In 2002, IPAG performed over 60 shows in a 2-and-a half-month tour of Monaco, France, Belgium, and Spain. 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. Check these pages.
WORLD TOUR 2002
2002 REVIEWS
IPAG WORLD TOURS
TALES FROM MINDANAO
MORE REVIEWS |
IPAG enthralls thousands in 26th Season
Wherever it goes, the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) assures an exciting theater
experience for its vast audiences.  Completing its 26th Theater Season, the IPAG moved
audiences all over the country eliciting much applause and more acclamations in its already celebrated repertoire.
In over 60 performances besides its training and advocacy programs, the MSU-IIT Iligan-based IPAG reached an estimated 70,000 nationwide audiences in this
season alone.
The well-acclaimed “Tales From Mindanao,” IPAG’s international
dance-theater saga, performed in 7 touring legs all over the archipelago mostly in campuses. “Tales” performed in major Metro Manila schools including shows in
Mindanao (Davao, Bukidnon, Iligan), Luzon (Quezon, Batangas) and the Visayas (Boracay, Kalibo, Bacolod, Victorias, Sagay, Cadiz, Escalante, Bago), among
others.
A  children’s
version, “Mga Kwentong Mindanao Pambata” toured local elementary and high schools to interest school children and their teachers about the creative tools of
theater in education. This same production was a regular fare in the Museo Pambata offerings in 2003 and 2004 that engrossed the Museo’s juvenile visitors.
The critically-acclaimed “Ming Ming” by IPAG Artistic Director Steven
Patrick C. Fernandez premiered at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in the Mindanao Arts Festival’s Adindanao.
top
Ming Ming premieres to critical acclaim in CCP
 IPAG's
newest play 'Ming Ming' premiered to a Standing-Room-Only audience at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Huseng Batute last February 22.
Critics agreed that this novel post-modern play was the "most
refreshing development in Philippine Theater today."
The jam-packed theater gave its double thumbs-up approval to the IPAG. Reports indicated that the play had sold out tickets two weeks before the show date.
"Ming Ming" was featured in the 'Adin Danao' Mindanao Arts festival where outstanding Mindanaon works were showcased.
Wrote critic Persha Abubakar in The Philippine Daily Inquirer: “…compelling
psychological drama.... there is a kind of sensual energy rippling through the crowd... This is something they have never seen before...The effect is
gunfire-bursts of insight.... deeply moving and passionate.”
The well-attended post-modern play ran for 15 shows in the CASS Rooftop Theater of the MSU-IIT in Iligan City in February and
March to cap IPAG’s illustrious season.
"Ming Ming" completed a 15-show run in the CASS Rooftop Theater February and March. It goes on a national tour for IPAG's 27th Season.
check
Ming Ming page
Reviews
related article:
Critically-acclaimed Mindanao play kicks off national tour in Davao
top
Mumbai Festival invites IPAG
After a selective screening, the Mahamela Authority of India
selected the IPAG to represent the Philippines in its 2004 Mumbai International Folkdance Festival. IPAG will present its international repertoire of Mindanao
dance vignettes including portions of its "Tales From Mindanao" program. Under the auspices of the International Organization of Folk Art (IOV), the festival
will be held in India's largest commercial capital on May 20 to 31.
top
photo credits: Saki Binudin/IPAG/Robert Booc/IOV
Taiwan
|
|
