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LIVELY 28th SEASON
Over 50 shows nationwide. New works and road tours ensure exciting season

Baguio shows draw in large crowds


IPAG joins two international events
Tokyo hosts the 2005 Asia Meets Asia festival and the Hawaii Commission invites IPAG to highlight the 2006 Centennial

IPAG in National Choreographers Workshop
Choreographers learn from the masters in one week workshop in Koronadal

RECENT EVENTS
'Buena Mano' for Adamson Theater
IPAG in Adamson Theater inauguration

New Work premieres in Taipei, performs in Tokyo
Taipei premiere opens to international acclaim

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Baguio shows draw in large crowds
Baguio audiences packed the University of Baguio and the St. Louis University gyms to watch 6 shows of IPAG's Tales From Mindanao last July 21, 23, and 25. On its 28th Season road tours, IPAG performs over 50 shows nationwide of these dance theater productions that have enthralled large audiences worldwide. See full schedule above.
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28th Season guarantees exciting fare
IPAG's 28th Theater Season opens in June with new and remounted productions that promises to thrill theater and dance habitués nationwide. IPAG continues to tour in and out of the country its two signature dance-theater productions Tales From Mindanao and Tatlo sa Isa, and the play Ming Ming. A new comedy Babuyan Island by Palanca winner German Gervacio topbills IPAG's September schedule (double-billed by Fernandez's Kawing) at the MSU-IIT CASS Rooftop Theater in Iligan. New experimental dance-music pieces that highlight the images of Man in Mindanao in an intimate production premieres in February 2006. These dance pieces will merge the poetry of today’s important poets, and will involve the collaboration of visual artists, puppeteers, and musicians. IPAG's road tours will take its dance-theater productions to more sites in Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Check this site for regular updates and schedules.
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IPAG in Tokyo in October and Hawaii in July 2006
Asia Meets Asia Theater Festival features "Reviving Subalternity," the IPAG collaborative work with other Asian Artists, joining other contemporary Asian theaters in Tokyo from October 17 to 23. This bi-annual festival promotes the exchange of culture and theater practices. IPAG also highlights the Philippine Centennial celebration in Hawaii with a 5-island tour of its acclaimed Tales  From Mindanao in July 2006 upon the invitation of the Hawaii Centennial Commission. Updates will be posted.
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IPAG is 'buena mano' in Adamson Theater inaugural
Adamson University opened Manila's newest theater in its campus last Thursday, June 23, with the IPAG providing the main feature. The hour-long program also featured the AdU choir, pep squad, and local talents to important guests that included Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and CCP President Nes Jardin. IPAG performs a 10-show season in this theater starting in August 12.
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IPAG choreographers learn from the masters
Melvin Pascubillo, Amado Guinto, and Leilani Monterola, members of IPAG's choreographers pool, joined nineteen other choreographers in a week-long national workshop at the Pro-Tech Center in Koronadal, South Cotabato. The workshop was conducted by former Ballet Philippines Artistic Director Denisa Reyes and dance scholar Steve 'Basilio' Villaruz. The program is funded by the Dance Committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. It upgrades the skills of region-based choreographers. Iligan expects to host the next workshop in November. IPAG dancers have recently undergone intensive workshops in the Vaganova, classical, and modern techniques to enhance their craft in the indigenous idioms.
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New Work premieres in Taipei
The IPAG with Sovanna Phum Theater of Cambodia, Waterfield aboriginal Theater of Taiwan, and theater and dance artists from Hongkong, Japan, and Taipei premiered the collaborative "Reviving Subalternity" at the Hua Shan Art District in Taipei City last December 29 (7:30 p.m.). Theme of this modern theater produced by Asia Meets Asia is: Resisting Assimilation and the Destruction of Civilization." The premiere kicks off this production's Asian tour which will be next seen in October 21-23 in Tokyo, Japan. Indigenous movements and cultural expressions are given new meanings as these are reinvented to express the growing global concerns on genocide and the destructions of regional cultures. 

Co-directing the production is Steven Patrick C. Fernandez with Sovanna Phum Artistic Director Mann Kosal. Dramaturgy is by King C. Lok, and produced by Watan Wuman of Waterfield Theater. Melvin Pascubillo of IPAG facilitates the choreography. Performing are Leilani Monterola, Wenna Balaido, Sam Pysak, Chumvan Sodhachivy, Pascubillo, Fernandez, Kosal, Lok, and various other performing artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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photo credits: Saki Binudin/IPAG/Robert Booc/IOV Taiwan/Ronald Salazar/Arvin Solis