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The WORLD TOURS
 | 1994 SINGAPORE International Festival of the Arts 1996 NETHERLANDS Gouda, Schagen International Festival, Holten International Folkloric Festival AUSTRIA Lech, Linz, Schwarzach,Vienna FRANCE Paris UNITED KINGDOM Stockton International Street-Theater Festvial 1997 FRANCE Festival de L’ Ephemere Remiremont, Golbey, Bussang, Faulx, Port-sur-Saone, Soiree Folkloric de L’Aven Riec, Fest Er Mesu Brech, Bannalec, Donzy, Contrexeville, Strassbourg, Bruyeres, Corcieux, Pesmes, St. Denis de Joubet Tomato Festival, Haguenau Hoblon International Folkloric Festival, Niederbronn, Plombieres, Angers Festival du Mondial, Beaufort, Place St. Croix 1998 SPAIN Ourenze International Folkloric Festival, Ribeiro, Castro Caldelas, Viana , O Barco, Xinzo, Bande, Monteforte PORTUGAL Chavez FRANCE St. Maurice, Blain, Gueberwhir, Besancon, Contrexeville, Bourbonne les Bains, Corciex, Erstein, Bain les Bains, Bussang, Metz Interntaional Festrival 2001 TAIWAN Changhua International Art Festival , Taipei International Hand Drum Festival 2002 TAIWAN Far East One Philippine Promotions Festival, SOUTH KOREA World Cup International Kid Festival Daejeon MONACO Monte Carlo FRANCE Paris, 13th Semaine de la Liberte St. Die de Vosges, Fete du Cherises Fougerolle, Bussang, Bain les bains, Besancon, Val d’Ajol, Bray Dune Festival des Folklore du Monde, Ardres Fete de Belle Roze, Lillers, Gravelines, Zuydcoote, Dunkerque, Sainte Fete des Chanter’s Maritime, Luzy, Millay, Gueugnon, La Menitree 49th Assemblee des Coiffes d’ Anjou, Beaufort en Valee, Remiremont, Les Fessey, Port-sur-Saone 13th International Folkloric Festival, Vittel Club Med, Corcieux, Haguenau Fetes du Hoblon, Bischwiller, Brumath, Marienthal BELGIUM Koksidje SPAIN Madrid, Murcia 35th International Mediterranean Festival 2004 TAIWAN “Reviving Subalternity” Hua Shan Art District 2005 TOKYO Asia Meets Asia Festival |
The 2002
World Tours was highlighted with a command performance for dignitaries and royalty at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, in July 5.
An extensive tour of France and Spain follows this opening salvo. Full
schedule and details.
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.
To the
world, the IPAG is a unique dance theater company because it has
trail blazed in using indigenous dance to narrate stories. IPAG
presents a repertoire unlike the usual dance troupe p rogram of
dances strung together by their region-based themes. IPAG has
evolved its own ballet from the pangalay - perhaps our
country’s closest claim to a classical form - to tell stories. The
Philippine-ness of its theater is distinct.
The jubilant
stories have been retold. In Angers, France, IPAG disrupted the gala
performance of the international folkloric festival with a 15-minute
curtain call. In the Haguenau festival, IPAG was one of the top
three groups among the world's representatives. The applause was
spontaneous, the standing ovations long and jubilant in the
festivals in Holten (Netherlands), Strassbourg, Remiremont, St.
Denis de Joubet (France), Stockton (England), and in Lech,
Innsbruck, Linz, Schwarzack, Vienna (Austria) and Orenze (Spain),
among others.
 The European tours followed the Tales' national premiere at the Cultural Center of
the Philippines in the 1992 National Theater Festival, extensive
Philippine tours, and its international debut in the 1994 Singapore
Festival of the Arts.
The
Tales From Mindanao
saga and its performances to world
audiences continue. These tales of love, death, life, and our
peoples’ close affinity to earth, wind, fire and water produce
engrossing theater. Through performance after performance, the
production makes more exciting Philippine culture that comes to life
on stage. In dance, music, the visual arts, and drama, the
compelling saga of our people unfolds in the most exciting
way.
In IPAG's third and fourth extensive tours
of Europe, it brought its brand of dance-theater to over 40 cities
in the festivals in Blain, Bussang, Corcieux, Contrexeville, St.
Maurice, Erstein, Besancon, the Vosges and Alsace regions (France),
and in Orenze and the Galician cities in Spain and
Portugal. IPAG has performed its dance-music and theater productions o over 80 cities worldwide.
[In 1997, IPAG presented over 40
performances in a hectic 40-day schedule covering the West to the
East of France in Angers, Haguenau, Riec, Bannalec, Brech,
Remiremont, and St. Denis de Joubet. In 1996, IPAG performed in
similarly well-acclaimed performances in the Netherlands, Austria,
the UK, and Paris.]
Its participation was coordinated
mainly by the Association Culturelle d'Echanges Internationaux with
the Philippine Embassy.
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