Performance Ecologies

Cabalquinto is a pioneering butoh artist based in Manila, Philippines. She is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, actor and cultural worker who is pursuing the different possibilities of movement in the works of Japanese Butoh form through collaborative arts. Her dance aims to deepen the politics of the body toward personal and collective healing acknowledging the different cultural and sociopolitical identities.

Cadag is an artist creating at the nexus between craftwork, performance, and community work; within the tensions and transitions between theatre, as well as installation; and through the voice as a fundamental site of creative resistance and poetic reexistence. Her practice is anchored in indigenous gender diversity and contemporary gender equality and shared through a trans approach to healing and song alongside which she nurtures a decolonial composure toward folklore and tradition.

An interdisciplinary artist and storyteller from Mindanao who is inspired by local stories of ecology, community, and culture.

Alvin Collantes (He/They) is a Transfemme Filipinx and Canadian Immigrant performance artist based in Berlin, Germany. Their work bridges the disciplines of Gaga Movement Language, holistic bodywork, pleasure activism, queerness and the art of drag. Their artistic practice centres around topics of migration, emotional upheavals of assimilation and excavating pre-colonial queer identities to build post-colonial possibilites.

Jenny Logico-Cruz is a performance-maker, teacher, and cultural worker interested in challenging the process, boundaries, and expectations of performance, as well as exploring novel frameworks and methods of engaging with the audience while tackling significant contemporary issues that intersect the personal, social, cultural, and political. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Langgam Performance Troupe, a Manila-based contemporary performance company focusing on experimental, process-based, and practice-as-research works.

Magenta is a performance artist incorporating dance, painting, craft, and electronic music into his works. With a diverse range of influences such as experimental queer club culture and folklore, his loud, eclectic, and often biophilic expressions explore how mythology, supernatural phenomenons, and animism mirror the realities that we face.

Garcia’s artistic practice explores the body as both a vessel and site of resistance, using choreography to delve into the layered complexities of Filipino memory, identity, and history. Grounded in folk dance traditions and further shaped by his immersion in various traditional theatre forms across Asia, he interrogates the concept of "folk" as a dynamic, evolving practice, critiquing state violence and historical manipulation while confronting political trauma and reimagining collective identity, challenging cultural erasure and the manipulation of historical narratives.

Garcia’s artistic practice navigates the tension between the documented and the undocumented, tracing the fragile imprints of those who move unseen. Through performance, fieldwork, and visual documentation, he explores the disappearing, the overlooked, and the vulnerable, reflecting on the intersections of ecological fragility and human displacement.

Sales is an artist and researcher whose work revolves around food systems and geography. He has facilitated workshops internationally related to embodied mapping and performances to ground knowledge production in a collective manner.

Ea Torrado is a queer-identifying La Union-based contemporary choreographer, performing artist, and educator. She explores identity, society and culture, eroticism, spirituality, healing, and environmental care through various mediums such as dance theater, performance rituals, community gatherings, and experimental films. She performed solo and principal roles in productions by the Ballet Manila and Ballet Philippines, before forming her own group in 2014, the Daloy Dance Company. Her body of work has garnered awards such as the Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award, the Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography, and the Asian Cultural Council Grant.