Man@ng is Deity
LIVE DANCE PERFORMANCE AND FILM PREMIERE EVENT
December 3-5, 2021
ODC Theater: 3153 17th St, San Francisco 94110
KULARTS presents live dance performance and film premiere of Man@ng is Deity by SF Legacy Artist Awardee and DanceUSA Fellow Alleluia Panis with original music by Joshua Icban and cinematography by Wilfred Galila.
Man@ng is Deity pays tribute to the lives of the 'manong' generation—the first wave of cheap imported Pilipinx laborers who powered the ever expanding needs of the developing United States empire. Inspired by real-life accounts of Pilipinx Americans between the 1910-1940s, this performance and film draws from public and personal narratives of their 8,000-mile immigration journey to America.
SHOWTIMES
Friday, December 3 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 4 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, December 5 at 2:30 PM
ODC Theater
3153 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Check out the live stage recording of Man@ng is Deity, available for stream through February 28, 2022.
MAN@NG IS DEITY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Man@ng is Deity original music by Joshua Icban available for stream and download.
POST PERFORMANCE PANEL
Art Making
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
Moderator:
Olivia Malabuyo Tablante, Gerbode Foundation
Panelists:
Alleluia Panis, Director and Choreographer
Wilfred Galila, Cinematographer & Editor
Sound for Stage & Film
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
Moderator:
Giovanni Ortega, Pomona College
Panelists:
Joshua Icban, Musician & Composer
Bryan Pangilinan, Composer of Larry, the Musical
Arts & Community Organizing
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
Moderator:
Lucy San Pablo Burns, PhD, UCLA
Panelists:
Terry Valen, Filipino Community Center (FCC)
Joel B. Tan, Author & Cultural Activist
“Man@ng is Deity is a beautifully rendered experience that had me in tears by the very end. It runs the gamut of emotional experiences and history of the time of the manongs - helping us experience a history that many didn’t know existed.”
Dance Artist
jose e. abad, Ladislao ‘June’ Arellano, Jonathan M. Mercado, Johnny Huy Nguyen, Kao Sebastian Saephanh, Frances Sedayao, Hien Huynh, Stephanie Herrera, Sydney Loyola
Vocalists
Aimee Amparo, Mario ‘Nomi’ de Mira, Joey Maliga
Costume Design
Ladislao ‘June’ Arellano
Writers
Jaime Jacinto, Joel B. Tan
Film Cast
Malia Byrne, Andrea ‘Poko’ Devis, Joshua Icban, Cristino N. Lagahid, Wayde McCloud, Isa Musni, Kawayan Perlarose Bolick Ong, Giovanni Ortega, Marcella Pabros-Clark, Earl Alfred Paus, Helen Serafino-Agar, Kadean Serafino-Agar, Alley Wilde, Lydia Querian, Micaela Tandinco, Wayde McCloud, Jazlynn Pastor, Andrew Eisenman, Melvign Badiola, Aureen Almario, MJ Austria, Bahala Na Martial Arts: David Arquilada, Perry Farrens, Master Joel Juanitas, Leo Juanitas, Lorenzo Romano • Little Manila Rising: Danica Foronda, Jan Luce, Kiara Maque • Stockton Multi-Style Escrima: Anthony Bagalayos, Greg Balubar, Gene Inis, Terry Joven, Ramil Joven, Maestro Dexter Labonog, Edward Talisayan
CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM
Alleluia Panis
DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER
Alleluia Panis, Artistic & Executive Director, is the driving force behind Kularts and respected elder artist in the US and the Philippines. One of the founding members of Kularts, Panis has served as the Director since 1985. She has created 20 full-length dance theater works since 1985. She received awards for her choreography from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, SF Arts Commision, California Arts Council, New Langton Arts, and Creative Work Fund. She was a board member of Brava! For Women in the Arts, Bay Area Dance Coalition, artist’s committee member of National Performance Network, and juror for Ethnic Dance Festival. She received the Dancers Group’s Dancers Choice Award in 2009. She was a 2010 fellow at the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute & at Rockwood Leadership Institute in 2012. She was awarded the prestigious 2017 SFAC Artist Legacy, 2019-20 Gerbode Special Artist Award, 2019-2020 Dance USA Artist Fellow, and 2020 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission.
Joshua Icban
ORIGINAL MUSIC, LYRICS, & SOUND DESIGN
Joshua Icban is a working musician from Vallejo, CA. As a professional guitarist, he has played with Bay Area Grammy award winner Fantastic Negrito, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and hip-hop collective Grand Nationxl. As a composer and sound designer, he has worked with KULARTS, Cellista, Awesome Orchestra and Bindlestiff Studios. His original work utilizes multigenerational sounds and techniques to compose living reactions to the inherited world. Josh's work has been featured in spaces such as the Asian Art Museum and CounterPulse. In 2018, he completed his MA in Ethnomusicology from Cal State East Bay, chronicling the immigration timeline of Filipinos to the United States and the many experiences and impacts on the development of music and culture in California.
Recently he completed the original music score for ‘In the Belly of the Eagle: Man@ng Is Deity’.
Wilfred Galila
CINEMATOGRAPHER & EDITOR
Wilfred Galila is a San Francisco Bay Area based multimedia artist. His films were screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and his art installations were exhibited at several venues in San Francisco. He is a nominee for the 2018 Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design for the KULARTS production, Incarcerated 6×9. He collaborated with dance artist and choreographer Alleluia Panis on the multimedia dance theater productions She, Who Can See (2015) and Incarcerated 6x9 (2018), as well as the dance film She, Who Can See (2017), official selection at CAAMFest 2018. Their most recent collaboration is the dance film album Man@ng is Deity.
Ladislao ‘June’ Arellano
COSTUME DESIGNER
DANCE ARTIST • VALENTINO ‘BALENG’ PABLO
Ladislao ‘June’ Arellano was born in Bataan, Philippines. Inspired by street dancing, television, and performances by the Bayanihan Dance Company. He trained at the Philippine Women’s University and New York’s Broadway Dance School. He is a lead dancer in Parangal Dance Company since 2008 and performs in all of Parangal’s major performances, including at the 6th Annual Las Vegas World Folk Dance Competition (2009), and at the SF Ethnic Dance Festival. He was a dancer for ODC Sandbox Dance Series and performed in Sydney Loyola’s Tagabanua (2012), Palau’an Bird Call-Huni Ng Tandikan (2012), Maseg: Typhoon (2014) & film Sayaw directed by Cecilio Asuncion.
Grisel Torres
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Grisel Torres / gg (they/she) is a lighting and sound designer, dj, energy and body work practitioner based in Ohlone Chochenyo Territory. They studied Light Design, Stage Management, and Props Design at SFSU’s School of Theatre and Dance and has been a staff lighting designer, carpenter, production manager and venue manager for various theatre companies in the SF Bay Area since 2013. gg is currently a freelance lighting and props designer for live and filmed movement-based works. She has established her own style of empathetic-intuitive-adaptive improvisational lighting scores. They see the stage as an altar and light design as a guiding ritual towards catharsis. As an artist and healer, the intention is to open and safely close portals for whole healing and a chance to dance with ancestral relatives. This practice of art ritual healing is also found in gg’s sound and energy work explorations. Enjoy the show!
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