Kapitbahay / Three Dresses

They [a singularity] •

Do you know how much it takes to kill a man?

They [a singularity] is a short work which was created in 2019 and presented at the Hong Kong International Choreography Festival. It started as a study on skirts that explores how fabric rests on bodies and how identities are inscribed through textile. It then transformed into a choreographic ritual of coming out which follows the tripartite structure of the rites of passage: separation, liminality, and incorporation.

Jared Jonathan Luna

Jared Jonathan Luna (he/ they/ siya) is a dance artist working across performance, choreography, and dramaturgy. They have a BA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman and an MA in Dance Anthropology and Ethnochoreology. Their individual practice is interested in vernacular movement systems in urban spaces. In doing so, they toy around with diverse movement vocabularies from streetdance and contemporary dance. Their most recent set of projects ‘Tik Tok Ethnochoreology’ studies the 'production of dancing' in social media.

Jared has performed in solo and collaborative works in local and international platforms. Recent engagements include the SEA Choreolab Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia and the Performing Arts Research Residency at the Esplanade in Singapore and Dealing in Distance Philippine Edition.

At the present, Jared is an assistant professor for performing arts at Guang Ming College. They are also a part of the ballroom community in the Philippines, as the father of the Kiki House of Dirty.

LF Intimacy

LF Intimacy is an addition to a string of performances Lee has been building to constitute their body of work that inquires themes of becoming, being, and re-centering.

It is a devised performance which explores intimacy in juxtaposition to lust. It aims to answer the following: (a) How does one blossom their intimacy? (b) Does intimacy compel for another body, or is there intimacy to be explored from within?

Through lip-syncing, movement, and voice, the trans feminine non-binary artist affirms their yearning for connection and allows space for liminality. For them, intimacy becomes a process rather than an event— something that they transition and change with through presence and trust.

Lee Lim 

Lee (they/them) is a theatre and performance artist-scholar based in Metro Manila and Baguio City. They are currently a dance scholar of Daloy Dance Company where they extend their practice of movement and physical theatre through contemporary dance training and somatic improvisation. As a queer artist, they use performance-making theories to navigate the complexities of queer experiences in the contemporary. They are on a continuous journey of self-discovery through performance in hopes of finding affirmation and solace in their own identity.

Croquis

Croquis is a durational performance that explores the idea of a “croquis”—a quick, expressive sketch of a garment, often the first step towards bringing an idea into tangible reality. Within the context of this work, the pencil is the body and the paper a modular canvas—dissecting the desire to imprint and archive oneself into physical space.

This solo pulls inspiration from Ralph Escamillan’s personal memories, his ongoing fascination with codes of fashion, and his appreciation for the act of crafting and constructing objects and materials by hand.

Central to this work is a garment constructed entirely out of paper. The physicality of this solo is entirely reactionary to this garment, inspired by the silhouette of the historic ball gown skirt, the duality of which has been synonymous with ideas of celebration, femininity and pomp, while also representing a type of confinement and mourning.

Ralph Escamillan

Ralph Escamillan is an award winning queer, Canadian-Filipinx performance artist, teacher and community leader based on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh,Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations - on so called Vancouver, BC.

As the artistic director of FakeKnot, he develops collaborative performance works that have been presented both nationally and internationally - with a current focus on textile and clothing as choreographic narrative. Drawing from Ralph’s multiplicity of dance cultures and his identity as a second-generation Philippine-Canadian, his work hopes to remember the bridges woven between cultures and communities, while also knotting new ones with care. The exploration of how culture is created through the accumulation of ideas and concepts is at the center of his work. He has found the body to be a powerful vessel through which these ideas can be investigated, embodied and proliferated.