PoMo in the Bay Area

Here's a show you won't want to miss. For the price of one ticket, you will see three of the four Pilipino groups that do more than cultural and hip hop dances.

This consortium of Teatro ng Tanan/TnT, Kulintang Arts, Tongue in a Mood and Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians--we call it PoMo--got together to commemorate the centennial and celebrate the survival of our people. I hope you will support us and come see our show. There will be a reception after the Saturday night show.

Who: Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Project
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Forum
701 Mission Street (at 3rd Street), San Francisco
When: Aug 15 & 16, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m.
Tickets/Info: $12 in advance/$15 at door/ Reservations 415/978-2787

FOR GROUP SALES: Groups of 10 or more = $10.00 per ticket. Applies for advance sales only.Absolutely No Last Minute Group Sales (meaning at the door).

Call the following people and give us your name, date of the performance, and the number of people attending. The name of the person on the envelope MUST be the one who will pay at the door. That is the only person who can pick up the tickets. Sorry, strict policy.

Wilma Consul 415-468-5387
Allan Manalo 415-431-8842
Allelluia Panis 415-333-9004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kulintang Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts present Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Project

From tribal to contemporary, serious to hilarious, Teatro ng Tanan, the Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre, comedy-theater group Tongue in a Mood and special guest artists bring you a multi-generational accounting of the contemporary American Pilipino experience as they explore the myriad implications of the Centennial anniversary of the Pilipino American War, Spainís historic sale of the Philippines to the US and the personal stories of being American Pilipino one hundred years later.

Teatro Ng Tanan performs I love/hate America: the choice is yours.Through dance and movement from the roots and the rituals, through spoken history and grooving poetry, Teatro Ng Tananís new breed of artists define their laborious and sometimes wild surf as Pilipinas-Pilipinos@ca.usa.98. I love/hate America: the choice is yours is written by TnT artists and directed by TnT Artistic Director Wilma Consul.

Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre performs Gabriela. From Bruce Lee to the local police, from boxing to blade techniques to jungle warfare, the warrior arts of the Pilipino people have greatly influenced the modern world. The Pilipino fighting arts techniques were developed as survival mechanisms to be practiced by both men and women. Gabriela is performed by dancers Anna Sun Foo, Denise Ikeda, Alleluia Panis, Jennifer Minore, Jody Pettle, Kali Maya and the Women of the Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola School of Kamatuurun Kali, to live music by Bay Area musicians John Calloway, Dana Nunez and Francis Wong. The dance work honors the woman warrior embodied in the historical figure of Gabriela Silang. The work integrates the simplicity of ritualistic gestures and the vigorous physicality of warrior arts and dance, into a compelling celebration of resistance and the power of the human spirit.

Project Concept, Direction & Choreography by Alleluia Panis; Composition, Dana Nunez; Fighting Arts Collaborator, Lawrence Motta; Soundscore, Kevin McKereghan; Visual Design, Jose Maria Francos.

Tongue in a Mood performs Xxxx. Tongue in a Mood takes an irreverent, hilarious and thought provoking poke at Pilipino or ëFlipî culture through a series of theatrical sketches exploring American Pilipino baggage and idiosyncrasies. Using sharp satire Tongue in a Mood probes the disturbing psychological residue left by colonialis in three centuries in a Spanish convent followed by 50 years in Hollywood. Xxxx is directed by Allan Manalo, and written and performed by Allan Manalo, Patty Cachapero and Kevin Camia.

Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Project is a consortium of the Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre, Kulintang Arts, Pearl Ubungen Dancers & Musicians, Teatro Ng Tanan and Tongue in a Mood, who have come together to create and to promote the presence and understanding of post-modern performing arts forms practiced by the American Pilipino arts community.

This project is funded by generous support from San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for The Arts.

Biographies

As both a community organization and a theater company, Teatro ng Tanan (TnT) has been working in the Bay Area for over 8 years to promote a broad cross-cultural understanding of theater arts, its Philippine cultural roots and contributions to the cultural diversity in the United States. The company has produced 13 major productions and 136 outreach performances, and brings productions to free and low cost community events and festivals, workshops, readings, as well as other activities to low income Pilipino World War II veterans living in the downtown San Francisco area. Their progam BITWA (Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop) teaches basic theater skills to youth, college students and cultural workers.

Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre Artistic Director Alleluia Panis brings an Asian Pacific aesthetic of dance and theater into the vital energies of contemporary times. She re-contextualizes dances, myths and rituals from far-away islands into visually compelling dances, infused with a sensuous delicacy and athleticism, that combine tribal arts, modern dance and text, and are performed to original scores by world music composers. Alleluia Panisí work has been presented at major venues including Dance Theatre Workshop-NY, Kennedy Center-WA, DC, International Dance Congress-San Francisco, University of Colorado-Boulder, and at major international festivals including Asian Performing Arts Festival-Singapore, International Zelt Musik Festival-Germany, Baguio Arts Festival-Philippines and Verona Festival-Italy, among others.

Tongue in a Mood Theatre was established in 1992 by Filipino American comedians Allan Manalo, Kennedy Kabasares, Ron Muriera and Rex Navarette for the purpose of infiltrating the many commercialized ìFilipino Fiestasî with satirical sketch comedy and to form a writing group for a television project. The group disbanded in 1993, and was re-established in 1996 by Manalo, who brought in performers Patty Cachapero and Kevin Camia. Since then, they have performed for audiences at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Santa Clara University and Tito Reyís Restaurant in Daly City, CA. In September 1997, they presented TSISMIS (chiz mizî), their theatrical debut at the Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco. This show broke all box office records. Their follow up show, MERRY TSISMIS sold out before the run began. They produced Tuesday night series at the Yugen/Noh Space called THE KALAT SHOW. In June, 1998, they presented their new show BOMBA at the Bindlestiff Studio.

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