Following a 3-day intensive on the Filipino context of Butoh through integrating various motivations and movement exercises centering on Kapwa (the shared self; the self in the other), workshop participants will co-present a public ritual gathering featuring Sasa Cabalquinto.

Tickets available at the door - doors at 6:30p, performance gathering at 7p
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About Sasa Cabalquinto:

Sasa Cabalquinto is a Filipina independent movement artist, Butoh dancer, choreographer, theater and film actress, and artist collaborator from Manila, Philippines. Her work in progress focuses on integrating Butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance theater into the context of a Filipino body through exploring the notions of Filipino indigenous wisdom and ritualistic practices. She is currently an artist fellow of Asian Cultural Council traveling to various cities across the US to research Butoh dance and diaspora. Sasa is a recipient of the Para Site NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour and Asia Arts and Culture Grant of Japan Foundation Manila for her work, Kapwa— Movement Project. An awardee of Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award 2020, CCP Choreographers’ Series WiFiBody.PH New Choreographers Competition 2018 3rd Prize winner, and PUP Outstanding Student Achievement Awardee in the Arts in Dance 2014, she is one of the first Butoh practitioners in the Philippines and the first Filipina to study Butoh in Japan. She represented her home country in the Asia Butoh Forum and Vienna Butoh Art Festival together with several Butoh artists from Asia. America and Europe.

www.sasacabalquintoph.wordpress.com

www.kapwamovement.com