Dance Forums brings back Itim Asu on Women’s Month

In line with the celebration of Women’s Month this March, the Dance Forum brings back “Itim Asu 1719-2009,” a contemporary dance based on Virginia Moreno’s play entitled "The Onyx Wolf / Itim Asu”. It was choreographed by Myra Beltran and it will be available for show buyers who wanted to stage the show in their respective venues and organizations.

According to Beltran, the dance show is ideal for women organizations and school who wanted to present this work for learning and fund raising purposes. Beltran’s choreography deconstructs and reinterprets this important work in a contemporary language. It creates fusion of historical heritage and women’s issues.

"The story of ‘Itim Asu’ is a play within a play, and contains the story of La Loba Negra, the Mexican wife of Spanish Gov. General Bustamante, one of the more ‘exceptional’ governor generals in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era, and how she avenges his death,” Beltran added.

According to Beltran, the production only uses contemporary dance, video and sound design, and no speaking dialogues. Though their ways or presenting political and women issue’s she believed that they can translate history and its drama in every steps and movement that they will execute.

Presented by Myra Beltran's Dance Forum, “Itim Asu 1719-2009” features the work of filmmaker Sherad Anthony Sanchez, known for his internationally acclaimed "Huling Balyan ng Buhi.” His “Imburnal” won the Woosuk Best Film Award at the 10th Jeonju International Film Festival 2009, South Korea.

Sound designer Teresa Barrozo is responsible for the score of Brillante Mendoza’s award-winning movie “Kinatay.” Virginia Moreno was dubbed “The Empress Dowager of Philippine Poetry” by the late National Artist Jose Garcia Villa.

Beltran is the trailblazer for independent contemporary dance in the Philippines and her group, Myra Beltran’s Dance Forum, led the way in using alternative performing spaces for dance. She is founding director of the Wifibody Independent Contemporary Dance Festival and the Contemporary Dance Map Series.

Her dedication has pushed her initially solitary efforts into more than twenty years’ body of work and her dance studio, Dance Forum Space, has become an alternative performance venue that pushes experimental choreography and committed dance artists into new terrain in Philippine contemporary dance. Beltran has choreographed for local mainstream dance and theatre groups and has also collaborated with numerous artists of various disciplines in Beijing, Taipei, and US.

Add “Itim Asu:1719-2009” in Facebook. Interested showbuyers, organizations or schools may email danceforum.mb@gmail.com or call 0917-526-9724.

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Anne Hathaway from Princess Mia to Catwoman

The Princess Diaries and Love and Other Drugs’ Anne Hathaway is now the new Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises is a Batman movie that stars Christian Bale who will be playing Bruce Wayne/Batman.

(Anne Hathaway picture from Love and Other Drugs)

The said confirmation was announced by Warner Bros. Pictures today (January 19, US Time) in Burbank California. According to Nolan, director of the film he is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Hathaway, who will be a fantastic addition to the story.

Anne Hathaway is the third actress who will be doing the Catwoman role, first was Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992’s Batman Returns and Halle Berry in the 2004 Catwoman film. Hathaway gains her popularity after taking the role of Pricess Mia in Walt Disney’s The Princess Diaries and later takes daring role as Lureen Newsome Twist in Brokeback Mountain, Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada and her latest as Maggie Murdock in Love and Other Drugs.

The Dark Knight Rises is slated for release beginning July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.


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Repertory Philippines Presents “The Joy Luck Club”

In celebration of the Chinese New Year this February, Repertory Philippines brings the 1989 best-selling novel of Amy Tan entitled The Joy Luck Club to the Onstage Theater, 2nd floor, Greenbelt 1 Mall,Makati City. The play will run from February 4-20, 2011.

The play follows the struggle of four Chinese women who migrated in US who usually meet for a mahjong game and named their group the Joy Luck Club. Each mother has American-born daughters which has a growing generation and cultural gap between them. We will discover the funny and touching side of each mother on how they build relationship with their daughters.

The powerhouse cast includes:


Mothers:

Suyuan Woo (Rebecca Chuaunsu)
Haunted by the memory of her twin baby daughters that she left behind in China when she escaped the invading Japanese forces during World War II.

An-Mei Hsu (Pinky Marquez)
An-Mei’s own mother committed suicide to give her a better life. When An-Mei immigrates to America and starts a family of her own, one of her sons drowns and dies.

Lindo Jong (Frances Makil)
Cleverly escaped from an arranged marriage in China when she was only a teenager.

Ying-Ying "Betty" St. Clair (Jay Glorioso)
Ying-Ying has become a passive woman from repressing her own true self and suffering from an abusive marriage.

Daughters:


Jing-Mei "June" Woo (Ana Abad Santos)
Unable to understand her mother while growing up, Jing-Mei finally makes peace with her relationship to her mother when she discovers the personal hardships that her mother endured.

Rose Hsu Jordan (Jenny Jamora)
Rose is fast becoming a victim to a lopsided divorce proceeding until her mother makes her realize that she should claim what is rightfully hers.

Waverly Jong (Cris Villonco)
Independent and intelligent, Waverly is trapped by the fear of disappointing her mother. The pair reach a breakthrough just as Waverly is about to marry.

Lena St. Clair (Lily Chu)
Lena had become conditioned to be a passive person from her own mother’s passivity. With help from her mother, she eventually learns to take a stand.

Repertory Philippines presentation of The Joy Luck Club was directed by Anton Juan, adapted by Susan Kim, costume design is by Eric Pineda with set design by Ohm David and lighting design by John Ilao Batalla.

After The Joy Luck Club, Repertory Philippines will be staging Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps, on March 4 to 20, and Shakespeare in Hollywood on April 1 to 7. 2011. For ticket inquiries and other information, call Repertory Philippines at 571-6926 and 571-4941 or email info@repertory-philippines.com. Tickets also available at Ticketworld at 891-9999 or www.ticketworld.com.ph.


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