Project Philippines 2012
In 2008 a team of 6 dancers took a trip to the Philippines. Met with great success I am excited to say we are returning again in 2012! With a desire to continue the excitement of this project, Project Philippines , hopes to return with even more information than ever.
In 2008 a team of 6 dancers took a trip to the Philippines. Met with great success I am excited to say we are returning again in 2012! With a desire to continue the excitement of this project, Project Philippines , hopes to return with even more information than ever.
Mission:
Project Philippines aims to expose the students of Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), Samar, and Bobon San Isisdro to contemporary dance and movement, as well as visual arts, through free accessible arts education. This involves interactive-dance classes, art classes, and improvisation as a means to self-expression
Highlighting the excitement between collaboration of American artists and Filipino artists, our group hopes to teach workshops and work with the PHSA as well as students in two schools in Samar. This cultural exchange and information we will provide an outlet for our artists to raise awareness of the performing arts of the Philippines upon returning to the United States.
We will travel to Manila where we will host a college workshop and performance. As the Project Philippines team we will teach a four hour workshop on different styles of movement such as the Taylor, Graham, Limon, Cunningham and Horton techniques which we were trained in at The Juilliard School. Then we will have a performance exchange where the participating colleges will give a performance as well as the Project Philippines Team. We will end this exchange will a discussion about arts in the Philippines and the United states.
Still in Manila we will travel to stay with the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) for two weeks. Here we will provide dance/visual arts education for PHSA students. The collaborative process includes participation in PHSA dance and visual arts classes. By providing the PHSA dance scholars with in-depth contemporary dance technique workshops, visual arts workshops, as well as a final performance given by our Project Philippines Team our hopes are to foster a collaborative end performance by the PHSA dance students. While working with the students, our team will also travel on the weekends to work with the Ballet Philippines, teaching modern and contemporary dance techniques.
After five long weeks our team will travel back to the states where we will hopefully keep this project and excitement going on next year. But we need your help!
About the 2008 Project
In 2008 Project Philippines brought six Juilliard dancers to a four-week residency in the Philippines, two-location tours specifically in Los Baños, Laguna and Catarman, Northern Samar with the goal to provide dance education. Beginning in Los Baños, Laguna we collaborated with the students of the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), a government-run secondary school dedicated to the development of artistic growth of the youth. Our collaborative process included participating in their art classes as well as providing them with in-depth contemporary dance technique workshops. These workshops lead to an informal studio showcase consisting of the new dance styles that the Project Philippine members and the PHSA students learned. By this experience, we gained mutual exchange of arts education and ideas that expanded our knowledge with these different scopes of art.
The following day, we departed from PHSA to fly to Catarman in Northern Samar where we became acquainted with the children residing there. For the remaining two weeks, our team provided a space for these young kids to understand movement as a means for self-expression, allowing them to take chances with their artistry and experiment with dance in ways they previously never had the opportunity to try. In doing so, we eagerly offer a variety of games and movement oriented activities to expose them to different ways of managing their day-to-day lives. We want to inspire these children to develop their own confidence and hopefully spark a sense of motivation within their hearts. Since seeing live performances is also rare to these young children, the Project Philippines team is excited and prepared to uplift them with our dances.
Our team made it a mission to reach out with our artistic abilities to these high school students and young children leaving a constructive imprint of our education to carry with them forever.
Our team made it a mission to reach out with our artistic abilities to these high school students and young children leaving a constructive imprint of our education to carry with them forever.
