Author: Olive (Uleb) Nieto

performance maker and teacher from the Philippines.

TALK EXCHANGE 2: On Performance and Artist Development Platform in Japan: Asian Performing Arts Farm (APAF) and Filipino artists participation

From the Komunidad X website:

The Asian Performing Arts Farm has provided platform for development of next generation artists in the region. Filipino artists have been selected to join its laboratory, exhibition and festival platforms for the past few years creating opportunities for international collaboration and co-creation. Join us as we premiere performances co-created in Japan by Filipino directors with an international team of collaborators via kXchange.Engage in our Talk Exchange via Zoom this Saturday Dec 5, 2020 to get to know about the artistic processes and challenges of intercultural collaborations and what discoveries and opportunities arise in these platforms.

This is Part 2 of 3 of the UTSUROI Live Archives Talk Exchange program. We will have Japanese translations and talk will mostly be in English (with provision for live captioning).

TALK EXCHANGE 2: On Performance and Artist Development Platform in Japan: Asian Performing Arts Farm (APAF) and Filipino artists participation.

Dec 5, 2020 (Saturday)14:00 Philippine Standard Time. Live on Zoom(The program will run for 2.5 hours)Registration is Free: bit.ly/utsuroievent2 (or scan the QR on the poster).

GUESTS: TADA Junnosuke (pre-recorded Interview video), Tuxqs Rutaquio, Issa Manalo, Lopez, James Harvey Estrada, Jared Jonathan Luna, Abner Delina

Moderated by: Olive Nieto

Asian Performing Arts Farm (APAF) is a development initiative under the Tokyo Festival that offers opportunities for artists in Asia to elevate their creative practice through mutual exchange, and expand their presence beyond national and cultural boundaries. The initiative was launched in 2002 as the Asian Performing Arts Festival with a view to promoting culture through artistic exchange between Asian regions. In 2016, it changed its name to “Asian Performing Arts Forum,” serving as a venue that brings young artists together. In 2018, Junnosuke Tada assumed the role of Director, taking over from former-Producer Satoshi Miyagi, who led the program for ten years. In 2019, APAF underwent a major remodeling, changing “forum” to “farm,” with the aim of providing “rich soil” for the next generation of artists to grow in an increasingly globalized age. The new logo, redesigned for 2020, adopts a free and flowing design.

PETA Roundtable Discussions on Creating Original Work

Ang masaya sa PETA people ay kung gaano sila ka-fun sa work at sa rooftop cast party ay ganon din sila sa roundtable discussion. Grabeng humility to assess yourself as individuals and as a company. Sulong sa experimentation!

Ito yung pa-activity namin ni Norbs Portales. Yung una kung ano nami-miss nila sa teatro at yung pangalawa ay kung may time capsule kaming ibabaon sa parking lot ng PETA, anong ilalagay nilang advice/tip/question para sa future generations ng PETA artist-teachers na maghuhukay nito.

Maraming salamat sa pag-imbita sa akin dito, Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)!

Pwedeng panuorin ulit dito: https://fb.watch/28GZf8pz1J/

ADSA 2020: MonoVlog 14

MonoVlog 14 (in performance-lecture-MonoVlog format) premiere at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference 2020: Acts of Gathering.

Grateful for the wonderful insights from all our participants, moderator Bryoni Trezise, and co-panelist Alex Talamo.

Jonathan Bollen and the ADSA committee, thank you for your work and for answering all my questions re. ADSA since March.

Forever grateful to Layeta Pinzon Bucoy for being so patient with our process (no internet, no camera, no stagehands, no motivation, 5-10 hours of phone call every month, during the lockdown and pandemic, etc.).

Shoutout to our MonoVlog followers and our ka-MonoVlog (Sining Banwa, Tanghalang Pilipino, Icebag Online)! Mabuhay kayo!

P.S. Layeta was my CO-ACTOR in this MonoVlog. Hahahaha! Iba siya!

P.P.S. Paano ko nalimot sa post na ito ang dahilan kung bakit ko kinarir na aralin ito??! Salamat, Oscar Tantoco Serquiña! I love you forever, classmate!!!!

#RipplesWorld Salubong Rituals

21 November 2020

#ripplesworld

interculturalroots.org/ripples

Day 252 of Community Quarantine in the Philippines

Separated by glass, we are slowly reshaping our salubong rituals (staying up until midnight to welcome a new day).

New gestures are being born every day to say “I love you”.

At midnight, I offer you glass greeting cards. Yakap (embrace in Filipino)!

#RipplesWorld Sunset: Physical Distancing Relationships

7 November 2020

#ripplesworld

http://www.ripplesworld.com

interculturalroots.org/ripples

When I was 4, I would record myself singing and telling stories on cassette tapes and my mother would send them to our loved ones abroad. She said that those tapes would make our families happy.

When I got a job, I would save up money to visit my siblings and cousins, and their children abroad. This year, I saved up to experience 3 summers: one in Manila, one in California, and one in Melbourne. Unfortunately, those family reunions didn’t happen.

With the travel ban restrictions due to the pandemic, my siblings and cousins would just send me videos of my niblings. On weekends at 5:00 a.m., my niblings would call to play and chat with me online.

Time zones are making my body clock crazy but my niblings are adorable. I savor these moments when they still need me and think that I’m the cool aunt.

Sometimes I worry that they would forget me. Silly me. I still remember Tita Bengga and Uncle Cris, and every little gift they gave me. #ripplesworld

Elizabeth De Roza’s “Creating an Embodied Multi-dimensional Performance Platform”

Just attended Elizabeth De Roza’s “Creating an Embodied Multi-dimensional Performance Platform” via the UPD MA (Theatre Arts) Program’s ArtistTalk.

Thinking about future bodies, pixelated bodies, network-lag bodies, Schrödinger’s cat bodies (when you turn off your camera during Zoom; are you dead/alive?), disconnected bodies, reconnecting bodies, Zoom waiting room bodies, are-you-wearing-shorts-in-your-zoom-meeting bodies, machine-readable bodies, bodies and data, shake-body-body-dancer.

P.S. Next #ripplesworld is on 7 November. Join us!