Category: Researcher

Papers, presentations, etc.

Registration for the ADSA Conference 2020: Acts of Gathering

Layeta P. Bucoy and I will be presenting the performance-lecture MonoVlog, an Emergen(t)cy Digital Performance.

My long-time friends and colleagues, and a former student will be presenting their papers too:

Sir Anril P. Tiatco’s Performance, Devotion, Gender: Figuring the Peñafrancia in the Bicol Region, Philippines.

Bryan L. Viray’s The Bati as movement of sacred gathering in Salubong.

Ian Ramirez’s Remembering the Utopian Performativity in Today x Future in Manila.

UP Diliman’s CAL-DSCTA’s international partners will be presenting their work too:

Jonathan Bollen’s ‘Glittering in the dark’: audience appeal and the design of attraction at the Stardust, Las Vegas, 1959.

Felipe Cervera, Theron Schmidt, Hannah Schwadron’s Planetary performance pedagogies in (and hopefully after) the pandemic.

Registration is FREE. Click here.

Dr. Diego S. Maranan’s “I Sing the Body Electric: Technologies of and for the Body”

Just attended our MA (Theatre Arts) Program’s ArtisTalk 2020 featuring Dr. Diego S. Maranan’s “I Sing the Body Electric: Technologies of and for the Body”.

Got additional ideas for my module next sem for my performance classes and for my current research and creative work. Arts x Science talaga ang way! Lezzggooo!

Palaban din ang MA program sa resource persons ah!! Congrats to our conveners Asst. Prof. Bryan L. Viray and Prof. Josefina F. Estrella.

P. S. Nakaw na kuha at siyempre obvious naman sino ang photographer. Bwahahaha!

APAF Ecosystem

APAF PH with Landi on the Side Mafia 2012-2020

Kulang pa kami. Marami ring nag-APAF na kasing landi namin.

From 2012 to 2019, PH artists were flown to Japan to collaborate with ASEAN artists in APAF events through the generous support of the Japan Foundation Manila. Swerte to have created performances and engaged with communities in the heart of Ikebukuro, and with the view of Mt. Fuji when we were in Shizuoka. Great times.

To continue this project of international collaboration, UP Diliman partnered with the Japan Foundation Manila to create the 2019 international conference, “Rhetoric of Creative Partnership: Conversations on Cross-cultural Artistic Exchanges” which featured presentations and performances of artists from APAF 2018 and 2019.

This year, JFM has given us another platform to continue the work that we have started in Japan to share our reflections on the work, and new approaches to theatre and performance in the time of global health crisis. We are excited to welcome Komunidad X who will be our guide in this platform as the official partner of JFM in the Philippines.

Double swerte because my paper for IFTR conference 2021 in Ireland is about international collaboration specifically discussing APAF collaboration. Ang galing ng ecosystem ano? Sanga-sanga lang. Pag nanghingi ka ng data, may magbibigay na generous na mga tao.

Hindi lahat ay may option na maghintay ng vaccine para mabuhay sa disiplina natin. This is the work so werk werk werk together tayo.

𝗘-𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻(𝘁)𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

For the first time in the history of UP Diliman, the university is implementing remote learning. Faculty members have been working tirelessly to prepare course packs for students with or without access to the internet. Preparing course packs is a challenge for both faculty and student because of the limited resources (e.g. gadget, internet connection). The College of Arts and Letters’ BAHAGINAN through the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA) and the UPD Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (UPD-OICA) is responding to this call through brown bag sessions entitled 𝗘-𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻(𝘁)𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 from 9 October to 25 November. The sessions will focus on possibilities and problems of theatre and performance in the time of the pandemic with the following themes:

• new and emergent performance forms (multi-media/digital performance, online festival);

• the state of artist welfare during the global health crisis; • urgent and emerging roles in performance-making (actors as dramaturgs, playwrights as online content-makers, stage/production managers as OBS software managers);

• digital modalities of learning and teaching theatre and performance.

Speakers include: Mara Agleham, Soc Amon, JK Anicoche, Layeta P. Bucoy, Pia Ysobel Cruz, Joyce Sahagun Garcia, Camilo P. De Guzman, Robert Arlo De Guzman, Eric V. Dela Cruz, Karlo Erfe, Neomi Gonzales, J-mee Katanyag, Maria Stella Rossa M. Lopez, Guelan Luarca, Juan Ysmael C. Mendoza, Olivia Kristine D. Nieto, John Carlo V. Pagunaling, Maria Kristine Chynna Roxas, and Nikki Garde-Torres

Links to sessions via the UPD CAL’s official YouTube page:

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿

𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗟𝗙

𝗘-𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗼

Co-creating Infrastructures of Care and Support

Collaborative Process and Migration to the Digital Platform: Mongoloida’s Casa De Pun

Stage Manager: From Practicing to Pro

Touring Productions Overseas (Himala) and Locally (Zsazsa Zaturnnah)

VLF PLAYWRIGHTS FAIR: MonoVlog

MONOVLOG, my little project with Layeta Pinzon Bucoy that started on the first week of the Metro Manila lockdown, will be at the VLF Playwright’s Fair tomorrow. We’ll discuss the collaborative process with Lallie on monovlog-making in the time of pandemic.


Thank you, VLF for holding space for us to figure out what we are really doing (bwahahahhahaa!). Mabuhay to our collab team from Tanghalang Pilipino, Sining Banwa in Bikol, and Monovlog-Icebag in Los Baños and in Zamboanga! “Welcome back to our channel!!”