Tag: PerformanceAndPandemic

3-in-1 Body Problem – PSi BRAZIL

I will be performing at the Performance Studies International PSi#30 XXX – CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS, Fortaleza, Brazil!

3-in-1 Body Problem: El Traje dela Cuerpo Conquistada (for synopses of the trilogy) a.k.a. Olive as the Embodied Junction of Belongingness and Shifting Practices is a performance-installation tracing a performer’s navigation of theatre’s rupture during the pandemic. Panchang appears first in a series of improvised tableaux—unfinished costumes, found objects, and an anywhere-stage revealing the scramble for new forms. Maria Clara follows, fragmented and reclaimed inside a digital frame that exposes the seams of her colonial construction. Finally, Olive becomes the MonoVlogger-Madam Tseter, confronting the ephemerality of digital performance as platforms erase their own archives. Across these shifting bodies and screens, the trilogy argues for theatrical transformation, creative labor, and embodied survival in crisis.

a.k.a.

Just a Homeless MonoVlogger performing “live” livestreaming in Instituto de Cultura e Arte. Muita merda (“lots of shit,” Portuguese break a leg hahaha)!

Performance flow (15 minutes running time):

My performer’s body’s journey since the 2020 pandemic: theatre is “dead” > MonoVlog via Facebook Live > MonoVlog via Zoom > MonoVlog via Kumu Livestreaming app > MonoVlog via podcast > MonoVlog in PSi Hunger 2022 online > Trilogy of digital performances and MonoVlog under the University of the Philippines ECWRG grant > theatre is “back” (to what) > MonoVlog in PSi#30 XXX – CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS, Fortaleza, Brazil.

  1. MonoVlog – Read the synopses of the trilogy of digital performances here.
  2. Video with in-person performance – Self-reflexive account of my creative process as performer-dramaturg-and-all-the-roles-in-theatre by focusing on the aesthetics of flaw in El Cuerpo, and the microscopic-fragmented bodies in Fantasma
  3. MonoVlog – now that theatre is “back” (to what?!), what happens to the performer’s body? Is in-person MonoVlogging the way to go?

3-in-1 Body Problem in Variations

The Magdalena Project Feature: The Performer’s Body Since the Pandemic

The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2024 Manila performance-lecture:

Learn more about the MonoVlog

MonoVlog portfolio

Serquiña, Oscar T. 2023. “Emotional Weather Reports: Online Performance as Affective Practice in the MonoVlogs of Layeta Bucoy and Olivia Kristine Nieto.” Performance Research 28 (5): 14–22. doi:10.1080/13528165.2023.2321056.

Performing the Personal with Ela Figura

Ela Figura takes us on her creative journey in devising her performance, “Still Awesome,” using personal narratives and “traumaturgy,” and taking inspiration from Layeta Bucoy and Olive Nieto’s MonoVlog and Bo Burham’s online performances.

In this episode, we raise the ethical aspects of research on performing traumatic memory and discuss how to establish a safe space in creating a performance.

Listen here: https://spoti.fi/3qulESS

The Collaborative Actors Prepare

In this 2-part episode, Zheg Arban and Janna Cortes share their collaborative preparations as student actors for performances before and during the pandemic. We delve deeper into how collaboration in acting activates a safe space to make your co-actors and alternates an enabling presence to your growth on the stage and in life. They provide tips on how to make your acting journals your best friend.

“The Collaborative Actors Prepare Part 1: Collaborative Acting in UP Playwrights’ Theatre’s Nana Rosa” includes a glimpse of my training for student actors as “emotional athletes” through embodied dramaturgy.

In “The Collaborative Actors Prepare Part 2: Actors as Collaborators,” Zheg and Janna reveal how they bring the collaborative acting process into their respective Dulaang Laboratoryo thesis productions and creative works.

Part 1: https://spoti.fi/3MtSLz2

Part 2: https://spoti.fi/42YHXOL