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

TSH: Theatre Acting and “Going Viral” with Rain Matienzo

TAWID SA HARBOUR Podcast:

Theatre Acting and “Going Viral” with Rain Matienzo

TikTok’s “Conyo Girl” Rain Matienzo shares her experiences in theatre acting classes in college which are the foundations of her preparations for theatre and tv auditions. Rain also tells her stories of losing projects during the pandemic and betting on herself to create opportunities on social media.

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

Centering

TAWID SA HARBOUR IS BACK! Season 2 is here!

Season 2 is about CENTERING. I am collecting my scattered energies by rooting myself with the people who have been doing great work. I am highlighting my former thesis advisees’ and students’ theses and creative works. I have also invited my closest friends to talk about their recent creative works and research on healing, visual arts, pageants, spoken word, etc.

Part 1: Rain Matienzo

Gian Viatka

Pat Berin

Ela Figura

Janna Cortes

Zheg Arban

ABANGAN!

Patikim muna… Here’s the link to the intro of TAWID SA HARBOUR Season 2: https://spoti.fi/3zTVIBx

(Long) Physical Distanc(e)ing Relationship in International Collaboration

We invited James Harvey Estrada, director of “Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken” (Japan) and co-director of “Cave” (South Korea), to talk about healing, rituals, and building relationships in international collaboration during the global health crisis.

Where to listen:

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3rNWkmO  

Apple:  http://bit.ly/3bJHKaj

Google: http://bit.ly/3leskht

Theatre in Drag, Drag in Theatre

We invited MC BLCK to talk about theatre in drag and drag in theatre.

MC BLCK / Lyg Carillo is a Theatre and Drag Artist doing arts advocacy work for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Sharing the art of drag in the theatre world, s/he has worked, collaborated, and performed with several artists here in the Philippines and abroad.

Currently, s/he is pioneering the First Drag Academy PH (2021), an arts program designed for Aspiring Drag Artist of all genders.

Where to watch:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/-7-0CmZnJqE

Where to listen:

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3qFZKXn

Apple: http://apple.co/3clvWKq

Google: http://bit.ly/38v8Xv9