ISRAEL: POWER OF THE YOUTH. SHARING PEACE, EDUCATION AND CULTURE THROUGH THE ARTS AND DIALOGUE IN ISRAEL

Time: 8am to 12pm

Location: Tabeetha School of Jaffa
21 Yefet Street,
Jaffa, Israel

*Click on Israel: Power of the Youth Experience

PLANTING SEEDS OF CULTURE, ART, UNITY AND HOPE.

In celebration of Philippine National Arts Month the Philippine Consulate General, New York and The Philippine Mission to the United Nations Presents:

“ALAY SA INYO” (OUR OFFERING TO YOU)
Featuring the Effie Nanas Dance Company of Manila, Philippines and "Akin, Amin, Atin" ("For Me, For Us, For Everyone")

Location: Kalayaan Hall, Philippine Center 556 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Date:Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 6:30pm

*Please view the Artists below and their collaborators in the Past, Present and Future Performers page.

MEET THE ARTISTS

LEONIDES D. ARPON IN COLLABORATION WITH RAYMUND ''RANN'' GOLAMCO. Born in Manila, a Pasig native, Mr. Golamco collaborated and helped produce some of the Philippines' finest artists; Hungry Young Poets, Jett Pangan Group, Mojofly, Eraserheads, Sandwich SQUID9, DRIP, Ladybugstingray, Lindsey Wilson, Kendra Samson Dance, Deep Foundation, Djkiva/ADIOSBABYLON STUDIOS, Brother Ah's World Ensemble.
Mr. Golamco is currently based in New York and is pursuing projects in the field of production, film, advertising and marketing.


JP MORAGA (AND GUESTS) born and raised in Meycuayan Bulacan, Philippines. Credits include: Aguinaldo: Mark Twain in Purgatory (NAATF), Miss Saigon (Drury Lane Oakbrook) My Scary Girl (Barrington Stage Co.), The King and I; Thouroughly Modern Millie; Anything Goes (CDT), Altar Boyz (FST), My Fair Lady (ATL, Cleveland Playhouse, & VSC). B.M. at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.









BENNYROYCE ROYON was born in the Philippines and started his professional dance training at age 16. In 2006, Bennyroyce received his BFA degree from the prestigious Juilliard School. He has freelanced with numerous companies in New York City such as the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Chamber Dance Project, Sidra Bell Dance NY, and Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance. Bennyroyce has toured the US, Canada, Europe, teaches ballet & contemporary classes and has presented his choreographic works in Seattle, New York City, Montréal, and at Jacob's Pillow. He currently dances with Armitage Gone! Dance and is the founder of Bennyroyce Productions, a project-based collaborative contemporary dance company.


KENDRA ISOBEL SAMSON began her formal dance training at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance School and subsequently further honed her artistry at the Philippine High School for the Arts. During her senior year at PHSA she had the amazing opportunity of competing in the 9th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 2004 she was accepted at The Juilliard School where she enjoyed performing works by Ohad Naharin, Lar Lubovitch, Anthony Tudor, Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall and more.

A LETTER FOR EVERYONE

Dear friends and family,

I would like to personally thank you all once again for your generous support and encouragement for the Akin, Amin, Atin performances last September. It was truly an amazing experience and I have learned a lot both on and off the stage as an artist and producer.
On the top right hand side of this page is a link to the performance's review by Jack Anderson (formerly of the New York Times). We are also featured in last months article of Global Philippines (Vol 1. Iss. 3).

I am now also one of the founders of [QuA²D] Queens Academy of Arts and Dance whose goals are to unite artists in dance and its derivatives in order to produce work that supports and engages both audiences and communities.
Alberto Denis, the director of [QuA²D] has been and continues to be an integral part of my growth as an artist. He has personally assisted me and many others accomplish their personal and artistic goals. I am committed to helping [QuA²D] continue these endeavors on a wider scale and while learning from this, simultaneously build and raise the awareness of Akin, Amin, Atin in non-Filipino communities.

We are currently working on MBCA Move for Breast Cancer Awareness performance benefit and wellness day in order to further educate, support and create awareness about breast cancer in the dance community. This event will ignite a sense of empowerment for dance artists who are at risk, have been diagnosed, or who have been affected by breast cancer.
Please take a moment to visit the [QuA²D] link below. Your support, advice, comments and suggestions are always appreciated.

[QuA²D] Move for Breast Cancer Awareness

I am hopeful for positive change in the U.S. the world and the future. Please continue to support us artists continue to educate and inspire ourselves and others as we have done so throughout history. I am looking forward to continuing to build Akin, Amin, Atin with all of you.

Yours Truly,

Leonides D. Arpon

WHAT IS A FILIPINO? PLEASE COME AND SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND ANSWERS WITH US!

Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America presents Variations in a Foreign Land IX:
Akin, Amin, Atin (for me, for us, for everyone) An Evening of Works Featuring Filipino Choreographers Leonides D. Arpon, Gerald Casel and Max Luna III

Location: Flushing Town Hall 137-135 Northern Blvd. Flushing, New York
Date: Friday, September 26th at 8pm and Saturday, September 27th at 3pm & 8pm
*Reception after Performance on Friday evening

$15 General Admission/TDF, 10% Group Discount for 10 or more, $10 Students and Seniors
Tickets Available at: www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444
Ticket Reservations: office@yangtze-rep-theatre.org
For more info visit: www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org

FOR MORE INFO & IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT US PLEASE EMAIL US AT: akinaminatin@gmail.com

MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHERS

LEONIDES D. ARPON, a Filipino born in Israel studied at the Bat-Dor Dance School under the direction Rosaline Subel Kassel, before joining the Bat-Dor Dance Company under the direction of Jeannette Ordman where he worked with choreographers such as Luciano Canitto, Randy Duncan, and Igal Perry.Upon arriving in to New York in 1999 Mr. Arpon has worked with ArthurAviles, Hernando Cortez, Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky, Fredrick EarlMosley, Nathan Trice, Edisa Weeks, Johannes Wieland and Kevin Wynn.He is a recipient of the American Israeli Cultural Foundation Scholarship and the Princess Grace Award for 2006. Mr. Arpon has taught workshops throughout Israel, Japan and the United States and he has presented his choreography in various venues in New York City such as the Queens Museum of Art Dance Residency, the Coming Together Showcases presented at the Joan Weil Dance Theater at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School, the Uptown/Downtown Dance Series at Aaron Davis Hall and the Harry De Jur Playhouse sponsored by the Field, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Harlem Arts Alliance and a season at Dance New Amsterdam sponsored by PMT Productions. He is currently a member of Armitage Gone! Dance.



Philippine-born GERALD CASEL received a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee assisted by a fellowship from the Advanced Opportunity Program. He has danced in the companies of Michael Clark, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Lar Lubovitch, The Metropolitan Opera, Sungsoo Ahn and Stephen Petronio where he was a member from 1991-1998 and 2001-2005 and served as the Stephen Petronio Company's Assistant Director and Director of Education. He continues to re-stage Petronio repertory on major companies including Ballet National de Marseille, Sydney Dance Company and The Scottish Ballet. In 1997 he was honored to receive a New York Dance and Performance Award "Bessie" for sustained achievement. As a teacher, Casel has taught at Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, Impulstanz, The School for Modern Dance in Denmark, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Barnard College and currently as a faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. In 1999 and 2006-7, he was a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and this year is a finalist for NYFA's Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship. Casel began making choreography for his company, GERALDCASELDANCE, in 1998 performing at DTW, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Joyce SoHo, Danceworks (Milwaukee), Conduit (Portland) and ODC Theater (San Francisco). He has been commissioned by The Yard (Make Way For Dragons, 2001), NYU Second Avenue Dance Company (Kinship Descent, 2007), The Barnard Project at DTW (Frost, 2007) and DaDa Dance (Exit Skeleton, 2008). Upcoming projects include Save the Robots! (Dance New Amsterdam, Nov 20-23) and a collaboration with Edinburgh's X Factor Dance Company which will tour the UK in 2009. http://www.geraldcaseldance.com/



MAX LUNA III's return to Ballet Philippines as artistic director brings full circle a career spanning nearly 35 years and six continents to as an internationally acclaimed performer, teacher and choreographer. As a student, Mr. Luna began his training at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and continued in the United States at such prestigious institutions as the American Ballet Theater School, the School of American Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. From there he went on to dance with Ballet International de Caracas, Ballet Hispanico, Joyce Trisler Dance Company, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal and finally, six highly acclaimed years with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Along with his stage career, he has also appeared on television in the "Bill Cosby Show", the PBS series "Dance in America", the "Kennedy Center Honors" and on the Italian network, RAI, in a documentary on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.As a teacher, Mr. Luna has been praised for a keen movement sense complimented by an in-depth knowledge of dance techniques. His extensive teaching credits include 20 years on faculty at the Ailey School along with, among others, Teatro Nuovo di Torino (Torino, Italy), Bartholin International Ballet Seminar (Coppenhagen, Denmark), Baardar Dance Academy (Oslo, Norway), the Actor's Studio (New York, NY), Vignale Danza (Vignale, Italy), Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY), Peridance (New York, NY), City College of NY and Ballet Hispanico (New York, NY).Critically celebrated as a choreographer, Mr. Luna has been commissioned by the Ailey School, Teatro Nuovo di Torino (Torino, IT), Compañía Nacional de Canto y Danza (Maputo, Mozambique), Howard University (Washington, DC), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Roxybury Arts Festival (Roxbury, NY), Ballet East Dance Company (Austin, TX), Movements Dance Company, (Kingston, Jamaica) among many others.In 2000 Mr. Luna formed his own company, LUNA. The company has toured Nancy, Lunaeville and Thionville in France and Torino, Italy. In 2007 LUNA opened at the Schimmel Center in New York City to brilliant reviews from the New York Times.