Art Events in Manila and Beyond

IPAG’s ‘Year of the Ox’ openers

Welcome the Year of the Ox which augurs well for our dance, theater, the performing arts, and poetry.

The Integrated Performing Art Guild’s long-running Tales From Mindanao opens 2009 with shows at the Batangas State University in Bauan on January 9. (“Tales” in the last 18 years has played to full houses fascinating audiences estimated at almost a million around the country and in over a hundred cities worldwide.) It performs at the Xavier University in February 5 and 6 and at the Centro Escolar University in Manila on February 16-18.

To celebrate the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 40 years, IPAG presents its landmark musical ‘Ranaw: Isang Alamat’ invited as one of the country's most accomplished groups restaging one of CCP’s most notable productions. The Ruby Celebrations demonstrate the exceptional achievements and artistic excellence of performing groups which the CCP has nurtured. [check: video trailer, and latest Philippine Daily Inquirer review]

‘Ranaw’ performs February 20 and 21, 2:30 p.m. matinees and 7:30 p.m. gala shows at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater).

A multi-media production of southern Philippine poets opens the IPAG series in March. Entitled Tula Tugma sa Dula, the performance art and theatre pieces features the transcreated works of Christine Godinez-Ortega, Anthony Tan, Don Pagusara, Ralph Semino Galan, Henry Opulencia, German Gervacio, Marge Evasco, and Ed Ortega, among others.

The full schedule of IPAG’s 31^st Season until March: