POSAKA
October 20–23, 2022 • The Downstairs at LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club
Through ritual dance and chanted epics, Indigenous Master-Artists visiting from the Philippines share the living traditions of four unbroken lineages: Maguindanao, Meranao, Tausug, and T’boli. Set to the pulse of sacred drums and a live kulintang ensemble, Posaka navigates the boundaries of ceremony and theater to empower collective healing through ancestral arts. From the Sanskrit for “one who nourishes,” posaka (ie. heirlooms) retain ancient Austronesian animism denied in English to so-called “things.” Performing cultural translation at many levels, these tradition-bearers as embodied posaka repair the erasures of hegemony and enduring objectification of colonialism.
October 20–23, 2022
The Downstairs
66 East 4th Street, basement level
New York, NY 10003
Tickets:
Adults: $30
Students/Seniors: $25
First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)
Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.
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POTRI RANKA MANIS
Bai Labi a Gaus sa Borocot, Maguing
Founder, Artistic Director + Choreographer
“The performance…is an act of remembering a home…to which they advocate a return.”
-The Theatre Journal
Meet the
Master Artists-In-Residence
Lyn Buti
T’boli Tradition-Bearer
Lyn was born in Lake Sebu. It is the home of the Tboli people who are surrounded by three lakes: Lake Lahit, Lake Seluton, and Lake Sebu. She grew up in the traditional Bong Guno surrounded by Tnalak and other hand-woven baskets, mats, beaded necklaces, and lewek (along). The dances and music that Lyn performs and teaches are all learned as part of her life.
Leonorah
Dirampaten-Grande
Meranao Tradition-Bearer
As a granddaughter of Sultan a Gaus of Borocot, one of the royal houses of Lanao del Sur, she was married to the son of Sultan of Macadar and is currently a proud mother of six children. She graduated from Mindanao State University with a B.S. in International Relations and while in college, was awarded best performer of the year as a member of Sining Pananadem, cultural troupe (2001). She strives to fulfill her grandfather’s wish of honoring her ancestry by learning, preserving, and promoting her people’s traditions as a member of the royal family. She hopes that through these efforts she will change other people’s perspectives on her culture while expanding her knowledge of other nations and their cultures as well.
Datu Faisal Monal
Maguindanao Tradition-Bearer
Datu Faisal is currently the choreographer of the CCSPC-Salamindanao Dance Company. He is an exceptional Moro Master in arts, dance, and traditional music, as well as a skilled chanter and shaman. He plays various traditional instruments: kulintang, agong, debakan, babendil, and gandingan. He has shown excellence in dance production, collaborating with other Maguindanaon dance masters in several Philippine festivals like the Kalilangan Festival (Gensan), T’nalak Festival (South Cotabato), Meguyaya Festival (Nuro, Upi Maguindanao), to name a few. As a traditional musician, his Kulintang Group Magui Moro Master Artist has been invited by Kularts, SF CA USA as a Philippine Master Artist in Residence and performed several times in selected states of the USA such as Asia Alive!, Asia Arts Museum (San Francisco), A Musical Travelogue of the Philippine Towson University (Maryland), UCLA Class Lectures, Dance Demonstration, and many others across the country. He is also a resident artist of the Tao Foundation for Culture and the Arts (Quezon City, Philippines) and joined Grace Nono’s major concert abroad in Nagoya, Japan, and Asia Pacific week (Berlin, Germany, Barcelona, Spain).
SITTI AIRIA
ASKALANI OBESO
Taosug Tradition-Bearer
Lingling, as she is fondly called, was taught by her mother, all the traditional dances and kissa (chant story) of the Taosug people. Her family are originally from Tawi Tawi, Jolo, Southern Philippines, she is currently in Davao City along with her immediate and extended family. She is a true dance master teacher who transmits her culture and tradition despite being displaced from her home island.
…awaken all the senses…with healing chant, thunderous gong, and tantric movement…
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