I am a Filipina immigrant, indigenous to the island of Panay, Philippines. Since my migration, my work questions my own post-colonial thought that drove me to migrate, and how to consciously bridge the diaspora to the motherland. Since the beginnings of this inquiry, my interests have gone beyond art-making centered on identity and representation alone. Instead, I use a research-to-movement performance praxis to offer my audience the same process of questioning that I have allowed myself. My work aims to educate, inform, inspire, and bring communities together through my embodied experiments.
Email: malayaworks@gmail.com
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October 2023
KAPWA exhibit at Da Vinci Art Alliance
Collaboration with Neill Catangay
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Sept 20-25
Multicultural Education for Counseling for the Arts
Lumikha Artist Showcase by Unipro Texas
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July 2023
Dunham Teacher Certification
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July 9, 2023
Panublion Museum
Field to Performance research with Prof. Emrita Dr. Alicia Magos, Dr. Christine Muyco, Ana Castor and Rennel Levilla
Roxas City, Philippines
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June 15, 2023
Mga tsismosa
National Center for Choreography
Akron, Ohio
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June 3, 2023
Tabo and a Wash Rag
JUNE 2023
collaboration with Brandon Aquino-Straus, Marcel Santiago Marcelino, Nikolai McKenzie
Painted Bride
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May 7
Sinawali
In celebration of AAPI month
Barnes Foundation and then MAPfund
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December 3 , 2022
Tagong Yaman (Hidden Treasures)
Painted Bride
Supported by the MAPfund
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November 29, 2022
Studies Project Decolonial Embodyments
Movement Research
New York
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November 13, 2022
Dance Studies Association
Dancing Resilience
Dance on Film Screening
Vancouver, Canada
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October 20, 2022
Filipina/x-American Futures: Urging the Horizon
Supported by Asian American Arts Alliance
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Sept 23, 2022
AniMalayaWorks with Bearded Ladies Cabaret
The late Night Snack
Fringe Festiva
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In-progress: Primx
with Marcel Santiago Marcelino
Chimac (home of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers)
May 6, 2022
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January 31, 2022
AniMalayaWorks at Movement Research at Judson Theater
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MECA HOUSTON Residency
April12-17 2022
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NANAY
Judson Dance Theater
December 19 2021
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NANAY
Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Sept 17, 19, 19
6:30-7:45
Bartram's Garden
https://www.bartramsgarden.org/event/nanay/2021-09-19
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December 14
Facing Change: Race as Social Construct ( Panel Discussion )
Monday, December 14, 6 – 7:30pm
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/talks/facing-change
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November 24
Open Movement Research
6-8 PM
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November 14
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
BlakTinX Dance
Sat. November 14th, 8pm
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November 13
Global Ramayana, 6 Pm (FB, VIRTUAL)
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October 25-26
Patawili Celebrates Filipino American History Month
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Patawili with a Kuratsa Folk Dance
October 25, 3pm EST
Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZUrfuyopzgpEty29b2ShMUdvZ8WV...
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Asian American Initiative celebrates Filipinx American History Month!
October 26 7-9 EST
https://asianartsinitiative.org/.../asian-american-artist...
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October 15, 2020
Delaware Contemporary Museum
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March 16, 2020
Movement Research at Judson
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anuary 18
UPENN ( TBA )
Lunar New Year Celebration
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December 6,7 2019
De(scribing) Maharlika @ Swarthmore University 4:30 pm Friday; 8 PM Saturday
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November 14, 2019
Patawili Films: Parang Drunk History (a retelling of the historical narrative that Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered the Philippines; honoring the chief that led the battle against Magellan, Lapu-Lapu ). De(scribing) Maharlika film, a film honoring and naming the indigenous tribes of the Philippines -- Philadelphia Asian American Festival @ Flesher Art Memorial, 8 PM
October 21,23 2019 @ Asian Arts Initiative, 7 PM
Patawili: a Sunday dinner and multi-disciplinary immersive dance theater experience on Filipino-American stories culminating an Asian Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists Residency project. This worked involved visual and conceptual installations and a story of an ancient Filipinx mythological character, Bighari, the goddess of the rainbow.
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Oct.5, 2019
Taga-blog: a site specific work designed to go with Isaac Witkin’s sculptural piece “The Bathers”, commemorating Outlet Dance Project’s 15th Annual Festival for Grounds for Sculpture
September 21, 2019
Sunset CypHER for Bartams’ Garden: part of Philadelphia Fringe, a site specific performance centered on ancient mythological stories ending with a dance and drum cypher for the community
August 18, 2019
Oval + Summer season: Solo Site Specific work performed at the Philadelphia Oval as part of the Fairmont Parks and Conservancy’s Oval + Summer season
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