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Marian Pastor
Roces, 1999
is a critic, scholar and independent curator. Born in the Philippines
in Batangas City, she undertook a 15 year research effort into the indigenous
textiles of island Southeast Asia to pursue her interest in perceptions
of the local which are inevitably mediated by the imperatives of late
capitalism. This and similar efforts inform her critique of notions of
tradition and disjunction, published and read internationally. She developed
the curatorial and management designs of four major museums in several
cities in the Philippines. In establishing the Cultural Center of the
Philippines' Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino (Museum of Philippine Culture),
she extended her theoretical explorations into the problems of representing
performed forms of cultural expression in the object-focused environment
of a museum. Elaborating on this experience, she founded TAO Management
Inc. to develop ways of intervening ethically in the complex nexus of
museums and societies undergoing volatile shifts. TAO was recently engaged
to undertake the total rehabilitation of two principal national shrines,
one of which was re-created into the first outdoor museum in the Philippines.
She curated this outdoor museum to rework the connections among public
and private memory, "nature," and the built environment. Pastor
Roces' interest in performed forms is sustained by her resistance to aesthetic
and political forms which reduce everything into things.
Agnes Locsin,
1996
has won numerous awards for her distinctive choreography which she describes
as 'Filipino neo-ethnic'. As a director, choreographer and teacher, she
brings a wide range of techniques and styles to her work. She has been
the artistic director of the Ballet Philippines II from 1989 to the present,
where she developed her own training methods to draw out the promise of
talented young dancers and in 1994 she became the artistic director of
the parent company, the Ballet Philippines. She has been a faculty member
of the Center for Culture of Philippines (CCP) Dance School since 1985
and has been an artistic consultant to the Jazz Tap Center in Manila since
in 1985. She draws inspiration from the rich heritage of Filipino culture
and continues to conduct research into the traditional and ethnic cultures
of her homeland.
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