Led by a steadily thrumming score of trance music, the dancers flow through compounded cycles of choreographed expressions. These expressions progress from a rigorous, almost military synchronicity into a series of schisms and a full structural breakdown. And the dance progresses out of unity and into chaos. In that chaotic space of primal release, Daloy Dance Co. first encountered Moonlight. If Howl was a call into the void, Moonlight is who answered it.
In Moonlight, Daloy Dance Co. takes the exploration further, posing the questions: Can chaos lead to bliss? Can trance transcend?
Moonlight leads the ensemble of dancers through a sequence of movement investigations that aim to bring them into an ecstatic state. Structured as an homage to ancient shamanic rites of passage, as well as to the filipino legacy of the queer babaylan, Moonlight is a performed visitation. A wounded healer visits the dancers - hard-worn and wise, beyond species, gender, or time - and endeavours to guide them through a journey toward emancipation. In this season plagued by fear and grief, Moonlight appears and dares us to shake ourselves free from all we know, shed all doubt, and reach for our bliss.
Direction and choreography: Ea Torrado
Performance: Daloy Dance Company and Ea Torrado, Buboy Raquitico, Jomarie Cruz, Joy Adrable, Julienne Depatillo, Jaime Monserrat, Jamie Paraiso, Jan Lloyd Celcecio, Jovin Lazaro,
Arcelyn Lualhati, Kennard Insigne
Performance: PNoise Festival, Fringe MNL Festival X PNoise Nordlys Festival 2019
Poto Credit: Sipat Productions
