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HEADLINES
IPAG premieres Ming Ming
local premiere receives enthusiastic attention. IPAG's newest production premieres in CCP Adindanao festival
IPAG wraps up 6th touring leg
Negros cities greet IPAG with electric responses
EVENTS SCHEDULE
one turf, two families, three generations, four characters...
a play by
STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
February 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, March 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
7:30 p.m. CASS Rooftop Theater
February 22 (Sun), 3 p.m.
Cultural Center of the Philippines
for ADINDANAO (Mindanao Arts Festival)
Tanghalang Huseng Batute
Tales From Mindanao
national tours
January
19 - Miriam College
22 - Museo Pambata
26 -Sagay City
26 - Cadiz City
29 - Talisay City
30 - Bacolod BAY Center
February
26 - Calamba, Laguna
27 - Holy Family, QC
(check CALENDAR for show schedules)
Inauguration and re-opening of National Steel Corporation February 3
Iligan City
Auditions and Training january continuing 2004
CHECK January-March Shows Calendar
Curtain call for WOW Philippines performance in Intramuros
recent news
IPAG wows Luzon, Negros in 5th leg
“Tales From Mindanao” toured Manila, Batangas, and Negros Occidental from November 27 to December 9
Standing Ovations in Davao-Iloilo shows
A jam-packed Holy Cross College gym in Davao and full-houses responded with standing ovations to IPAG's "Tales"
June-October
Iligan Schools feature children's stories
"Mga Kwentong Pambata" performs to 16 school districts in Iligan
IPAG tours Visayas-Mindanao
Closer to home, IPAG performs in key Mindanao and Visayan cities.
ARCHIVES
IPAG's trailblazing ways
IPAG off to a hot start in 26th Season
Panay hosts IPAG shows and workshops
World-class Boracay hosted "Tales From Mindanao" last April 12. ARCHIVES
Tours mark 26th Season
Continuing national touring performances feature the 26th repertory season of the IPAG.
Tri-people dance stories launches 26th Season
IPAG wows Intramuros Tourism Program. More standing ovations greet IPAG in Kalibo and Boracay
MILESTONE
In 2002, IPAG performed over 60 shows in a 2-and-a half-month tour of Monaco, France, Belgium, and Spain. It won the Grand Prize in the Concourse de Chanson Internationaux and was most awarded group of the 13th International Folklore Festival in Port Sur Saone, France. Check these pages.
WORLD TOUR 2002
2002 REVIEWS
IPAG WORLD TOURS
TALES FROM MINDANAO
MORE REVIEWS
IPAG premieres Ming Ming
One turf, two families, three generations, and four characters: this sets the plot of the latest play of the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) entitled Ming Ming.
Set in the heart of Moroland, Ming Ming recreates characters whose lives intertwine in a web of intrigue, politics, deceit, and romance. The play mirrors the anguish of three generations and the wars that drape an influential clan's conflicts.
IPAG reconstructs events and persons using the post-modern stage. The play penned by director-playwright Steven Patrick C. Fernandez whose major works have showcased the enigma and lifestyles of the island and its people re-invents local color for the modern stage.
The play's theme is a sensitive rendering of the conflict among politically-powerful Moro families: the need to cope with the changing conditions to survive, where tradition and religious fanaticism clash with the liberal ideas of the West.
Dance, visuals, a crisp plot, innovative direction, and meaningful storytelling in "Ming Ming" are the benchmarks of IPAG productions that have established the Guild as one of the country's leading repertory companies.
"Ming Ming" is produced with the support of the College of Arts and Social Sciencess, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Superferry, Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corp., 101.4 Star FM, and the MSU-IIT.
"Ming Ming" goes onstage 7:30 p.m. in February 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, March 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 2004, at the Rooftop Theater of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, MSU-IIT, Iligan City. It performs for Adindanao, the Mindanao Arts Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute, 3:00 p.m. in February 22.
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IPAG wraps up 6th Touring Leg
The MSU-IIT Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) has just wrapped up its 6th Leg of its "Tales From Mindanao" national tours from January 19 to 31 in Manila and the Visayas.
“Tales” continues to electrify diverse audiences in all its touring legs around the country.
These dance vignettes of Mindanao stories using IPAG's signature dance theater idiom have reached diverse audiences. To date, "Tales" has performed to over 40,000 audiences in this 26th Season alone. In its last leg, it performed to banner crowds in Lipa City, and Cadiz, Escalante, Victorias, and Bago Cities in Negros.
These tours are part of a larger advocacy to bridge communities for peace through theater. IPAG is the resident cultural company of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and acclaimed as a leading theater in the country today. It has won much acclaim in its wide international tours in Europe and Asia.
The 6th leg schedule follows: Miriam College (Jan. 19), Museo Pambata (Jan. 22), Cadiz City (Jan. 26), Sagay City (Jan. 26), Talisay City (Jan. 29), and Bacolod City (Jan. 30).
Supporting the IPAG are WGA SuperFerry (exclusive carrier of the national IPAG tours), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Pioneer Insurance, Jollibee, and the MSU-IIT.
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photo credits: Saki Binudin/IPAG/Robert Booc/IOV Taiwan