Program of Activities

8:00 Registration

9:00 Opening Ritual –National Anthems and Parade of Costumes

Welcome Address
Hon. Ma. Lourdes C. Fernando,Mayor of Marikina City

Message
Mr. Ben Suzuki, Director of Japan Foundation

Message
Ms. Carmen Padilla, Commissioner, UNESCO Philippines

Message
Representative from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts

Dance by the AlunAlun Dance Circle

10:00 Keynote Speech: Prof. Mohd Anis Md. Nor, Ph.D
Culture Centre
University of Malaya

“Appropriating Ethnochoreology on Dance Research and Dance Reconstruction of the Dances of Maritime-Malay Societies in Southeast Asia”

10:30 Break

11:00 Lecture-Demonstration: Prof. Esteban Basilio S. Villaruz
Head, Dance Program, College of Music
University of the Philippines

“Writing Out the Body in Dance”

11: 45 Introduction of Participants and Staff

12:00 Lunch Break

PM Session:

1:30 Lecture – Demonstration: Mr. Indra Utama
Indonesian Arts Academy
Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

“Minangkabau Dance in West Sumatra: From Martial Arts to Dance”

2:00 Lecture – Demonstration: Mr. Sukarji Sriman
Cultural Centre University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mask Dance: Continuity in the Javanese Dance Traditions

2:30 Open Forum

3:00 Coffee Break

3:30 Lecture- Demonstration: Ms.Takana Kojima
Traditional Dance of Okinawa, Japan

4:45 Open Forum

5:30 Book Launch: Treading Through: 45 years of Philippine Dance
Author: Prof. Steve Villaruz
Dance Performance by the UP Dance Company

6:30 Dinner

9:00 Lecture – Workshop: Ligaya Fernando Amilbangsa

Artistic Director, AlunAlun Dance Circle

“The Pangalay Dance Style of the Sulu Archipelago: Philosophy, Movement Vocabulary and Method of Instruction”

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Lecture-Demonstration: Prof. Arnulfo Esguerra
Chair, Committee of Culture and Arts
University of the Philippnes, Manila

The Conservation of Traditional Music in the Philippines

11:15 Open Forum

12:00 Lunch

PM Session:

1:30 Lecture – Demonstration: Mahail Hadjan
Head, Physical Education Department
Mindanao State University College of Technology and Oceanography

“An Elusive Journey”

Lecture: Dr. Maria Teresa M. Sicat
AlunAlun Dance Circle Director for Institutional Linkages

“Learning Pangalay in the Sixties”

2:30 Lecture with film documentation: Ms. Nannette Matilac
Documentary Filmmaker and Managing Director, AlunAlun Dance Circle

“Electronic Images of the Contemporary Evolution of the Pangalay or Igal”

3:00 Lecture – Demonstration: Mr. Peter Paul de Guzman
Dance teacher, Los Angeles, USA

“Philippine Folk Dance Conservation in the US”

3:30 Open Forum

4:15 Group workshops: Problems Encountered in Dance Conservation

5:30 Preparations for performances: Jamming For Dance Conservation

6:00 Dinner

9:00 Lecture – demonstration: Mr. Suon Bun Rith
Grassroots cultural worker, Amrita Performing Arts
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Classical Traditional Dance in Cambodia

9:45 Break

10:00 Lectures and demonstrations:
Dr. Chanai Vannalee and Prof. Chulachart Aranyanak
masters of Thai classical masked dance drama
National College of Dance and Music,
Ministry of Culture, Bangkok

The Giant and Monkey Roles in Thai Classical Dance

11:15 Open Forum

12:00 Lunch Break

PM Session:

1:30 Continuation of Workshop: Problems encountered in Dance Conservation

2:30 Group Presentation

3:15 Break

3:30 Three – Year Program and Planning for Future Collaboration

4:15 Presentation of Group Planning

4:45 Evaluation and Synthesis

5:30 Participatory Performance: Jamming for Dance Preservation
Performances by country representatives, groups and individuals dedicated to Dance Conservation
(Open to the public)

6:30 Dinner