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SAMMAY’s “Ritual for Thrivation #2” Calls In
“Ritual for Thrivation #2” is a real life dreamscape contextualizing the movement, determination and creativity that propelled our Filipinx peoples all around the globe. A queerly liminal ritual of theatricality and soulfulness, melting the walls and floors, amplifying interior island heartbeats, illuminating the seen and unseen …” - Melecio Estrella for ODC.dance.stories, 2022
Filipinx American Artist Explores Resistance, Liberation, and Intergenerational Healing
“They founded SAMMAY Productions in San Francisco’s SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District to highlight intercultural performance and exchange as a means for intergenerational healing and liberation… SAMMAY Productions focuses on the power of ritual performance and how one uses dance to perform ancestral veneration.” - Mahalaya Arts & Culture, 2022
As Marcos Rises to Power, a Dance Ritual Helps Filipino Americans Process Grief, Fear
“ritual for thrivation no. 2 is an intergenerational, movement-based performance that explores the shadows of Philippine history and the inner worlds of Filipinos in the diaspora. Like all shadow work, it uncovers forgotten and unspoken truths as a means of necessary healing and care.” - KQED Arts & Culture, 2022
Sammay Dizon looks back to find a way forward in Urban X Indigenous
“Choreographer, musician, and healer Sammay Dizon is originally from the Southern California city of Carson, but she’s made her artistic home here in the Bay. Her work often deals with her cultural identity as a Filipina woman, particularly in the multimedia arts festival she founded, Urban x Indigenous." - KALW News, Crosscurrents, 2018
CounterPulse’s ‘Performing Diaspora’ Provides Sanctuary in Time of Strife
"SAMMAY layers ancient traditions impressionistically onto the reality of her existence as a child of the diaspora."
- KQED Arts & Culture, 2017
