MAY 2019 - YELAMU (SAN FRANCISCO, CA)
Daluyan
How do we cultivate an honest relationship with our personal and intergenerational traumas in order to realize our most whole Self?
Daluyan is a culminating performance that centers storytelling as an act of soul retrieval and ancestral medicine. This portal of time, space, and ritual continuum invites us to reflect in the depths and sit quietly with our shadows. Through movement, spoken word, music, and video - Daluyan offers care-full insight into the beauty and complexity that is required in community arts processes, and in healing.
Daluyan is a Filipino word that translates into “vessel.”
Photos by Scott Tsuchitani
Choreography + Artistic Direction: SAMMAY:
Performance Ensemble*:
Diane “Día” Alvites
Trisha Barua
Erika Vivianna Céspedes
Kai Gruezo
Jessica “malayasoul” Lizardo
Diwa Malaya
Lisa Suguitan Melnick
Maria Nocedal-Geaga
Cara Zamora
Live Accompaniment: Erika Oba
Video Design + Documentary: Solitaire Miguel
Altar Installation: Teresita Bautista
Technical Director: Darius Munoz
Lighting Designer: Dave Ragaza
Stage Manager: Ed Mabasa
Graphic Design: Baltazar Dasalla, ET IV
*Performers developed their stories through the DALUYAN: Embodied Storytelling Intensive. For 11 weeks, participants explored modalities of healing personal and intergenerational trauma, while cultivating practices centering ancestral memory, corporeality, and community exchange. The program centered BIPOC and gender expansive voices and was held at Bayanihan Community Center.
Made possible with support from California Arts Council, Bayanihan Community Center, and Bindlestiff Studio
