SUPPORT SYSTEMS

• SUPPORT SYSTEMS OF THE ARTS:

  1. Institutions
  2. Organizations & Collectives
  3. Media
  4. Alternative Platforms
• Support systems can be government-initiated, community or municipality based, privately supported, university oriented, artist-run, or internet-based.
• Collective and artist organizations - personalities who share related or similar practices.
• Anino Shadow Play and Sipat Lawin Ensemble - groups that defy our concepts of theater: collaborating performative media and fresh styles of public rendezvous.
• Black Artists of Asia - organization who highlight their regional attachment; made up of artists from negros
• Southern tagalog exposure - find common thread in the members' shared ideology
• Educational institutions: Schools & Universities

  • Offer formal artistic training and grant degrees
• Several universities and colleges offer courses on: Fine arts, design, multimedia arts, art management, curatorial studies
• Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) - Academic and non-government have also actively engaged in the production of contemporary theatrical performances in PETA kalinangan ensemble which stages original works and translations for community theater performances.
• Tanghalang Ateneo - stages both FIlipino plays and adaptations of the classics
• Teatro Tomasino - stages original plays written by students
• Dulaang UP - stages the classics in both english and filipino, original plays written by Filipinos, and even traditional sarswelas and musical theater
• Leanor Orosa Goquinco (1976) - created of Filipinescas Dance Troupe-- toured many cities around the world

  • a fusion of classical ballet and philippine folk dances
• Bayanihan Dance Company - Showcased Philippine dances in modified form to significant cities in Europe and the United States

  • Ramon Obusan (2006) - former member
• Frank Rivera - Thespian from Manila

  • traveled to marawi in Mindana and with the help of the Marawi State University, formed the SIning Kambayoka Theater Group.
• Sining Kambayoka Theater Group - make use of traditional Maranao Folktales and more current issues that concerned Muslim communities of Mindanao.
• Indigenous People's Right Act of 1997 - Manifestations of the IP's culture shall not be documented without their free, prior, and informed consent
• Several provincial dance companies which still perform traditional folkdances:

  1. Kalilayan Folkloric Dance Group
  2. University of San Carlos Dance Troupe
  3. Hiyas ng Maynilad Dance Troupe
  4. Leyte Dance Theater
  5. University of the Philippines Filipiniana Dance Group
  6. Lyceum of Batangas Folk Dance Company
• In the visual arts, museums are traditionally based on a collection of objects.
• Museums - in charged to preserve heritage for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations.
• Museum - often linked to ideas of permanence and authority
• Responsibilities of NCCA (National Commission of Culture and the Arts

  • Provides infrastructure...
  • Granting awards
  • Enabling exhibition or performance venues
  • Ensuring the nationwide representation
  • Support regions not normally perceived as centers of artistic practice
• Sungdu-an - waray term meaning "Confluence"
• Sungdu-an - series of cross-regional efforts that began in 1996 comprising of traveling exhibitions, consultations, and curatorial workshops
• Current (2005) - signifies recentness on the one hand, and passage of knowledge on the other.
• Kiri Dalena - translated these into an installation of wood pieces
• Art - constantly changing