PROMISES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN an adventure in performance
mae bayot jay cruz tess jamias regina lasam diego maranan donna miranda

november 9 & 11, 9pm lumiere gallery free entrance


A performance is like an adventure, to drop out of the continuity of life, cutting out a piece of endless continuous sequences of perceived experience, detaching it from all connectives and giving it self-sufficient form (Georg Simmel).

Acrobats of love, cynical and vulnerable at the same time, six warm bodies seek to tell the stories of their bodies by evoking frustration of attention, interrupting choreographic-driven material with improvisation. Offering glimpses into brief episodes of challenged reality, broken continuities and unabridged circumstances. In this adventure Donna Miranda invites conspirators Dancing Wounded's Jay Cruz, and Mae BayotRegina Lasam along with Tess Jamias and Diego Maranan to temporarily disrupt the sociology of a cafe้ environment. Using spoken word, text, gestures and movement, the artists are enjoined to paint the grotesque of seduction and frustration, much like the idea of performing before an audience. How to “install” our bodies in the gallery/caf้ space and allow a narrative to take shape? What happens when we heighten the ordinary under artificial conditions, prolonging the pregnant glances and risk to move beyond the accepted? Promises are made to be broken is an independent initiative brought in cooperation with Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune.
Lumiere gallery is located at Podium Floor, Locsin Bldg., Makati Ave., cor Ayala, Makati City. For inquiries, 0917 5013401.