I would like to share the live presentation I did last year on June 18 at the Marble Summer Arts Festival in NYC. I called it Babaylan Prayer in honor of the shamans and healers who, even today, in different forms, carry on the rituals and traditions of ancient Philippines. I choreographed this short program as a “wordless worship”. It is part of a longer work that I’ve taught in seminars. The background music is from the CD Shakuhachi The Japanese Flute by Kohachiro Miyata. The video was filmed by Carlos Esguerra and edited by Manny Maramara.
Photo shows the audience in the Babaylan Prayer segment of the program.
I also read my poetry live last year but there is no video of it. However, here is another poetry reading for the 6th annual Summer Arts Festival when it went online because of the covid pandemic.
Photo shows me reading my poetry at the Marble Summer Arts Festival in 2023.
