IPAG's Year of the Ox openers

CEBU, Philippines - The Year of the Ox augurs well for Philippine dance, theater, the performing arts, and poetry. The MSU-IIT Integrated Performing Arts Guild announces its openers for 2009, also highlighting its 31st Season until March.

IPAG’s long-running Tales From Mindanao performed at the Batangas State University in Bauan last January 9. “Tales,” in the last 18 years, has played to full houses, fascinating audiences estimated at almost a million around the country and in over a hundred cities worldwide. It performs at the Centro Escolar University in Manila on February 16-18.

To celebrate the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 40 years, IPAG presents its landmark musical Ranaw: Isang Alamat invited as one of the country’s most accomplished groups restaging one of CCP’s most notable productions. The Ruby Celebrations demonstrate the exceptional achievements and artistic excellence of performing groups which the CCP has nurtured.

‘Ranaw’ performs February 20 and 21, 2:30 p.m. matinees and 7:30 p.m. gala shows at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater). A series of pre-CCP shows will be staged in Iligan City starting in January 14.

A multi-media production of southern Philippine poets climaxes the IPAG series in March at the MSU-IIT. Entitled Tula Tugma sa Dula, the performance art and theatre pieces features the transcreated works of Christine Godinez-Ortega, Anthony Tan, Don Pagusara, Ralph Semino Galan, Henry Opulencia, German Gervacio, Marge Evasco, and Ed Ortega, among others.

For information, group tours, and bookings, contact the Artistic Director, mobile phone 0917-7161318 or email [email protected] (web: www.msuiit.edu.ph/ipag)

Photos: Scenes from “Ranaw: Isang Alamat”