As we continue to face hardship due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, slowly we are figuring out how to cope and continue our arts programming. We have begun to open up and work with our artists since late spring, transforming our projects and work for virtual viewing and some live social distancing initiatives. Continue to follow us here and with our social media. Thank you for your ongoing support to Co.ERASGA during this hard time for the arts. We are thinking of all the artists and arts organization here at home and elsewhere. Stay safe and healthy.
// upcoming
EXchanges 2021
Dose of Pleasure with Alvin Collantes
February 27th, 10am PST
This season, we are thrilled to be delivering our EXchanges program in three installments throughout the year, with a different artist facilitating each session.
Alvin Collantes will be leading our first session, a livestreamed movement exploration delivered through Zoom.
Tickets are by donation, registration is necessary. Click below to confirm your attendance.
More info can be found in the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/777823536412388
Spring Studio Salon
April 17 & 18, 2021
livestreamed showings of works in progress by:
Jeanette Kotowich
Tin Gamboa
Sammy Chien
& Salome Nieto
more information coming soon!
Voices of the Dancers in the Time of COVID-19
A video series with the cast of Offering, where they share how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and changed their artistic practice. Filmed during the creation process of Offering, summer to fall 2020.
“contemporary, progressive, and provocative” - Georgia Straight
// about Co.ERASGA
We are a contemporary dance company founded on the principles of innovation, artistic integrity and social reflection.
Founded by choreographer and dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino in 2000, Co.ERASGA has a distinguished international reputation of a singular vision of hybrid dance, diversity and collaborations of other artistic practice and multimedia. At the heart of Co.ERASGA is Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino, a Filipino-Canadian artist of remarkable commitment, talent and energy, whose diverse cultural background and heritage has been a driving force for much of the company’s work. In addressing themes that reflect Tolentino’s individuality, global awareness and ethnicity, Co.ERASGA
exposes and explores issues of cultural identity, gender, hybridity, and promotes cross-cultural dialogue.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020, Co.ERASGA has created critically acclaimed contemporary dance productions: SOLA, BATO/Stone, MINORI, Volt, She Said, Field, OrienTik/Portrait, BODYGlass, PARADISE/Paradis, ADAMEVE/Man-Woman, Shadow Machine, EXpose, Unwrapping Culture, and most recently Collected, Traces and Still Here.
Co.ERASGA is Registered as Company Erasga Dance Society. Charitable registration number: 894061514 RR0001
Co.ERASGA acknowledges that our artistic programming and community work takes place on occupied and unceded ancestral, traditional territories of the Coast Salish people of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are very grateful to live, work and share on these lands.
© Co.ERASGA 2018