Tracing Malong

// Tracing Malong The Dance Centre presents The 11th biennial DANCE IN VANCOUVER Co.ERASGA - November 25 8pm Scotiabank Dance Centre 677 Davie Street Vancouver, BC V6B 2G6 Buy Tickets Photo Credit: Yasuhiro Okada Co.ERASGA is Registered as Company Erasga Dance Society. Charitable registration number: 894061514 RR0001 As an arts organization with roots of Filipino [...]

PARADIS/Paradise

// PARADIS/Paradise PARADIS/Paradise is a cross-continental dance project between Canada and France led by Vancouver choreographer-dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino in collaboration with French musician-composer Emmanuel de St Aubin and Vancouver media artist Donna Szoke. It explores the relationship and breath of dance through live music and visuals, PARADIS streams within the moments of synchronicity between [...]

Unwrapping Culture

// Unwrapping Culture Unwrapping Culture brings together two exceptional male dance artists: Vancouver’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, and Pichet Klunchun, an outstanding exponent of the Thai classical dance style of Khon, who is known internationally for contemporizing this ancient form. Their first collaboration combines the technique, theatricality and storytelling elements of Khon to create a [...]

Collected, Traces, and Still Here

// Collected, Traces, and Still Here Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino. Featuring seven outstanding dancers from Vancouver and Manila, Tolentino’s quest in this new creation recalls and traces transcendent principle of the body’s relation to indigenous traditional arts. This full evening of [...]