One performance only!

Event starts at 6:30 PM with a Mini-Fiesta in Studio A - Karaoké and food will be served
Performance at 7:30 PM at the Winchester Street Theatre
Followed by an Artist Talk Back featuring Choreographer Ralph Escamillan

PIÑA is an interdisciplinary dance work that explores constructions of diasporic identity and how the body carries history and ancestry in a globalizing world. Inspired by Artistic Director Ralph Escamillan’s experience as a first-generation Canadian-born Filipino/a/x, this work considers the parallels between the physicality of this experience, and piña—a traditional and celebrated Philippine fiber made from pineapple leaves. The delicate yet resilient textile parallels the fragility and strength of contemporary diasporic people, and by investigating the many facets of this culturally embedded textile, an anthropological journey through the body is created. Incorporating traditional folk dance, history, music and costume, the political, economic and social dimensions of contemporary diaspora are revealed.

Created and Produced by FakeKnot. Co-presented by FakeKnot and TDT, Co-produced by the National Arts Centre and Dancemakers, and Community Partner CanAsian Dance. 

FakeKnot gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the City of Vancouver, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs, The Dance Centre’s Artist-in-Residence program, Toronto Dance Theatre, Far Eastern University (Manila), Dance Victoria, and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. A special thanks to Joyce Rosario.