Who is Daloy?
Daloy started with artistic director, Ea Torrado’s vision of generating daring and evocative dance theatre pieces with an ever-evolving group of dancers, actors and artists from diverse backgrounds. Nominated as Most Outstanding Contemporary Dance Group by Philippine LEAF Awards in 2019, Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company in 2018 and Best Classical Dance Company in 2017, Daloy interweaves dance theatre and improvisation to create evocative works that play with the boundaries of contemporary dance and invite audiences to both question and celebrate societal culture.
Having enjoyed diverse audiences by performing in a range of dance and art festivals locally and internationally, and in theatres, galleries, public sites and stages, Daloy had always craved for deeper connections fostered beyond the ‘performance’ of dance.
Capturing the energy and philosophy of Ea Torrado’s exploration of the human body as an instrument to provoke reflection and dialogue, the company has crafted Daloy Movement, an embodied and evolving research practice accessible to all body types and movement abilities, that many find liberating, transformative, and even healing.
In November 2020, Daloy was artist-in-residence at British School Manila, and gave dance-theatre-for-wellness workshops to their students for their Creative Arts Week, and shown two videos of Daloy pre-pandemic performances called Paghilom (Altaptap Artist Village, February 2020) and Nadia and the Blue Stars (Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2019).
Daloy co-produced Bari-bari, a collection of 9 short dance films that combine interviews, folk and ethnic dances in Ilocos Region (and contemporary interpretation of these dances), while donning visual artist, Leeroy New’s costumes made out of recycled plastic bottles. Advocating for environmental sustainability and regeneration, the premiere of this work is on the Environmental Dances website by Company Christoph Winkler (November 2021), and Fifth Wall Fest international dance film festival (October 2021). Bari-bari is receiving funding support from Goethe Instut Manila.
Support Daloy Dance Company
Daloy Dance Company realizes the creation of new choreographies by artist-healer and choreographer Ea Torrado, her collaborators and guest artists. Nominated as Most Outstanding Contemporary Dance Group by Philippine LEAF Awards in 2019, Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company in 2018 and Best Classical Dance Company in 2017, we continue to build and sustain Daloy Dance Company by working towards mounting community rituals through site-inspired and nature-reverent immersive dance theatre pieces. If you feel moved to support DALOY DANCE COMPANY, donations can be made through the link below.
Daloy is a space for release
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