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Ea Torrado

Torrado’s forays into contemporary dance have led her to choreographic collaborations and experiments with dancers, theater and visual artists, and she has emerged as one of the most promising contemporary Filipino dance-makers

Rina Corpus, Curator Magazine

Dance Performane -- Ea Torrado at 'Rebellion' Exhibit Jinggoy Buensuceso
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Dance Performane -- Ea Torrado at 'Rebellion' Exhibit Jinggoy Buensuceso

Cited as one of the most exciting and sought-after contemporary dancer-choreographers in the Philippines today, Ea Torrado is the founder and artistic director of Manila-based dance theatre group, Daloy Dance Company. She is a contemporary Filipina artist whose creations manifest in site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces. She was awarded the Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award (2014), Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography (2016) and Asian Cultural Council Grant (2017). --------------- -------------------- Hi loves, I'm Ea, I teach dance meditation, do tarot and reiki and is a meditation and mindfulness coach. I share life and wellbeing advice and tips. Join my Group Class, Live Q&A, and Tarot and Energy Reading, --Our Live and Interactive online community: https://www.patreon.com/EaTorrado_EnergyHealing?fan_landing=true Private Sessions: https://daloydancecompany.wixsite.com/eatorrado/coaching Collaboration: goddesscominghome@gmail.com Say hi on my socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatorrado/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EaTorrado Twitter: https://twitter.com/EaTorrado Join my monthly LIVE sessions on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EaTorrado_EnergyHealing?fan_landing=true _______________________________ Ea Torrado performs at the Opening Night of Rebellion, a solo exhibit by Jinggoy Buensuceso at Galleria Duemila. Curated by Leeroy New. Thank you JK Anicoche and Leeroy New. Video by Brandon Relucio Music by Explosions in the Sky - 'First Breath After Coma'
Moments of Movement #31 - Ea Torrado Feat. Alister Johnson - Teasing & Nina Simone - To Be Free
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Moments of Movement #31 - Ea Torrado Feat. Alister Johnson - Teasing & Nina Simone - To Be Free

From the #MomentsofMovement Series Artist/Dancer: Ea Torrado Captured by: valino Produced by: Chino Neri & Mika Fabella (Prodigy Ace) Filmmed at: Nova Gallery Manila Dressed Designed by: Stephanie Gancayco (Hella Pinay) On Screen Assistant to Ea: RV Mendoza Music By: Alister Johnson "Teaser" & Nina Simone "I Want To Be Free" Please Subscribe to the "Moments of Movement" Patreon to get more involved and for more exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/momentsofmovement Please donate to Moments of Movement here: https://www.paypal.me/momentsofmovement Thank you for your support Follow Ea Torrado here: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/eatorrado/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/ea.torrado website: https://eatorradoblog.wordpress.com/ Follow Alister Johnson here: Insta: https://twitter.com/alister_johnson?lang=en FB: https://www.facebook.com/alisterjohnson/ twitter: https://twitter.com/alister_johnson?lang=en Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/alisterjohnson Bandcamp: https://alisterjohnson.bandcamp.com/ website: http://www.alisterjohnsonmusic.com/ Follow Chino here: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lachinoheat/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/germanneriIII website: https://www.prodigyace.com Follow Stephanie Gancayco (Hella Pinay) here: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/hella_pinay/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/hellapinaydotcom/ Follow Nova Gallery here: FB: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAGALLERY/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/novagallerymanila/ follow Valino here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/MarkValino FB: https://www.facebook.com/thevalino Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thevalino www.MarkValino.com
Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on  Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 2
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Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 2

Daloy Dance Co's Artistic Director and Founder Ea Torrado was the featured artist on Cignal TV’s ‘CREATE’ last April 24, 2018. ‘CREATE’ is hosted by Daphne Osena Paez where she showcases local Filipino artists, their creative process, craft and what motivates their masterpieces, even their personal life, struggles and achievements. Thank you Maritoni Tordesillas and Danspace Ballet School for the venue support. ______________________________ Daloy Dance Company is a Manila-based group that realises contemporary choreographer Ea Torrado’s works by interweaving dance, theatre and improvisation. Since 2014, Daloy Dance Company has made waves in the Manila art scene by fulfilling its founder and artistic director, Ea Torrado’s vision of generating daring and evocative dance theatre pieces with an ever-evolving group of dancers, thespians and artists from diverse backgrounds. Nominated by Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company of 2017, and cited as one of Philippines’ TOP CREATIVES in 2016 by Preview Magazine, the company has performed in a range of dance and art festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Daloy is committed to the appreciation and critical understanding of dance by realizing the creation of new choreographies by Ea Torrado and her collaborators. ________________ About Ea Torrado Cited as one of the most exciting and sought-after contemporary dancer-choreographers in the Philippines today, Ea Torrado’s creations manifest in site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces. Among her awards are Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award (2014), Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography (2016) and The Asian Cultural Council Grant (2017). International Agent: www.kmpartists.com contact: daloydancecompany@gmail.com or FB: Daloy Dance Company, Instagram: @daloydanceco
Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on  Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 3
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Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 3

Daloy Dance Co's Artistic Director and Founder Ea Torrado was the featured artist on Cignal TV’s ‘CREATE’ last April 24, 2018. ‘CREATE’ is hosted by Daphne Osena Paez where she showcases local Filipino artists, their creative process, craft and what motivates their masterpieces, even their personal life, struggles and achievements. Thank you Maritoni Tordesillas and Danspace Ballet School for the venue support. ______________________________ Daloy Dance Company is a Manila-based group that realises contemporary choreographer Ea Torrado’s works by interweaving dance, theatre and improvisation. Since 2014, Daloy Dance Company has made waves in the Manila art scene by fulfilling its founder and artistic director, Ea Torrado’s vision of generating daring and evocative dance theatre pieces with an ever-evolving group of dancers, thespians and artists from diverse backgrounds. Nominated by Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company of 2017, and cited as one of Philippines’ TOP CREATIVES in 2016 by Preview Magazine, the company has performed in a range of dance and art festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Daloy is committed to the appreciation and critical understanding of dance by realizing the creation of new choreographies by Ea Torrado and her collaborators. ________________ About Ea Torrado Cited as one of the most exciting and sought-after contemporary dancer-choreographers in the Philippines today, Ea Torrado’s creations manifest in site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces. Among her awards are Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award (2014), Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography (2016) and The Asian Cultural Council Grant (2017). International Agent: www.kmpartists.com contact: daloydancecompany@gmail.com or FB: Daloy Dance Company, Instagram: @daloydanceco
Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on  Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 1
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Ea Torrado - Featured Choreographer on Cignal TV's "CREATE" Part 1

Daloy Dance Co's Artistic Director and Founder Ea Torrado was the featured artist on Cignal TV’s ‘CREATE’ last April 24, 2018. ‘CREATE’ is hosted by Daphne Osena Paez where she showcases local Filipino artists, their creative process, craft and what motivates their masterpieces, even their personal life, struggles and achievements. Thank you Maritoni Tordesillas and Danspace Ballet School for the venue support. ______________________________ Daloy Dance Company is a Manila-based group that realises contemporary choreographer Ea Torrado’s works by interweaving dance, theatre and improvisation. Since 2014, Daloy Dance Company has made waves in the Manila art scene by fulfilling its founder and artistic director, Ea Torrado’s vision of generating daring and evocative dance theatre pieces with an ever-evolving group of dancers, thespians and artists from diverse backgrounds. Nominated by Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company of 2017, and cited as one of Philippines’ TOP CREATIVES in 2016 by Preview Magazine, the company has performed in a range of dance and art festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Daloy is committed to the appreciation and critical understanding of dance by realizing the creation of new choreographies by Ea Torrado and her collaborators. ________________ About Ea Torrado Cited as one of the most exciting and sought-after contemporary dancer-choreographers in the Philippines today, Ea Torrado’s creations manifest in site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces. Among her awards are Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award (2014), Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography (2016) and The Asian Cultural Council Grant (2017). International Agent: www.kmpartists.com contact: daloydancecompany@gmail.com or FB: Daloy Dance Company, Instagram: @daloydanceco
Unearthing by Ea Torrado and Daloy Dance Company
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Unearthing by Ea Torrado and Daloy Dance Company

Video by Brandon Relucio Unearthing by Ea Torrado and Daloy Dance Company explores the profound entanglements of the carnal and the spiritual. An experiment in transcendence from the physical to more vulnerable states of inner being (loób), the three-person piece uses movement as a form of attunement to a deeper inward contact.  Inspired by Somatics, trance improvisation, and contemporary practices of Babaylan philosophy, Daloy dance artists Buboy Raquitico, Zyda Baaya, and Jomari Cruz transcend conventional dance-making and performance through chanting and intuitive movement. Chant artist and singer Anjeline de Dios, percussionist and Kulintang-player Tusa Montes and award-winning lights designer Katsch Catoy envelop the piece in a powerful and uninhibited setting.  In expanding the inner space of loób, the three bodies reanimate the consciousness-shifting modality of the Babaylan—the pre-colonial shamanic priestesses of the Philippine islands. Unearthing transforms performance into community ritual, foregrounding the social being as a sacred being. Unearthing premiered at the 2015 Karnabal Festival: Social and Performance Innovations. Wanggo Gallaga of the Manila Bulletin writes that the piece showcases Daloy's distinct orientation “away from the conventional idea of what contemporary dancing is expected to be. Unafraid to explore awkward shapes or deal with simplistic narratives, the Daloy Dance Company presses forward in their offering of a very different kind of contemporary dance show for the Filipino audience.”  ___________________________ Daloy Dance Company is a Manila-based group that realises contemporary choreographer Ea Torrado’s works by interweaving dance, theatre and improvisation. Since 2014, Daloy Dance Company has made waves in the Manila art scene by fulfilling its founder and artistic director, Ea Torrado’s vision of generating daring and evocative dance theatre pieces with an ever-evolving group of dancers, thespians and artists from diverse backgrounds. Nominated by Aliw Awards as Best Dance Company of 2017, and cited as one of Philippines’ TOP CREATIVES in 2016 by Preview Magazine, the company has performed in a range of dance and art festivals in the Philippines and abroad. Daloy is committed to the appreciation and critical understanding of dance by realizing the creation of new choreographies by Ea Torrado and her collaborators. Read more about Daloy here: www.daloydc.com ________________________________ About Ea Torrado Cited as one of the most exciting and sought-after contemporary dancer-choreographers in the Philippines today, Ea Torrado’s creations manifest in site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces. Among her awards are Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award (2014), Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography (2016) and The Asian Cultural Council Grant (2017). Read more about Ea here: www.eatorradoblog.wordpress.com

Torrado's works have been supported by The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Meeting, Asia Pacific Improv Festival and Southeast Asia Choreolab, The National Commision for Culture and the Arts, Japan Foundation, Pineapple Lab, CCP’s Neo Filipino, WIFI Body Festival, Steps Dance Project, Contemporary Dance Network Manila and Searchmindscape Foundation.

'Kaingin' at CCP Lawn for Jinggoy Buensuceso Exhibit, 2022- Ea Torrado, Daloy Dance Company Contemporary Dance Philippines
'Moments of Movement'2 at Nova Gallery, 2018 - Ea Torrado, Daloy Dance Company Contemporary Dance Philippines

Ea Torrado (1985, Quezon City) is a queer-identifying, La Union-based Filipina contemporary choreographer, performing artist and educator.  Her creations manifest in performance rituals, immersive theatre and movement gatherings, site-specific work, film, installation, improvisational performance and dance theatre pieces.

As the founder and artistic director of Daloy Dance Company since 2014, for her, Daloy is not just a platform for her works; it's a liquid space where rich, messy, promiscuous, generative, and hard-to-classify dances can come to life. 

From 2020 pandemic onwards, Torrado has expanded her repertoire to include a series of movement and meditation gatherings that delve into the concept of the ‘divine feminine’. These gatherings include “Ritwal", “When She Comes - Emergence of the Goddess Within Through Dance and Song”, "Ligaya - A Workshop on Gaze and Orgasms”, "Awakening the Inner Dyosa”, and “Dancing Dyosa Circle”. Additionally, she is also a tarot reader, energy healer, and mindfulness meditation facilitator — qualities of intuition, healing, and care that are deeply ingrained in her practice, reflecting divine feminine qualities.

 

Furthermore, she founded and continues to share Daloy Movement as a practice, where she guides others through embodiment exercises that intertwine intuitive and improvisational movement practices for self-understanding, discovery, and deeper connection with others and with nature.

 

Internationally, she has performed at Ho Chi Minh International Dance Festival, Low Fat Art Fest Thailand, Goyang International Dance Festival, Lively Arts Performing Arts College in Pennsylvania & Cape Fear Community College for the Performing Arts in North Carolina, USA, SensUnique Gallery in Ghent, Belgium for Sorry Not Sorry Festival and participated in Radical Contact, Tanzplatform,Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting, Asia Pacific Improv Festival and Southeast Asia Choreolab, among the few.

 

She have received support from The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Meeting, Asia Pacific Improv Festival and Southeast Asia Choreolab, The National Commision for Culture and the Arts, Japan Foundation, Pineapple Lab, CCP’s Neo Filipino, WIFI Body Festival, Steps Dance Project, Contemporary Dance Network Manila and Searchmindscape Foundation.

Ea Torrado - Daloy Dance Company Contemporary Dance Philippines

Awards

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1st Place at Philippine Dance Cup for her piece 'Flight'

2018

03

Remedios De Oteyza Award for Choreography

2016

05

Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award

2014

02

Asian Cultural Council Grant

2017

04

3rd Place at Philippine Dance Cup for her piece 'Evaporation'

2016

Works

ItikLandia (2023)








Pag-aatang (2023)

















Pamamaalam (2022)

ItikLandia, a contemporary dance theatre, was birthed by the Daloy Dance Company during their residency at the British School Manila in March 2023. Directed by Ea Torrado, this piece is initially inspired by the traditional Filipino folk dance “Itik-itik’, and is a physicalized hymn to the natural world we all share, live and thrive in. Read more

"Pagaatang" is a short film directed by Ea Torrado, which in Tagalog, means "offering" or "sacrifice."

On May 5th, Ea Torrado chose to commemorate her late grandmother's birthday through a ritual led by the ritualist, Malaya Arguelles. This ritual served as an offering to Ea's ancestors and a transformative rite of passage for her. Malaya called upon Ea's spirit guides and her grandmother's guidance to accompany her on her new journey as an artist and healer. The ritual depicted in the film takes place at The Mebuyan Vessel, an awe-inspiring art installation created by Filipino artist Leeroy New. Inspired by the mythology of the Bagobo-Tagabawa people, the installation pays homage to the deity Mebuyan. Read more

Ang kanta na ito ay para kay Nanay Irene Antonia Patolot Ta-asan who transitioned to the non-physical realm today, October 15 2021. Ang title ng kantangsayawritwal na ito ay 'Pamamaalam'. Para din sa lahat ng kailangan nating pakawalan lalo na nitong huling Typhoon Maring.

(This work is made possible through the support from Greenhouse Theatre, Ontario Arts Council and Sha Sambong para sa isang project na ang ngalan ay The Future is Ritual) Watch this work

 

 

Bari-bari (2021)

Ea co-directed 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 is  supported by Goethe Instut Manila.  Read more

Tethering (2020)

In La Union, Philippines, dance artist Ea Torrado finds herself tethering to a practice of ‘embodies listening’ to the ground, the winds and the sun. Ea roots herself to the sensory experience the natural environment is moving her, as she negotiates being the originator of the movement and being the channel through which movement happens in every prolific, present moment. Read more

Encounters (2019)

Encounters is a performance by Daloy Dance Company and contemporary choreographer Ea Torrado.It developed around Agnes Arellano’s suite of goddess sculptures Dakini, Innana, Kali and Magdalene. The goddesses appear descended in a grove at the Diliman campus, strong verdigris forms amidst lush green growth.

Encounters explores dualities of human existence and is rooted in Ea Torrado’s exploration of dance as emancipatory ritual. Read more

Moonlight (2019)










Howl (2018)






 

In Moonlight, the corps of dancers undertook the challenge of folding different lexicons of movement together: drawing vocabulary from the club kids, ravers and the voguing ball scene, and weaving it in with systems of motion and symmetry in animal species: flocks of birds, schools of fish, cicada swarms, cats howling at the moon. Led by a steadily thrumming score of trance music, the dancers flow through compounded cycles of choreographed expressions. Read more

Howl’ explores a new movement language of ‘release’ through club techno music. ‘Howl’ is inspired by somatic explorations that transcend the body from restriction and inhibition, to freedom and possibility, ‘Glitters’ explores movement invented out of these ‘liberating’ dance exercises, releasing the dancers’ bodies from rigid holding patterns, and pushing past their exhausting point through repetition and drive. Danced to evocative club techno beats  ‘Howl’ ponders on the performance of beauty, gender and vulnerability. Read more

Wailing Women (2017)

This piece is an homage to the grieving Filipina mothers and widows of the 12,000 (and counting) dead and ‘disappeared’ victims of the current Philippine administration’s ‘war on drugs’. Drawing inspiration from her interviews with these widows and mothers and her own intuitive practice of healing through Reiki and Yoga, Wailing Women probes on death, justice and human dignity. It combines storytelling, chanting and naturalistic movements (pulsating, punching, gyrating, shaking, cringing, wringing, releasing, etc.) to give voice and body to the sensations and sense-making of loss.In the middle of an ongoing war, with thousands of bodies killed and many others still missing, Read more

Pieces of Me (2015)












Unearthing (2015)












Dysmorphilia (2014)













Canton (2014)







 

“Combined with their bold experimental gestures and use of cultural traditions, Daloy Dance Company is an audacious voice slowly navigating the new ground in the current Philippine dance scene.”

–Rina Corpus, Curator Magazine

Drawing inspiration from pre-existing works, Pieces of Me is an experimental dance performance that fuses various movement vocabularies and theatrical devices, while employing Daloy Dance Company’s strongest suit— dance improvisation. Read more

Through intuitive movement investigations into first the sensuous, then the ecstatic, and finally, the mythic; Ea Torrado and Daloy's corps of dancers have assembled a fierce and primal homage to the filipino babaylan (the balance-bringing shaman-priestess) and to the ancient wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. The dance pushes pleasure forward unabashedly, pulling the dancers through a tantric spectrum of frenzied somatic release. Unearthing transforms performance into community ritual, foregrounding the social being as a sacred being. Read more

​Dysmorphilia– a love for one’s own deformed body, is coined out of the Greek words ‘Dysmorph’ or ‘misshapen’ and ‘Philia’ or ‘love’. In this digital age where the norm is to represent one’s self through online avatars, Dysmorphilia exposes a hyperbolic and satirical representation of individuals’ own perceptions and imaginations of their bodies. When the media makes a villain out of blemishes on one’s skin, when the press glorifies a certain complexion, when your peers give you a different eye  for your oddly placed mole, and when your family demonizes your fats, how do you define yourself? Read more

Canton is a non-linear narrative inspired by the lives of young girls and women struggling as survival sex workers in urban poor relocation sites. The urban sprawl of Manila, Philippines is home to thousands of Filipino families who migrate from the provinces to find work in the congested capital. Many become illegal settlers who are later on moved by the government to relocation sites three to four hours away from work in the city. Read more

Filipinas (2014)







Sisa (2014)

Choreographer and dancer Ea Torrado, one of the three featured artists at Lopez Museum’s upcoming exhibit “Complicated,” presents a three-channel video installation. Her work is based on the frantic search of Jose Rizal’s “Sisa” and reflections on the museum’s iconic “España y Filipinas” painting by Juan Luna. 

Using Sisa’s search for her missing children as a metaphor of post-colonial identity, Torrado presents the search for the many desaparecidos and victims of extrajudicial killings in recent history as premised in the promises of modernity and progress which are both at the core of nation-building and Luna’s painting. This film is produced with the support of Tuchi Imperial, sound designer Chris Aronson, cinematographer and film editor Dan Pamintuan and the ABS CBN Film Archives. Read more

Dots (2013) 














Nga-nga (2013)

Dots is a dance piece that fuses together elements of contemporary dance, film, and animation into the self-journey of a man who tries to connect the seemingly endless number of dots in his life. The happiness, the pain, and the love of each dot will be made felt by the direction of contemporary dancer-choreographer, Ea Torrado. Dancing in the piece are Erickson Dizon, Jomelle Era and Miki Ochoa from Core Dance Group, Mark Rosaroso from the Chameleon Dance Theater, Riel Bulos from Airdance, and independent contemporary dancers, Sabrina Gacad, Ryan Salas, Mervin Manuel, and Bill Barrinuevo. Original music is composed by theater artist, Christopher Aronson. Read more

Nga-nga is a piece exploring the vacuum world of the humdrum and the ways we try to make life a little more bearable for ourselves. nga-ngá png pag-nga-ngá [Bik Kap Hil Iba Ilk Mag Mrw Pan Seb ST War]: pagbuka ng bibig; AKASANGÍ What happens when you live life doing what you have to do rather than what your body and soul yearn for? What happens when you live life on the terms of the world rather than your own? What happens when you allow your own misfortune to be your destiny? 

Watch a snippet

 

Photo Credits: Meinard Navato, Tuchi Imperial, Kitty Bunag, Erickson Dela Cruz and Chino Neri

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