Anting Anting Soul Dance
2022-2023
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
KULARTS presents Anting Anting Soul Dance, a two-year project commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco exploring the talismanic power of movement and dance through a multidisciplinary ritual performance within the museum’s galleries, engaged research, and community dialogues. The performance will spark a community wide re-examination of the museum as a space that holds objects, many of them decontextualized from their traditional cultural practices. Through the project, we will create a contemporary framework, relevant to diasporic Pilipinx life, for these Museum objects from a community-centered perspective.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alleluia Panis
Director & Choreographer
Alleluia Panis, Artistic & Executive Director, is the driving force behind Kularts and respected elder artist in the US and the Philippines. One of the founding members of Kularts, Panis has served as the Director since 1985. She has created 20 full-length dance theater works since 1985. She received awards for her choreography from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, SF Arts Commision, California Arts Council, New Langton Arts, and Creative Work Fund. She was a board member of Brava! For Women in the Arts, Bay Area Dance Coalition, artist’s committee member of National Performance Network, and juror for Ethnic Dance Festival. She received the Dancers Group’s Dancers Choice Award in 2009. She was a 2010 fellow at the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute & at Rockwood Leadership Institute in 2012. She was awarded the prestigious 2017 SFAC Artist Legacy, 2019-20 Gerbode Special Artist Award, 2019-2020 Dance USA Artist Fellow, and 2020 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission.