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Lola Isang: A Performance On The Story Of Comfort Women Using Antonin Artaud’S Theater Of Cruelty And Rhizome Lee’S Subbody Butoh Method, Hannah Kirei B. Duran May 2022

Lola Isang: A Performance On The Story Of Comfort Women Using Antonin Artaud’S Theater Of Cruelty And Rhizome Lee’S Subbody Butoh Method, Hannah Kirei B. Duran

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

This artwork aims to promote awareness and to highlight the plight of Lola Narcisa to show people the abuse that these comfort women have experienced during the Japanese occupation and to encourage thespians to add narratives and plays about comfort women to keep their stories alive. The plight of the comfort women is barely taught in schools. In this performance, the audience will obtain knowledge about the horrors and the plight made from war. At the end of this study, the researcher hopes that learning about the horrors that the comfort women experienced may stop them and the future generation …


Retelling Van Gogh: Adapting Vincent Van Gogh’S Biography Using Bertold Brecht’S Epic Theatre, Isabel Grace D. Kehyeng, Sharibelle Angelika S. Lao, Elyza Margarette U. Yap May 2022

Retelling Van Gogh: Adapting Vincent Van Gogh’S Biography Using Bertold Brecht’S Epic Theatre, Isabel Grace D. Kehyeng, Sharibelle Angelika S. Lao, Elyza Margarette U. Yap

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in the world. His paintings, such as the “Starry Night”, and his many self-portraits are among the most well-known in the world for its precise brushwork and use of vivid colors. However, Vincent is remembered not only for his paintings, but also for his tortured life, which included slicing off his ear and committing suicide while working before his easel near the end of his miserable, misunderstood life. With the usage of some of the elements of Bertold Brecht’s methods of Epic Theatre, Vincent van Gogh’s complicated life as an …


People With Diverse Talents: Arts-Based Research Involving Persons With Disabilities Using Ricky Curry’S Workshop Approach, Janna Raquel D. Talampas, Matthew Ericsson L. Sy. May 2022

People With Diverse Talents: Arts-Based Research Involving Persons With Disabilities Using Ricky Curry’S Workshop Approach, Janna Raquel D. Talampas, Matthew Ericsson L. Sy.

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Since Persons with Disabilities (PWD) encounters countless challenges such as distinct protection risks which include high risk of violence, exploitation, abuse, and high levels of stigma, the researchers made a documentation of the whole process of their study which consists of workshops, rehearsals, and interviews that were intended for people with disabilities. It aims to give an overview of the experiences of the participants throughout the study. This is to empower disabled people to boost their self-confidence and self-esteem, and to be involved in the community. The researchers gathered four participants to undergo workshops using Ricky Curry’s workshop approach which …


Reconstructing Maria Clara: An Empowered Contemporary Interpretation On The Undervalued Characteristics Of Filipino Women Through Analyzing Maria Clara In The Carinosa, Calista Loriana L. Conlu May 2022

Reconstructing Maria Clara: An Empowered Contemporary Interpretation On The Undervalued Characteristics Of Filipino Women Through Analyzing Maria Clara In The Carinosa, Calista Loriana L. Conlu

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Throughout decades of progress, gender stereotyping remains a social dilemma in the Philippines. Particularly with the media's continued portrayal of Filipino women as a part of society. These societal constraints on women date back to the postcolonial era, which continues to have an impact on women's life, robbing them of their independence, self-expression, and rights. This artwork aims to give a perspective that empowers the various qualities and roles of Filipino women that society deems as ‘undervalued’. In this study, Cultural Feminism was used as the basis of understanding the social dilemmas and other factors concerning gender roles, specifically for …


Dancing In My Abode: A Study On The Space Struggles Of The Online Dancer, Atasha Gabrielle D. Ramos May 2022

Dancing In My Abode: A Study On The Space Struggles Of The Online Dancer, Atasha Gabrielle D. Ramos

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

As the COVID-19 pandemic deemed performing artists unable to rehearse and perform in studios and theaters, space has become a big struggle for dancers, especially for those who train in Ballet. This dance piece is an original ballet variation created for a small space that interprets the difficulties and experiences of online ballet dancers. The researcher interviewed a dance teacher and a dance student about their space struggles, adjustments made for online dance, and their experiences. The struggles of both dance students and dance teachers include; internet connection, lag, hanging videos, disconnection, screen time, camera angles, attention span, lack of …


Multo: A Performance On The Representation Of Undocumented Filipino Migrants And Overseas Workers Through The Theatrical Form Of Devising, Rigel Cassandra V. Hechanova May 2022

Multo: A Performance On The Representation Of Undocumented Filipino Migrants And Overseas Workers Through The Theatrical Form Of Devising, Rigel Cassandra V. Hechanova

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Undocumented Filipinos, often addressed to as “TNTs”, meaning “tago nang tago”, are people who resided in a foreign country against their established immigration laws. Although the matter of migrating and working overseas has been going on for a number of years, the matter regarding overseas illegitimacy has been rarely discussed through the Philippine art medium, specifically, the theatre arts. In line with this, the artist-researcher was inspired to create a multiple-act performance that provides representation to the lives of undocumented Filipino workers / migrants and their loved ones left behind through the theatrical form of Devising. In terms of the …