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CHANTAL PRIMERO
Chantal is driven, inspired, and always ready to grow. As a Senior Account Manager from Ant Savvy Creatives, she has managed to marry her corporate profession with her dance education. Steadily, she is navigating her career as Fundraiser Director for LikhaPH as well as a freelance consultant and grant writer for various groups across the metro. As a dance practitioner, her training hails from five years with Airdance and an undergraduate degree in Dance under the University of the Philippines. Since 2006, she has been performing, choreographing, organizing, teaching, writing, and participating in several national and international events.
RUTH JORDANA PISON
Ruth is a Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL) in the University of the Philippines (UP), Diliman where she earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in Comparative Literature. She was the associate editor of the revised edition of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts, Dance Volume, and the current co-editor of the online version of the same encyclopedia. Together with Partick Alcedo, she co-edited Narrativizing Dancing Bodies (2019), a special issue of UP’s DECL. Aside from her dance essays published in various journals, her critical works appear in anthologies and collectionson literature and dance such as Walking Through Philippine Theatre, Vols. I,II,II by Basilio Esteban Villaruz (2012). Her two books on Philippine novels were both published by the UP Press.
LOUISE GRACE NIGHTINGALE MENESES
Louise started dancing classical ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance at the Center for Movement and Music (CMM) at the age of four. Her mentors in CMM were Fericy Joson, Ronilo Jaynario, Herbert Alvarez, Ma. Elena Laniog Alvarez, Grace Caines, Jantu Revilla, Love Maria Llena, Jenny Sosa Nebres, and Jog Nebres. In the 2013 ABAP Ballet Competition, their group won First Place under the category of Junior 4 Group Contemporary. She is a graduating student of the BA in Music, major in Dance, from the College of Music, University of the Philippines, Diliman (UPD) where she is also a senior member of the UP Dance Company under Herbert Alvarez, Ma. Elena Laniog-Alvarez, Angela Lawenko-Baguilat, and Professor Emeritus Basilio Esteban Villaruz. Louise is a recipient of the UPD Performing Arts Scholarship Program (UPD PASP).
RONADAE PAOLA RUIZ
Ronadae is a college student from University of the Philippines majoring in Dance. She began her early dance training at Halili Cruz School of Ballet (HCSB), Ballet Philippines, Airdance, Victor Ursabia Dance Studio, and Center for Movement and Music (CMM). She’s currently dancing with the UP Dance Company (UPDC) under the guidance of Herbert Alvarez, Ma. Elena Laniog, Sarah Samaniego, and Angela Lawenko-Baguilat. Aside from being a dancer, she is also an Artist. She took Multimedia Arts as her specialization in Senior Highschool at CIIT College of Arts and Technology.
Performing outside the realm of classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, and hip-hop dance, she was invited to perform at Solidarity in Performance Art Festival (SIPAF) in 2017 and the succeeding years. While trying to strive for perfection in dance, her vision wonders to what usually is overlooked through performance art, a space where she’s hopeful she could discover a freedom for herself as a dancer and an artist, and finding the beauty of becoming something more.
ANJELA LU ARELLANO
Lulu trained in the classical arts (ballet, piano, guitar, violin) in the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, College of Music and in DBC-ISAS Conservatory. For ballet, she trained in the Cecchetti and R.A.D ballet certification program, under Desiree Peralejo-Medina.
Lulu is also an aspiring conservationist. Under Nikki Dyanne Realubit-Van deVen's mentorship, she has won awards for her Senior High-School thesis entitled "The Palawan Spiny Rat, Ecological Niche Utilization", in New York. Since then she has been an active youth volunteer for many conservation NGOs.
Currently, she is a sophomore at UP Diliman, taking her Bachelors in Music, majoring in Dance. She is a part of the UP Dance Company, and is under the tutelage of Ma. Elena Laniog-Alvarez for contemporary, and for classical ballet, Herbert Alvarez and Angela Lawenko-Baguilat.
