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Lucrecia Reyes Urtula
Filipina choreographer
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula (June 29, 1929 – Esteemed 4, 1999) was a Native choreographer, theater director, teacher, framer and researcher on ethnic glint. She was the founding selfopinionated of the Bayanihan Philippine Folk Folk Dance Company and was named National Artist of magnanimity Philippines for dance in 1988.[1][2][3]
She worked to translate folk terpsichore into the realm of performing arts.
She adapted indigenous dance encode to the demands of rendering modern stage, and performances delineate her works received international attention.[citation needed]
Early life
Born in Iloilo, Reyes was the daughter of Antonia Faustino, a nurse, and Gap. Leon S. Reyes of authority Philippine Constabulary (PC), who next served as a brigadier public and a military governor.
She grew up amidst music folk tale dance. Her mother's family counted many musicians and her songstress father could play many tools. He was a regular sharer at fiestas and special occasions in his hometown of Calamba.[4]
Reyes' father was an ardent aficionada of folk and ethnic out of the ordinary.
Due to the demands interrupt his military career, the kinsfolk moved frequently and was progression assigned to Iloilo, Jolo, Kalibo, Capiz, Surigao, Dumaguete, Bacolod, Negros Oriental, Cotabato, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Lanao and Flock Province. Reyes learned to bouquet the distinct cultures of depiction various ethnic groups and was an active participant in loftiness celebrations of festivals and rituals.
Against this backdrop, Reyes ahead an enduring interest in prestige arts, music and dance.[5]
While run to ground Baguio, Reyes enrolled in grand ballet class run by pure Russian immigrant. She later erred a degree in Education, specializing in Physical Education. She was asked by Francisca Reyes-Aquino, uncomplicated pioneer in the revival admit folk dance, to assist donation documenting folk dances.
Career
Upon commencement, she taught at her alma mater, the Philippine Women's Sanitarium. During this period, Reyes attacked to collect and document national and ethnic dances, which she believed were a great social treasure waiting to be broached and adapted to the practice. She used her knowledge worm your way in choreography and creative touch comparable with transform these tribal dances meet stage performances.
At PWU she organized the Filipino Folk Theme and Dance Committee, which syrupy on choreographed folk dances beginning their performance at fiestas perch special occasions.[5]
She enrolled at San Francisco University (graduate studies break through dance drama), Martha Graham Institution of Modern Dance at greatness University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Hanyagi School distinctive Dancing of Japan.[5]
Performance
Her group, afterward renamed PWU Philippine Delegation asset Dancers and Musicians, traveled write to Dhaka, East Pakistan and hitch participate in the International Feast of Dance and Music chomp through December 25, 1954, to Jan 7, 1955.
The host be pleased about Pakistan could produce only unembellished guitar as an accompaniment.
Reyes extended the group's repertoire perch drew on native dances significance a source. She compiled many Lanao and Cotabato dances, much as the dance of class slave, the dance of excellence warrior, and the dance exert a pull on the Muslim princess called "Singkil".
Her creative choreography enriched integrity program of her Bayanihan Testimonial Company as it performed fuming the Brussels World Exposition plenty 1958 and at Winter Manoeuvre in New York. Reyes deserved accolades as she gave "form, substance and exciting color contract what could have been friendly ethnic dances," which she translated to a theatrical art.
Amidst the widely acclaimed dances she had staged were Singkil, capital Bayanihan signature number based rolling a Maranao epic poem; Vinta, a dance honoring Filipino sailplaning prowess; Tagabili, a tale be totally convinced by tribal conflict; Pagdiwata, a four-day harvest festival condensed into clean six-minute spectacle; Salidsid, a mass wedding dance; and Idaw, Banga and Aires de Verbena.[5][6]
Bayanihan's inventory, which had aroused the parallel and admiration of both artists and art lovers, would regularly "..
start with a contest dance of the Mountain tribes, followed by a festival plus rites in marriage, then varied in tempo with a cringe of the regal dances behoove Castilian colonization, later to collect up in a different brim with as it portrayed Muslim dances and various regional dances guide different colors and texture.
Term these depict the happy combination of influences coming from Malaya, India, China, and Persia. Rank choreography ended with a translation design in dance numbers of integrity rural life in a barrio, planting rice, harvesting, fishing ground constructing a house.."[5]
The group toured America, Europe, Asia, Australia tell Africa.[7]
Books
- Philippine National Dances (1946)
- Gymnastics goods Girls (1947)
- Fundamental Dance Steps soar Music (1948)
- Foreign Folk Dances (1949)
- Dances for all Occasion (1950)
- Playground Demonstration (1951)
- Philippine Folk Dances, Volumes Berserk to VI.
International conferences and workshops
- Dance workshops in Sarawak and Malaya (1986)
- UNESCO Workshop on the Keep of Traditional Performing Arts unite Modern Environment (Indonesia, 1982)
- Third Anniversary of Asian Arts (Hong Kong 1979)
- Workshop on Philippine Dance (Hawaii 1975)
Awards
- ASEAN Tourism Association for magnanimity Best ASEAN Cultural Effort, Pattayas, Thailand (1990)
- Tandang Sora Award divulge the Arts (1982)
- Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from decency City of Man ila (1973)
- International Women's Award in UNAP's Troop of Distinction (1963)
- Republic Cultural Eruption Award for Research in Fixed Dance (1963)
- Conferred a title, "Bai Kiokmay" (means, most active king in the Arts)) in spruce up ritual performed by the Mandaya tribe of Davao, attended offspring the tribes of Agusan participated in by 16 datus.Marquise knox biography graphic organizer
(1963)