Kommunity Kultura presents: Pangalay Dance with Desiree Quintero

868 Kearny Street,San Francisco CA 94108

08 January, 2022

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Please join Desiree Quintero in a Beginning Pangalay Class! Kommunity Kultura  is back at Manilatown with a weekend-long hands-on intensive on the music and dance of the Sulu Archipelago! Kommunity Kultura is our traditional Philippine music, movement and cultural education program taking place at San Francisco’s International Hotel Manilatown Center. Each of our family-friendly workshops focus on a new topic, are oftentimes hands-on, and are accessible to all ages and levels of ability. On Saturday, January 8th at 5pm we are so happy to have with us Ethnochoreologist Desiree Quintero, PhD as she leads an a Beginner Pangalay Workshop. Participants will learn the aesthetics of Pangalay Tausug/Suluk in order to begin to establish a foundation for pangalay dancing that manifests within local cultural contexts. The workshop will include a vital lecture component to bring participants into a better understanding of what the “people of Sug” aesthetically strive for in performing the movement motifs of pangalay dancing. Please join us for this enlightening community event by registering here at EventBrite! IMPORTANT NOTE: Prior to entering the International Hotel Manilatown Center all attendees will have to show proof of full vaccination Desiree Quintero (PhD) is a lecturer with Leeward Community College on Oahu, Hawaiʻi, in the Asian/Philippine Studies Program and she has lectured in the dance program at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa campus. As an Ethnochoreologist, Desiree specializes in dances found in the Philippines and Malaysia. Desiree was awarded a research fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council, NYC, which made it possible for her to conduct six months of additional fieldwork in the Philippines and in Malaysia in 2019. Prior to that time, Desiree alternated between residing in Kuala Lumpur and Sabah, Malaysia, as well as in the northern Philippines during her doctoral work from 2011-2016. Her research and dance practice closely align with “movement as culture,” particularly among maritime peoples in Southeast Asia. Kommunity Kultura has been made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grants for the Arts and The California Endowment. Funding for this program has also been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan of 2021. And for more information about Kommunity Kultura or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please email us at [email protected].