If you’re looking for a dance show that truly speaks through movement and storytelling, A DANCE IN A DAY IN A DANCE is one to watch.
Featuring award-winning works by JM Cabling, this production beautifully reflects the journey of dance artists across different generations — from student artists learning inside the studio to becoming artists carrying their own voice and experiences forward. It opens subtle conversations about teaching, growth, mentorship, and the evolving relationships within dance spaces.
What makes it even more exciting is the cast lineup — artists from different generations of the contemporary dance community sharing one stage. Every cast brings a different kind of energy: rawness, beauty, intensity, freshness, and honesty.
Directed by Mikko Angeles
🗓 MAY 16–31, 2026📍 Doreen Black Box Theater, Areté, Quezon City
🎟 via Mari Dance
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Live a moment with us and witness 7 original works in the Choreography Category and 4 pieces for the Open Style Category.
We’re inviting you to watch, Dance Sutra 2026: Here and Now
April 24, 2026 • 7:30 PM
Guang Ming College, Tagaytay
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Are you ready to discover what it truly means to fully live within a moment?
Join us at Dance Sutra 2026: Here and Now
April 24, 2026 • 7:30 PM
Guang Ming College, Tagaytay
See you there!
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My Pahid Journey🥹
The piece PAHID really started from the question “Why?”. This question became the starting point that helped shape Kuya Evan’s ideas about what he wanted to create. The background of the work is very personal to him, and it follows a narrative based on his own experiences, memories, and reflections about life and change. A big part of the piece also comes from his childhood in Butuan City, where he spent a lot of time with his friends. His kababata or tropa became one of his main sources of inspiration. He drew from those memories and experiences while creating the piece, using them to give more meaning and direction to his work. For him, these experiences were not just memories—they helped shape the piece because he believed that everything has a purpose. The questions in his mind also played an important role. These are questions he wants to understand and find answers to, and they became part of the process of creating PAHID as a reflection of his journey, his past, and his search for meaning. As I went through the whole process, I realized something important. Instead of us simply telling or showing Kuya Evan’s story or identity, what actually happened was different. The piece slowly became a space where our own stories and identities were being expressed. It felt like, in the end, what was being shared was not just his story, but also ours.
CALL FOR ENTRIES | Dance Sutra 2026
A platform for choreographic explorations that dwell within time, examining how movement transforms a single moment.
“What does it mean to fully live within a moment?”
TIME is the central theme of this dance competition, focusing on the experience of fully inhabiting a single moment. Time is approached as a continuous condition in which movement exists, rather than something that allows return or progression.
Participants are invited to explore how the body engages with a moment through presence, sensation, and sustained attention. Through contemporary dance vocabulary, choreographies may examine how a moment expands, deepens, or transforms through duration, repetition, stillness, or physical focus. Rather than narrating a timeline, works are encouraged to dwell within time—revealing how meaning emerges when a moment is fully lived and embodied through movement.
Choreography Category
Exclusive for BPAD Students Only
• Entries may be performed as a solo, duo, or trio.
• The piece should reflect the overall theme.
• Performance duration: 8–10 minutes
• 300-word concept note describing the choreographic work
• 2-minute original movement study submission
Open-Style Category
Exclusive for Non-BPAD Students and Staff
• Entries must consist of 2–3 dancers.
• The piece should reflect the overall theme.
• Performance duration: 3–5 minutes
• 300-word concept note describing the choreographic work
• 1-minute original movement study submission
For interested participants, please scan the QR code below.
Here and Now.
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Every repetition, correction, and progression all led to this moment.
The first and second year students closing the semester together, through the work we’ve been shaping the whole term. Guided by Tr. Max Luna III, this class reflected the discipline, focus, and growth that defined our Horton journey. ✨💃🏻
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One conversation, one application, one brave try.
Sometimes the smallest push leads you exactly where you’re meant to be. ✨
Applications are open — take the leap and dance with us!💃🩰
We are honored to perform for Cavite’s Fashion Congress 2025 conceptualized by Vice Mayor Jacinta Remulla, where we danced alongside Guang Ming Theater Ensemble, Chorus, Ritmo, and Cuerdas. We are even more proud to say that this performance was headed by our GMDP council. ✨
From conceptualizing the pieces, choreographing every movement, and designing and creating our own costumes, we stepped on stage with confidence and pride that this is our craft, our creativity, and our collective passion.
This is GMDP.
This is student artistry in motion.
And this is only the beginning.
Choreographers: Yna Arbiol, Gabriel Montaño, Jenris Bernard Garcia, Sean Theo De Guzman
Dancers: gmdanceproject
SMs: Nicole Geed Edca and Honey Natividad
Costume Design: Martha Laniog, Benz Bareng and costume team
Special thanks to Guang Ming College and to our Artistic Director, Jm Cabling
Wow naman!
Here are some of our favorite warm-up drills before classes!✨
Kakaiba talaga ang GMDP mag-warm up – warm energy, warm hearts, at warm tawa bago sumayaw! 🤩
What about you? Ano favorite warm up mo? Comment down below!
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We’re truly honored to be recognized by @theaterfansmnl for our recent performance of “A Dance in a Day in a Dance.” 💃
Thank you for witnessing our work and capturing the heart of what we do — turning rehearsal tension into riveting dance theater. 🩰❤️
This recognition wouldn’t be possible without the guidance of our mentors from @maridanceph — thank you for not only shaping us inside the studio, but also for encouraging us to grow beyond it. Salamat sa patuloy na paghubog at sa paglabas sa amin para maranasan ang ganitong klaseng exposure and experience. 🙏
Your words remind us why we move, create, and share stories through the body.
Photos by Ceasar Morales
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🗓️October 17-19, 2025
⏱️2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
📍Doreen Black Box Theater, Areté
🎟️₽1800 / ₽1500
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Next week is the last chance to catch 𝘼 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 𝙄𝙉 𝘼 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙄𝙉 𝘼 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 🧡 Our deepest gratitude to our audiences who were able to come see our labor of love on our opening weekend 🚪🗝️
Photos by @jose_rizal
🗓️ October 17-19, 2025
⏰ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
📍Doreen Black Box Theater, Areté
🎟️ ₱1800 / ₱1500
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