JaSMINE oRPILLA X MADRID THEATER

Ilokana/x-American, JASMINE ORPILLA activates her living traditional practices of dance, protective family ritual and music of the Philippine diaspora, within the contemporary yet expiring frame of her own 1st-generation schism from both imperialist history and the oppressive military culture of her childhood. An awarded international performer and composer who also takes space with renown dance, theatre and opera directors on stages worldwide, Jasmine Orpilla's body, voice and vision continues to disrupt the classist status-quo institutions of genre, 'gender,' and racial stereotypes she encounters in those spaces today.