America Suroyan Project
Project Title: AMERICA SUROYAN PROJECT
II. Goals and Objectives:
The goals and objectives of this project is categorized into the following formats:
A. Seminar Workshop
- Basic artistic elements of theater – helps the participants to release
creative energies, to become aware of these basic artistic elements of
theater, exploration of one’s imagination and stage business. - Ethnic dances and creative movements – train and transfer to the
participants the basic steps of the tribal dances in Mindanao and skills
in creative movements. - Ethno and creative music – introduce and teach ethnic songs and train
songwriting on theater song production.
B. Play Production - To involve participants in the mounting of theatrical production
through the use of the kambayoka’s “group improvisational process”. - To introduce and explore the Kambayoka Theater Form to the
participants.
C. Institution Building
Help organize young and struggling artists, organizations and students of
culture whose purpose is the promotion of Philippine culture in
establishing the creation of a performing group.
D. Performance - To introduce and promote the dances, rituals and songs of the different
tribal groups in Mindanao through theatrical presentation. - To introduce, promote and popularize the Kambayoka Theater Form.
- To showcase participants talents and skills to a wider community.
- To entertain and educate the Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and the US
residents of the Philippine Culture through cultural presentations of the
dances, songs and rituals of the Tribal Filipinos.