City-Scape

Gian Cruz & Claire Villacorta / Philippines

City-scape is a continuous video, dance, performance collaboration that serves as a language intervention; a substitute for “the escaping city”. Cruz and Villacorta examine the notion of fleeting identities in relation to cities and bodies in relation to their hometown Manila and their respective historicities and contexts to the particular spaces with which they work. Play through an interesting point of view as City-Scape peers through a rare Asian male body (Cruz) through the lens of a female observer (Villacorta) as they play with aesthetics and dance as an act of resistance to transform their identities in light of the global and digital age, a constant transformation and something always in transition.