For 52nd anniversary, CCP spotlights resident artists | The Manila Times

Philippine Ballet Theater, one of CCP’s resident companies, joins ‘Mula Sa Tanghalan Naming Tahanan.’ FACEBOOK PHOTO THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) brings to the spotlight in an online video streaming showcase the resident companies who have once tread the halls of the Tanghalang Pambansa.Titled “Mula Sa Tanghalan Naming Tahanan,” the CCP Anniversary Feature brings together the resident companies of the CCP through a selection of their various online performances, put together into a video production. As today they have taken to the screens to bring the stage to wider and wider audiences, art continues whether or not converged in our performance spaces.The Covid-19 pandemic and the government’s quarantine measures since March 2020 have rendered the CCP Main Building, named the Tanghalang Pambansa, indefinitely closed from any audiences and visitors. Thus began a steep learning process of working out the “how’s” of performing in the house, resulting into the remote iterations of several festivals such as the Virgin Labfest and Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. In this process, the Cultural Center has, since April 2020, launched the multi-platform CCP Channel, featuring CCP shows and curated archival documentation from the CCP Digital Archives.Throughout the rest of the month, the CCP…
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