“The story is older than my body, my mother’s, my grandmother’s. For years we have been passing it on so that it may live, shift, and circulate. So that it may become larger than its proper measure, always larger than its own in-significance.”

- Trinh T. Minh-ha

Welcome to ‘bumalik,’ a performance installation series of bamboo sculpture, dance, and sound.

‘bumalik,’ the Tagalog word for 'return,’ is a performance installation of dynamic bamboo that centers the profound power of imagined memories as the gateway to returning home. The work, revolving around our sculpture ‘sirkulo,’ re-imagines the relationship between the brown Asian body and environment as sites of trauma, reorientation, then liberating transmutation. Our transformation of ‘sirkulo’ explores the disorientation and reorientation of the peripheral Filipina, shaped by geographical migrant stories of our mothers and our psychological migrations out of and into ourselves.

Please join us on

Friday, December 8 and Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 8p at Green Space LIC.

37-24 24th St Suites 211 + 212, Long Island City, NY 11101

Reserve $20 tickets here.

Choreographic Direction: Marie Lloyd Paspe

Installation Direction: Almasphere // Sabrina Herbosa Reyes and Antonio Giovanni Rivera

Composers & Performers: treya lam and Sugar Vendil

Contributing Choreography & Dancers: Ching-I Chang, Paulina Meneses, Marie Lloyd Paspe, and Sabrina Herbosa Reyes

Producer: Maxine Evangelista

This work was created with support from Creatives Rebuild New York, Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellowship, Gallim Moving Artist Residency, and TAKE ROOT at Green Space LIC.