July

JULY

02 - 04
WI-FI: INDEPENDENT CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL 5
The CCP and Choreographers’ Network presents a Festival of Independent Contemporary Dance featuring; showcases, master classes, workshops, mini-conference on “Asian Contemporary Dance Perspectives”,  the Choreographers Competition for solo and duet,  and Dance Video Competition.
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) / Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino Lobby (CCP Little Theater Lobby) / Tanghalang Manuel Conde (CCP Dream Theater) CCP Conference Room /other CCP’s Alternative venues

22 June - 04 July
THE VIRGIN LABFEST VI
Untried, Untested, Unstaged Plays
A festival of new, unpublished, unstaged works by Philippine playwrights.

This is the sixth year of the Virgin Labfest. The project showcases a harvest of new plays. The project will be a two weekend run of new plays.
On its 6th year, the project is an annual joint partnership of the Writer’s Bloc, Tanghalang Pilipino and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It aims to showcase a crop of new short/one act plays in full productions. In addition, there will be staged readings of full length works and Fragments site-specific excerpts of new works. While many of these playwrights are young and have provided new voices in Philippine theater, some of the participants are seasoned and veteran playwrights and dramatists who have written new works heretofore unpublished or unstaged.  Furthermore, the 6th Virgin Labfest has opened its doors to other entries from key regions in the country, as well as several countries abroad. The project hopes to stage their works with the aim of establishing new paths in the field.
The Virgin Labfest seeks to explore new directions in contemporary Philippine Theater.  The program’s avid encouragement to develop new and exciting, sometimes risky ideas and concepts into full productions is becoming its identifying mark in the Philippine Theater calendar.

VIRGIN LABFEST VI WORKS
New Works: Ondoy by Remi Velasco;  Higit Pa Dito by Allan Lopez;  Balunbalunan, Bingibingihan by Debbie Ann Tan; Sa Package Counter by Isa Borlaza;  Bakit Wala Nang Nagtatagpo sa Philcoa Oberpas by Carlo Garcia;  Matyag by U.Z. Eliserio, Maynard Manansala & Chuckberry Pasinal; Suor Clara by Floy Quintos;  Collector’s Item by Juliene Mendoza;  Carmi Martin by Dennis Teodosio;  Huling Habilin ng Sirena by Layeta Bucoy;  A Fistful of Sand by Arlo De Guzman; and  Isagani by Alexis Dorola. Virgin Labfest 5 Revisited: Doc Resureccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan by Layeta Bucoy; Isang Araw sa Peryahan by Nicolas Pichay; and Boy – Girl ang Gelpren ni Mommy by Shelfa Alojamiento.

Download the festival schedule here.
22 June - 04 July 2010
Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio Theater)

09 - 18
CINEMALAYA:  Philippine Independent Film Festival 2010
The CINEMALAYA Philippine Independent Film Festival .An annual project of the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Econolink Investments Inc., it seeks to discover, encourage and honor the cinematic works of Filipino filmmakers that boldly articulate and freely interpret the Filipino experience with fresh insight and artistic integrity.
Various CCP venues

23 July - 22 August
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “CATS: NOW AND FOREVER”
(Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Concertus and All Youth Channels in association with The Really Useful Company Asia Pacific.)
CATS boasts an international entourage of 53 people including cast, crew and a live band which plays offstage throughout the two and a half hour performance.
A unique and inspirational musical. Is based on the book of poems Old Possums Book of Practical CATS, written by T. S. Eliot and first published in 1939. With a little adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber used Eliot’s poems as Iyrics and set them to music to create the musical. The inclusion of elements from Eliot’s other unpublished writings brought to life the glamour cat Grizabella, who provided the pivotal storyline for the musical.
CATS tells the imaginative tale of a tribe of Jellicle CATS as they gather together for the annual Jellicle Ball, and one by one tell their stories for the entertainment of Old Deuteronomy who must choose one of the CATS to journey to the Heavyside Layer to be ‘reborn’ into a new life.
23, 27-30 July 2010 at 8:00 P.M. / 03-06, 10-13, 17-20 August 2010 at 8:00 P.M. / 24 & 31 July 2010 at 3:00 P.M. & 8:00 P.M. / 07, 14 & 21 August 2010 at 3:00 P.M. & 8:00 P.M. / 25 July 2010 at 2:30 P.M. & 7:30 P.M. / 01, 08, 15 & 22 August 2010 at 2:30 P.M. & 7:30 P.M.
Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater)