Mainstage Dance Concert
November 14-23, 2025
*Pre-Show Chats at 6:45pm before Saturday performances
- Friday, Nov. 14 at 7:30pm
- Saturday, Nov. 15 at 7:30pm*
- Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30pm
- Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7:30pm*
- Sunday, Nov. 23 at 2:00pm *pre-show chat 11/15 & 11/22 at 6:45pm
Mainstage Production Ticket Prices
Regularly Priced Tickets:
$9 UHM Student with valid UHM ID
$15 Non-UHM Student/Youth
$22 UH Faculty/Staff, Military, Senior
$25 Regular (Adult)
“Throwback Saturday” November 15, 2025 performance only – prices are from the good ol’ days:
$6 UHM Student
$11 Other Discount Groups
$15 Regular (Adult)
Dancing in the Diaspora
Created and Directed by Dr. J. Lorenzo Perillo
Assistant Director: Emmanuel Mante
Artistic Collaborators: Mary Chris (Mycs) Villoso, Von Ace Asilo, Angela Sebastian, Ron Querian, Lydia Querian, Manarii Gauthier, Nalini Gauthier, and Iris Viacrusis
Dancing in the Diaspora delves into the interconnected lives of Filipinos maneuvering the waters of belonging and exclusion in Hawai‘i and beyond. The original Filipino cultural production is a collaboration between UHM’s Dance Program and the Center for Philippine Studies (CPS) to unearth the dynamic powers of dancing, identity, healing, and mobilizing community. This compelling, high-energy live performance interweaves cultural storytelling with dynamic Hip-hop, street dance, contemporary, Filipino Indigenous, and ‘Ori Tahiti choreographies accompanied by live kulintang and soulful Tahitian music. This production celebrates the 50th anniversary of CPS, established in 1975 by an Act of the Hawai‘i State Legislature to recognize the contributions of Filipinos to Hawai‘i, and is now the most developed center of its kind in the diaspora.
Written and Directed by Dr. J. Lorenzo Perillo, Associate Professor and Co-Director of CPS, Dancing in the Diaspora assembles acclaimed international and local choreographers Mary Chris (Mycs) Villoso, Von Ace Asilo, Angela Sebastian, Ron Querian and Lydia Querian of House of Gongs, and Manarii Gauthier and Nalini Gauthier, founders of award-winning Tahiti Mana.
This production will be performed in a combination of Filipino, Ilokano, and English languages.
Content Advisories: Profane language, colonization and cultural struggles, loss and grief.
High School Educators interested in School Show Performance dates and costs please contact ktbox@hawaii.edu for more information.
Special mahalo to the East-West Center for providing housing support for guest artists for this project.
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