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Anito – Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective (PH/AU)

Anito – Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective (PH/AU)

Theatre

17 - 18 Oct 2025

Porto

Anito – Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective (PH/AU)

Anito – Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective (PH/AU)

fimp'25 (National Premiere)

Porto Municipal Theatre . Campo Alegre - Porto

17 Oct 21:30 | 18 Oct 17:00

Theatre

17 - 18 Oct 2025

Porto

Anito – Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective (PH/AU)

Anito

For Early Filipinos, like many still today, it is believed that a life force or soul inhabits all entities, animate or inanimate. These spirits are called Anitos. The work Anito, is a future folklore informed by the collective’s ancestry, queer embodiment and diverse history of practice. The work centres on the importance of nature spirits, intuiting them as guides towards imagining possible parallel futures. In the performance, wondrous ecologies emerge from a shifting, fertile landscape crafted by hands and activated by bodies. Megafauna dance deep time. A spectre appears charting the trajectory of humanity and setting it in a reverse s

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60' · For ages 12+ Attention! - Anito contains nudity, haze, loud music and sudden loud noises, abrupt lighting changes, low lights and lights that change colour and intensity. Directed, performed and co-conceived by: Justin Talplacido Shoulder
 Production designer: Matthew Stegh, Justin Talplacido Shoulder  Costume designer: Matthew Stegh, Anthony Aitch, Justin Talplacido Shoulder Sound designer and live score performer: Corin Ileto  
 Performer and co-generator: Eugene Choi 
 Mentor and collaborator : Victoria Hunt   
 Lighting designer and vision developer : Fausto Brusamolino
 Costume design technicians : Brenda Lam, Anthony Aitch, Luna Aquatica   
 Producer : Jason Cross - Insite Arts Special thanks : Marrugeku & Talking Bodies 

 Anito has been supported by: Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative; Create NSW; the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative; managed by Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc.; commissioned by RISING, Sydney Festival and MONA FOMA. Venue partner & creative development supported by: Carriageworks.

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Caption: Anito

Credits: ©Fausto Brusmolino

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