
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)

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