DALUPANG, ARCHIBALD A.

SN: 2018-20289
ARTS 1 THR-3
Project Proposal
Musical Production

PROJECT PROPOSAL
Title BAHAY NA BUHÁY

Proponents/ University of the Philippines Dance Company

Collaborators - They will be responsible for the choreography and execution of the dance
parts. The choreography will be contemporary jazz
- They will also be composed of men and women
-
Ripieno Ensemble PH
- AJ Villanueva - conductor
- He will be commissioned to compose the music for the entire production
- He will also be the music director of the show
- Stefanie Quintin-Avila - soprano
- Patricia Poblador - violinist
- Joem Hernandez - cellist
- Owen Castro - flautist
- Danelle Dionisio - clarinetist
- Sara Matsuura - pianist
- It is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the promotion and
performance of new Filipino new music.

Other singers and musicians:

- Michelle Marielle Mariposa – Mezzo soprano
- Ivan Nery – Tenor
- Christopher Arceo – Baritone
- Percussionist – Arvin Olete
- Aleron (all-male choir)

Exile, Inc. Professional Lights and sounds

- They will be in-charge with providing the sound system and lights

Dulaang UP
- Members from DUP will be in-charge of stage management, scheduling,
logistics like script and score printing, pre-, prod, and post-prod
management where they will be getting in touch with the performers for
announcements, reminders, and schedule of rehearsals and performances
- DUP will also be in-charge with rehearsal

UP Diliman College of Fine Arts

- I will collaborate with their college for the conceptualization of the stage
design, appropriate costumes, props, and lighting
 - They will be in-charge with the production the props and costumes and
props of the dancers and singers appropriate for the particular scenes

Emphasis Salon
- This salon will be in-charged with hair and facial styling like make-up and
hair design of the performers

Floy Quintos as director

- He will collaborate with me in writing the script and flow of the show
- His script would include the poetic text that Villanueva will set into music
- He will also be facilitating the general rehearsals of the entire production
- He will work along with DUP for the stage management, logistics and
traffic, and lights.

Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA)

- This office will be the over-all in-charge of the production in terms of
communications with the collaborating performers, college units, logistical
requests and collaterals from other university offices
- They will also be in-charge with communicating with sponsors for funding

Main Idea BAHAY NA BUHÁY will be a musical production that will tell the story of the
collective plight of informal settlers: health, safety, drugs, flood, fire hazard

Objectives This interdisciplinary art project aims to:

of the project 1. Provide an opportunity for artists, dancers, musicians such as singers,
instrumentalists, a composer, and a writer to collaborate in a single project
to celebrate their talent while educating the public on the socioeconomic
and political problems of informal settlers in Metro Manila.
2. Raise awareness on fire prevention and hazards.

Details This musical production will have three movements or main acts (approx. 1 hour in
total). The music shall be contemporary/avant-garde/new music which is atonal in
nature, meaning, the music shall not follow a particular key signature and no
specific tonic center shall be established. The text (poetry) composed by Floy
Quintos will be set into music by Villuanueva. And those songs shall also be set into
atonal music: no chord progression, no sense of tension-resolution and direction,
just pure atonal music that is eerie, chaotic, subjective, abstract and has bits of
pauses and loud accents that is synchronized with the actions of the dancers and
the use of props.

The story shall be told mainly by the music: the instrumentalists, the singers, the
dancers, and a projected display. The dancers and singers will wear different
costumes because their appearance will be staggered in the entire performance,
meaning they will not be singing or dancing the entire time. The dancers shall all
be dressed mainly in black tights and leotards, and a pair of pointe shoes. But they
will be holding or be dressed with props – when grouped together will depict
crowded houses.
Singers:
- Soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, all-male ensemble (20 singers)

Dancers:
- 20 dancers

Lights and production staff

- Lights, projector operator, props crew, costume designers

Musical instruments:
- Piano, violin, flute, clarinet, cello, approx. 100 set of crumpled news papers

Percussion instruments/equipment: empty water drum, timpani, galvanized iron

sheet, crash cymbal, xylophone, 50 wine glasses, 3 pcs of logs

First movement: approx 15 minutes

This movement is an introduction. It will show how people have gradually
communed on a vacant lot and settled permanently.

1. Curtains will rise

2. Lights are turned off, spot lights are only flashed on the instrumentalists
3. Prelude will be played by the instrumentalists
4. There will be long earth-colored textiles on the stage being held by two
persons on both ends of the stage (Center Left and Center Right). These
textiles will be waved deliberately based on the accents on the music.
5. Spotlights will follow 5 dancers, carrying boxes/cartons on top of their
head will slowly come towards the stage (Center-Center) from different
directions; one would even come from the audience, one is coming down
from the curtains on stage, the rest from the exit points of the stage
(Center Left and Center Right)
6. Once the dancers have reached the stage, they will do the duckwalk in all
directions while still carrying the boxes on top of their head.
7. On spotlight, the Soprano and mezzo soprano singers (with lapel
microphones) will start singing their parts while seated with the audience.
8. The dancers will stop and will form a tableaux standing while the Soprano
is singing, accompanied by the piano.
9. On spotlights, the violist, clarinetist, and flautist are also playing their parts
while seated with the audience. They also have lapel microphones
attached to their instruments. They will have their music stand because it’s
not required for them to memorize the entre music of the production –
that also goes for all the singers.
10. Once the soprano has stopped singing, the dancers will resume dancing
and the music will continue playing.
11. Projected images will also accompany the dancing.
12. Curtains fall – end of Act 1
Second movement: approx. 20 minutes
This movement will show how their lives have evolved: forming their own
community, vending elsewhere, and artistically multiplying their population
through time.
1. Curtains rise
2. Instrumentalists will play
3. The tenor and baritone will sing their songs.
4. The projector will display text
5. The tenor and baritone singers will approach the audience and ask them to
recite a line or two repeatedly until the conductor will ask them to stop.
6. While some audience members are reciting the text, the tenor and
baritone sings their parts
7. Dancers will appear, and more will arrive, signaling the coming of a new
generation.
8. One dancer will perform a variation. This dancer will portray the role of a
greedy politician who makes false promises in order to win their votes.
9. But after the variation, the dancer will leave and the other dancers who
are assuming the role of the settlers will be left devastated.
10. Aleron will appear below the stage. Singing an accompanied choral piece
that is also atonal in nature. Multiple parts will be sung in succession and
with no direction at all.
11. Flood will come in the guise of textile fabric. The galvanized iron sheet
12. Some dancers will be suspended in the air through the long textiles. Some
are dancing on stage.
13. Some of the cartons will tumble, some will remain standing.
14. After the flood scene, the dancers will perform a section that shows their
resilience, thus, rebuilding their homes and staying in tact as a community
15. Curtains fall – End of Act 2

Third movement: approx. 25 minutes

This movement shows more boxes are stacked and more boxes have filled the
stage. This is the final movement when the community is facing the challenge of
relocation, “Oplan Tokhang,” flood, and fire.

1. This time, the dancers are scattered among the audience though they are
dancing synchronously while they are in their own places.
2. All the singers and soloists are also among the audience members.
3. One by one, each of them will walk towards the stage.
4. When all dancers and singers are already on stage, a few dancers will
portray the role of police officers and will raid the community.
5. A variation will be made by two dancers, one police and one from the
community.
6. Then the police will exit while the other dancer will remain, but slowly
getting on the ground as if dying. Then the dancer will lie flat on the stage,
and a few dancers will lift his/her body and they will exit.
7. The dancers will perform another number with all the singers singing a
crowd song.
8. The music will taper off along with all the singers, and the dancers will
 slowly halt and will remain standing, bent sideward, with both hands
below the cheek, eyes closed, as if sleeping.
9. Lights will dim, conductor will signal the 50 audience members to rub their
glass wines (with little amount of water in it) creating a singing sound. This
will go on for about 10 seconds.
10. After ten seconds, 100 sets of newspapers will be crumpled and logs will
be banged continuously and is amplified through boom microphones.
11. Stage lights will turn on, and slow orange and yellow lights will slowly grow
from the middle of the stage until it has engulfed the entire stage.
12. Yellow and orange textiles will be paraded in the audience going to the
stage.
13. The dancers will perform another number.
14. All the singers will go down the stage, singing in front of the audience
members.
15. After the final number of the dancers and the singers.
16. All dancers and singers will go back to the stage and will kneel one-by-one.
17. Instrumentalists will stop playing, then the conductor will signal the
selected 50 audience members again to rub their wine glasses.
18. After 20 seconds, curtains fall, the conductor will signal the audience
members to halt the rubbing. Curtains fall. –END-

Expected BAHAY NA BUHÁY will be a non-ticketed show. This will be premiered at the
Outcome University Amphitheater at 6PM, in line with the National Fire Prevention Month.
It may also be staged elsewhere (outside the university) as long as there are
sponsors who will finance the said production.

Visuals (optional) University of the Philippines Diliman – University Amphitheater

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