Jacob Dominguez: Maganito
A cultural project dedicated to preserving and showcasing the traditional Indigenous ritual dances of the Tagalog people. These dances, which encompass rain invocation, healing, and worship, represent a deep connection to nature and spirituality, offering a glimpse into the Tagalog's rich heritage and beliefs.
“Maganito” begins the possibility of a transmissible Tagalog neo-traditional spiritual and communal ritual combining spirituality with dance. In a post-colonial society such as the Philippines, glimmers of Indigenous practices remain within Catholicized folk practices. Using surviving practices learned from Southern Tagalog culture-bearers and recorded descriptions of Tagalog rituals by Spaniards, this performance will combine these with similar practices found across Philippine cultures to create not just a piece but a healing ritual.
Saturday, November 19th 2023
2:00 - 4:00PM
CAST SF
447 Minna St.
San Francisco, CA
Meet Jacob Dominguez
Jacob Dominguez
a queer migrant and diasporic traditional Southeast Asian performing artist bridging transnational histories through cultural work. Their traditional learning spans both Philippine and Indonesian traditional movement and musical arts, learning directly from firsthand culture bearers of the region. Through cultural immersion with teachers in Southeast Asia and community work among the diasporic Filipinx community in the US, Jacob hopes to weave past and present towards a pre-Philippine and post-colonial Asian identity. Focusing on colonial resistance and empowerment through cultural work, they hope to share knowledge across Asia and the Asian diaspora.