Led by founder and artistic director Ea Torrado, Daloy will present a layered encounter between film and live contemporary dance. Selected excerpts from Bari-Bari, an environmental dance-film project led by Torrado, will be shown on large screens while Agos, a new work choreographed by younger Daloy dance artists Julienne Depatillo and Sebio Guevara, is performed live.
The performances are presented in connection with the Philippine Pavilion, which places Puerto Galera and Mindoro at the center of an immersive exhibition combining contemporary art, marine biodiversity, Mangyan cultural heritage, Tamaraw conservation, environmental education, and eco-cultural tourism.
Daloy’s performances are co-produced by the D’Aboville Foundation and Demo Farm, Inc., a French-Filipino nonprofit organization that has worked in Mindoro since 2004. Its programs bring together environmental conservation, Indigenous rights, cultural heritage, sustainable agriculture, and responsible tourism.
Where the Project’s Currents Meet
Torrado accepted the invitation from Philippine Pavilion curator Maïa d’Aboville because it brought together several concerns that have long shaped her life and artistic practice: island communities, humanity’s relationship with nature, environmental responsibility, international cultural exchange, and the development of younger Filipino artists.
The invitation also created an opportunity to revisit Bari-Bari, a work developed during Torrado’s experience of living in La Union, and place it in conversation with a new generation of Daloy artists.
The resulting presentation connects three places through water: La Union, where Bari-Bari was created; Mindoro, whose natural and cultural heritage is represented by the Philippine Pavilion; and Yeosu, the Korean maritime city hosting the World Island Fair.
Bari-Bari and Agos are separate works. Each has its own creative process, movement language, and artistic identity.
Agos is neither an adaptation nor a continuation of Bari-Bari. By presenting them simultaneously, Daloy allows audiences to experience two generations and expressions of the company’s ecological practice together.
As the dancers perform Agos live, the landscapes and moving bodies of Bari-Bari create a visual environment around them. The two works do not combine into a single story. Instead, they create a layered encounter between film and live dance, past and present, and the artistic voice of Daloy’s founder and those of its younger choreographers.
About Bari-Bari
Created in 2020–2021, Bari-Bari was exhibited at Konsum in der Kunst at Museum Biberach in Germany and produced for Company Christoph Winkler’s European project Environmental Dances, an international initiative exploring how dance, cultural knowledge and personal experience can make the climate crisis more tangible.
The title comes from an Ilokano expression related to tabi-tabi po in Filipino. Traditionally spoken when passing through places where elemental spirits may dwell, it communicates reverence, respect, and the intention to do no harm.
Bari-Bari was co-directed by Ea Torrado and videographer Chino Neri, with costumes by internationally recognized Filipino visual artist Leeroy New. The project combines movement, interviews, environmental testimony, and images of bodies moving through the land and waters of La Union.
Created while Torrado was living near the sea, the work reflects on plastic pollution, environmental stewardship, cultural memory, and the Philippines’ longstanding traditions of recognizing nature as something living and deserving of respect.
About Agos
Several years later, Agos approaches environmental care through the choreographic voices of Julienne Depatillo and Sebio Guevara.
The new work reflects Torrado and Daloy’s commitment not only to creating performances but also to developing younger Filipino choreographers. Rather than asking them to reproduce the movement or structure of Bari-Bari, Daloy gave Depatillo and Guevara the opportunity to create their own response to contemporary ecological concerns.
Through their distinct choreographic language, the artists explore interconnectedness, community, collective responsibility, and humanity’s relationship with the environment.
Agos stands independently while creating new meanings when experienced alongside Bari-Bari.
A continuing environmental practice
Environmental advocacy is not a new direction for Torrado or Daloy. Throughout its history, the company has created performances examining ecological care, development, displacement, cultural memory, and humanity’s increasing separation from the natural world.
This inquiry can be seen across works including Bari-Bari, Itiklandia, and Tremors. Daloy has used contemporary dance, theatre, film, site-responsive performance, and collaborations with visual artists to make environmental concerns felt through the body.
“Maïa’s invitation brought together many currents in our work,” says Torrado. “There was Mindoro and Yeosu—two island environments connected by water—our continuing environmental advocacy, the history of Bari-Bari in La Union, and the opportunity to support younger choreographers in creating a new work for the environment.”
“For me, this is also about allowing different generations of artists to respond to shared concerns in their own ways. Bari-Bari and Agos remain separate works, but in Yeosu, audiences will experience them together.”
Bringing Mindoro to Yeosu
The Philippine Pavilion presents Mindoro not simply as a destination but as a living island where culture, biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge, and conservation are interconnected.
The exhibition includes contemporary art, Mangyan cultural heritage, marine and wildlife photography, environmental films, educational materials, and stories about the critically endangered Tamaraw and Mindoro’s unique ecosystems.
The D’Aboville Foundation’s partnership with Daloy demonstrates how artists and environmental organizations can work together to bring ecological concerns to wider audiences.
At Yeosu, Daloy offers a contemporary vision of the Philippines: culturally rooted, environmentally conscious, and continually evolving.
Through the meeting of Bari-Bari and Agos, the company asks what islands can teach us about interdependence—and how art and movement can help people imagine a more respectful relationship with one another and the living world.
Performance details
Agos by Daloy Dance Company
September 27–28, 2026
Four official performances
2026 World Island Fair
Yeosu, South Korea
Artistic credits:
Artistic Director
Ea Torrado
Agos Choreographers
Julienne Depatillo
Sebio Guevara
Agos Performing Artists
Brian Abano
Lex
Sebio Guevara
Julienne Depatillo
Ronadae Ruiz
Freyja Kapangyarihan
Iya Desamero
Kaye Salcedo
About Daloy Dance Company
Daloy creates original works addressing cultural, social, political, and environmental concerns while providing Filipino dancers and emerging choreographers with opportunities to develop, perform, and bring their work to local and international audiences.
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