Efren Pamilacan

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WORKS


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GENESIS
Co-Director
2023 &#124; Artshouse
Community gathering to explore the history, culture and aspirations of the local ballroom scene, culminating in a night of fierce sounds and dramatic movement. The work explores how we can meaningfully bring ballroom and voguing to Australia – thoughtfully and carefully, at a time of hypervisiblity and associated complexities for trans people. Local and international trailblazers deeply explore modes of care for the community to present a vogue ball honouring family at its forefront.  
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Δ (CHANGE FROM AOTEAROA): ARCHIPELAGO
Co-Curator


2023 &#124; Dancehouse, Chunky Move and Basement Theatre
Bridging the islands of Te moana nui a Kiwa (the Great Sea of Kiwa / the Pacific Ocean) and so-called “Australia” in real-time with Chunky Move’s 2023 Choreolab participants thumping it out at Dancehouse. We unite digitally with the party at Basement Theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau in a global live-streamed nightclub curated by our guests from Aotearoa as part of FRAME. It is a celebration and reclamation of our bodies, empowered by the lived experience of street-born dances. CONJAH (Jahra Wasasala/Ooshcon) and Jaycee Iman guide audiences, artists, and communities as we untangle the relationship between the contemporary dance canon and street-born forms from Black, Brown and Queer people.


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CITY SESSIONSFounder &#124; Creative Producer
2012 - Current &#124; Various Locations
A public activation that creates an engaging environment showcasing the diverse street dance communities that give our city vibrance all year round. An initiative to promote Australia's street dance culture through a large scale crowd judged freestyle dance battle held in public spaces. Over 15 iterations across 8 years in spaces such as Federation Square, Art Centre Melbourne, Campbell Arcade, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne Central and University of Kent (UK).
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KITH
Director &#124; Producer &#124; Choreographer
2019 &#124; Due West Festival

A performance piece crafted by the next generation of creative voices, developed collectively by emerging hip hop dancers from local non-profit organisation L2R Dance. Through the piece, the performers explored the rhythmic exchange between movement and music in a showcase that celebrates the many cultural communities coexisting in Melbourne’s West.


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BATTLE MASSIVECreative producer
2019 &#124; Dance Massive &#124; Art Centre Melbourne

Dance Massive’s flagship public event, BATTLE MASSIVE created an engaging environment showcasing the diverse street dance communities that give our city vibrance all year round. Partnering with local dance communities including Brothers in Arms, Metaphysical Groove, Kiki House of Devine, Burn City Krump and Young Masters, to co-curate the event, mixing the traditional “Battle” format with a series of performances that show each community in their truest form.


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9DIMES: You + Universe&#38;nbsp;
 Co-Director &#124; Co-Producer &#124; Choreographer
2018 &#124; Playhouse Theatre
Taking audiences on an intimate journey to the outer
edges of the universe and back again, 9DIMES fuses urban and contemporary dance
performed by a cast of multicultural dancers, holographic 3D overlays and a
mind-expanding soundtrack. Putting relationships, identity and mortality under
the microscope, 9Dimes: You + The Universe aims to refract the poetry of
everyday living through the lens of space-time theory.


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Factory Reset
Co-Director &#124; Co-Producer&#38;nbsp;
2015 &#124; Big West festival
Fusing a multitude of contemporary urban mediums including live electronic music, projection-design and various hiphop dance styles, Factory Reset explores the historical role of industrial development -- mass migration, aesthetic significance, relationships between man and industry -- in forging the dynamic and diverse communities of Melbourne's west.
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		<excerpt>WORKS    Image by Laura Du Vè GENESIS Co-Director 2023 &#124; Artshouse Community gathering to explore the history, culture and aspirations of the local ballroom...</excerpt>

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OngoingDance Crew: member of Jigsaw Sneakers

Role: Co-founder/Artistic director - Cypher Culture
Role: Program manager - Dancehouse
Role: Director - 9DIMES dance companyRole: Independent producer (Street dance)

Member: Asian Producers Platform
2024
Award: Green Room Award - GENESIS -&#38;nbsp;Contribution to Sector and Community 
Role: Program manager - DancehouseProject: City Sessions - State Library Victoria
Grant: International Engagement Fund - Creative Australia - Street dance research&#38;nbsp;


2023
Development: Street dance commission - Negentropic - Dancehouse 
Residence: Bowery Theatre AIR - Negentropic&#38;nbsp;
Project: World+ - Next Wave - Mentor
Residence: Bluestone Church Arts Space - Maribyrnong Council Arts and Culture
Program: Asian Producers Platform (Thailand) - Attendee/Member
Project: Δ (Change from Aotearoa) - Frame Festival - Curator
Project: Cypher Culture takeover - State Library Victoria - Creative producer
Project: GENESIS Lab pt.2 - Artshouse - Artist/Facilitator
Project: City Sessions x Sorbaes - Arts Centre Melbourne - Creative producer
Grant: Creative Ventures Program - Cypher Culture - Creative Victoria

2022
Grant:&#38;nbsp;Internationale Tanzmesse NRW - Australia Council
Project: City Sessions: 10yr Anniversary - Live at the Bowl - Curator &#38;amp; Producer
 
Program: Emerging Choreographers Program - Dancehouse - MentorRole: Youth Arts &#38;amp; Community Cultural Development Coordinator - L2R Dance
Residence:&#38;nbsp;RESIDENCE - Footscray Community Arts Centre
Grant: Unlocking Capacity - VIPI - Theatre Network Australia&#38;nbsp;
2021
Project: City Sessions - Live at the Bowl - Lead Artist &#38;amp; Producer
Program: Makeshift Publics - Artshouse - Artist
Program: Emerging Choreographers Program - Dancehouse - Mentor
Grant: City of Melbourne Arts Grant - City Sessions


2020

Project: Street Dance Roundtable Vol.2 - Ausdance VIC &#38;amp; TNA - Producer / Moderator
Project: Street Dance Roundtable Vol.1 - Ausdance VIC &#38;amp; TNA - Producer / Moderator
Performance: Are you ready? - AsiaTopa - Local Dance CollaboratorProject: Signal Summer Cypher - MPavilion - Producer&#38;nbsp;
Program: VIPI Mentorship - Theatre Network Australia

2019
Residence: Counterbalance - Be Bold AIR at Bowery TheatreDevelopment: Counterbalance - Next Wave - Co-Director / Co-ProducerRole: Youth Arts &#38;amp; Community Cultural Development Coordinator - L2RProject: Cypher Culture presents Battle Massive - Dance Massive - Producer Project: WAVEY - Dancehouse - Producer / Director
Project: Housewarming Ball - House of Dévine - Producer
Project: KITH - Due West Festival - Director/Producer
Grant: City of Melbourne Arts Grant - City Sessions

 
2018Education: Masters in Public Art w/ Distinction (RMIT)Project: 9DIMES - Playhouse Theatre - Co-Producer/Co-Director/ChoreographerProject: City Sessions - bOing! Festival (UK) - ProducerResidence: 9DIMES - AIR at Bundanon Trust Event: Cypher Culture - Producer

 
2017Grant: Australia Council for "Cypher Culture"Development: 9DIMES performance 

 
2016Event: Nice: Street Dance Festival - ProducerGrant: City of Melbourne Arts Grant - Nice: Street Dance Festival

 
2015Project: Factory Reset - Big West Festival - Director/ProducerGrant: VicArts Grant for Factory ResetEvent: HipHop4Hope Global Dance Session - Producer - Manila, Philippines

 
2014Award: Peter McPhee Student Award for MIXMIX PhilippinesProject: City Sessions Grand Finale - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.4 Invitational Street Run - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.3 Campbell Arcade - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.2 Street Run - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.1 Federation Square - ProducerProject: City of Melbourne Arts Grant - City Sessions

 
2013Project: City Sessions Grand Finale - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.4 x Pyramid Jam - ProducerProject: Private Dances 2 (Nat Cursio Co.) - DancerProject: City Sessions Vol.3 Street Run - ProducerProject: Deviate - Producer/Event ManagerProject: City Sessions Vol.2 - ProducerProject: City Sessions Vol.1 - ProducerGrant: City of Melbourne Arts Grant - City Sessions

 
2012Education: Emerging Cultural Leaders Alumni - Footscray Community Arts Centre

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	Efren Pamilacan is a dance artist and independent producer of Filipino ancestry, a settler on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. His work crosses cultural and social spheres intersecting between hip-hop culture, underground dance forms and the contemporary arts sector; and aims to create space for new dance communities to thrive.

As a dancer and dance maker, Efren is a member of the Jigsaw Sneakers collective and founder of City Sessions street dance battle. As a cultural leader, Efren supports independent artists and collectives as the artistic director of Cypher Culture - a cultural arts organisation empowering street dance and its communities.


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EFREN 
PAMILACAN

BIO

CV

WORKS

CONTACT
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation where I work and reside as a settler. And pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.Images
1. Archipelago
Image by Namchops2. 9DIMES
Image by Paul Huynh3.City Sessions Image by Yoav Lester 


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