https://efren.co Efren Pamilacan Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:02:33 +0000 https://efren.co en http://efren.co/Works Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:02:33 +0000 Efren Pamilacan 355350 WORKS <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/75a595c1619be3efef30bab3594b4d1367731b68dec97999fa0a25449b36c457/NAMCHOPS260222_ON-ON_533.jpg" data-mid="1441965" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by NAMCHOPSON&amp;ON FestivalCurator 2026 | Presented by Fed Square, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Cypher Culture A week long festival celebrating street and club dance cultures. Program included panel talks, City Session, OnStage: street dance presentations, club nights, and the debut of the Street Dance in Focus report. This interation invited THRIXEPT (Thailand) as guest artist collective inititation an ongoing connection between ON&amp;ON and their festival in Bangkok, Bad Vibes.&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/08ebddd0ae96bc4754d22e2227d0b5b4e850613ba96c8d19797f4c3617351008/NAMCHOPS260310_NewNew_005.jpg" data-mid="1441964" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by NAMCHOPSnew newCurator 2026 | Presented by Dancehouse and Cypher Culture An ongoing program of short works in triple-bill form by artists informed by street and club dance forms curated by Efren Pamilacan. 2026 included artists CONJAH, Jorge, and Threading Frames. <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/088aeecdb2c1b755cc517b8dd1e27fbd8cdbc16617db266ea40070b9f0f48061/NAMCHOPS260501_StreetDanceExchange_004.jpg" data-mid="1441963" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by NAMCHOPSThe Street Dance Exchange Lead artist 2025 | The Substation and PYT Fairfield&nbsp; The Street Dance Exchange is a collaboration between The Substation (Western Melbourne) and PYT Fairfield (Western Sydney). Supported by Creative Australia’s Creative Futures Fund, this exchange brought together Efren Pamilacan, Eliam Royalness, Feras Shaheen, Gusta Mara, Jamaica Moana and Troi-Saraih Ilsley with producing partner PYT Fairfield. The Street Dance Exchange builds a foundation for a major new work, sharing the collective and individual experiences from the lead artists and their communities. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5a9e36649127c2c22e7966f9893363f3b8024e209e5f7191e5503d19ffc5b42c/NAMCHOPS250227_AraiAray_077.jpg" data-mid="1441962" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by NAMCHOPS Arai? Aray!Curator 2025 | Asia TOPA From cypher to stage, Arai? Aray! (What? Ouch!) brought the heat from across the Philippines and Thailand. Sister act Miss A + Fateeha (Moro Beats, Philippines) joined up-and-coming singer and songwriter Réjizz (Thailand) in a special night of hip-hop culture at Club 8. Naarm/Melbourne’s street dance community created freestyle cyphers as a call and response to rap, beats and DJing with Subnet (Thailand), and DJ Tha Wzard (Moro Beats, Philippines). <img width="6143" height="4095" width_o="6143" height_o="4095" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/13a383556db735683b9270917dab19f505bf7d65d5bad27e10aa54a2553070c5/Hero-image---GENESIS.jpg" data-mid="1344052" border="0" data-scale="55"/> Image by Laura Du Vè GENESIS Co-Director 2023 | 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. &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/50ffc6ec9a0b3e0877f491e433cfab47833dad3cb8eaaa69df13b1b5feb59282/NAMCHOPS230325_ChangeFromAotearoa_035.jpeg" data-mid="1344053" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by Namchops Δ (CHANGE FROM AOTEAROA): ARCHIPELAGO Co-Curator 2023 | 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. <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a186275d9a8843836b659a584d600587ed64c42eb52352079ff7b2058379a734/City-Sessions-Melbourne-Central-1.JPG" data-mid="858480" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by Yoav Lester. CITY SESSIONSFounder | Creative Producer 2012 - Current | 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). <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0dfdec6749ad7198f698585f05d81b0c6821bb406320577f8aac39c19b38ba2d/KITH_3.jpg" data-mid="858479" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by Shuttermain. KITH Director | Producer | Choreographer 2019 | 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. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c58a429a7baabb500b2e0e3cc1b83e5d49646360e0aee569eddbd393ca7df77e/BattleMassive75.jpg" data-mid="929397" border="0" data-scale="54"/> Image by Shuttermain. BATTLE MASSIVECreative producer 2019 | Dance Massive | 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. <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/db4b4b41d6c417e2c79afeeedb808976440203796ae89417d4c2148d4584d020/IMG_1369.JPG" data-mid="858478" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by Paul Huynh. 9DIMES: You + Universe&nbsp; Co-Director | Co-Producer | Choreographer 2018 | 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. <img width="2560" height="1434" width_o="2560" height_o="1434" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d1626403506b9f7167bfb75ef6e3a25bcf9a66b0c7fa0f8af831ddf75b61f5b5/Screen-Shot-2020-02-04-at-11.59.51-pm.png" data-mid="858523" border="0" data-scale="55"/>Image by Vanessa Napiza. Factory Reset Co-Director | Co-Producer&nbsp; 2015 | 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.  WORKS Image by NAMCHOPSON&amp;ON FestivalCurator 2026 | Presented by Fed Square, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Cypher Culture A week long festival celebrating street... http://efren.co/CV Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:19:59 +0000 Efren Pamilacan 355346 CV OngoingDance collective: member of Jigsaw Sneakers Role: Co-founder/Artistic director - Cypher Culture Role: Creative Producer - Dancehouse Role: Director - 9DIMES dance companyRole: Independent producer (Street dance) Member: Asian Producers Platform2026 Curator: ON&amp;ON Festival - Fed Square and Arts Centre Melbourne Curator: new new - Dancehouse Role: Creative Producer - Dancehouse 2025 Curator: City Sessions - Fed Square Curator: Arai? Aray! - Club 8 - Asia TOPA Producer: INAMO - Club 8 - Asia TOPA Lead Artist: Street Dance Exchange - The Substation &amp; PYT Fairfield&nbsp; Advisor: Dance - The Substation 2024 Award: Green Room Award - GENESIS -&nbsp;Contribution to Sector and Community Role: Program manager - DancehouseProject: City Sessions - State Library Victoria Grant: International Engagement Fund - Creative Australia - Street dance research&nbsp; 2023 Development: Street dance commission - Negentropic - Dancehouse Residence: Bowery Theatre AIR - Negentropic&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:&nbsp;Internationale Tanzmesse NRW - Australia Council Project: City Sessions: 10yr Anniversary - Live at the Bowl - Curator &amp; Producer Program: Emerging Choreographers Program - Dancehouse - MentorRole: Youth Arts &amp; Community Cultural Development Coordinator - L2R Dance Residence:&nbsp;RESIDENCE - Footscray Community Arts Centre Grant: Unlocking Capacity - VIPI - Theatre Network Australia&nbsp; 2021 Project: City Sessions - Live at the Bowl - Lead Artist &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 &amp; TNA - Producer / Moderator Project: Street Dance Roundtable Vol.1 - Ausdance VIC &amp; TNA - Producer / Moderator Performance: Are you ready? - AsiaTopa - Local Dance CollaboratorProject: Signal Summer Cypher - MPavilion - Producer&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 &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 CV OngoingDance collective: member of Jigsaw Sneakers Role: Co-founder/Artistic director - Cypher Culture Role: Creative Producer - Dancehouse Role: Director -... http://efren.co/Bio Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:35:44 +0000 Efren Pamilacan 355207 <img width="1638" height="2048" width_o="1638" height_o="2048" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/98984d80c30b538527b700b6fe05d4d7094a4f27bc9b22fac38545ee23271af9/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-24-at-12.51.36.jpeg" data-mid="1441961" border="0" /> Efren Pamilacan is a dance artist and independent producer of Filipino ancestry, a settler on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation (Melbourne, Australia). 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.  Efren Pamilacan is a dance artist and independent producer of Filipino ancestry, a settler on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation (Melbourne, Australia). His... http://efren.co/Home-Page Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 Efren Pamilacan 355205 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 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...