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TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to announce a new work “Dead Stars Still Shine” – choreography by Paz Tanjuaquio, music/sound by Todd B. Richmond, digital artist Onome Ekeh, poetry by Luis H. Francia, and dancer Chia-Ying Kao.
Inspired by “Dead Stars,” a short story written in 1925 by Paz Benitez-Marquez, one of the first female literary figures of English literature in the Philippines, the work centers on the idea that lights from dead stars still shine and create a vibrant luminous atmosphere light years away. For Tanjuaquio, these stars can be seen as a metaphor for both lives lost and a loss of culture that still resonates in our communities and within our bodies.
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