Co.ERASGA
Sujit Vidya (far left), Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Gabriel Dharmoo ,and Kasandra La China, Passages of Rhythms. Photo by Yasuhiro Okada
Contemporary, progressive, and provocative.
Founded by choreographer and dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino in 2000, Co.ERASGA has a distinguished international reputation with its vision of hybrid dance, diversity, and collaborations with other artistic practices and multimedia.
At the heart of Co.ERASGA is Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino, a Filipino-Canadian artist of remarkable commitment, talent, and energy, whose diverse cultural background and heritage are a driving force for much of the company’s work.
In addressing themes that reflect Tolentino’s individuality, global awareness, and ethnicity, Co.ERASGA exposes and explores issues of cultural identity, gender, hybridity, and community engagements and promotes cross-cultural dialogue.
For more than two decades, Co.ERASGA has created critically acclaimed contemporary dance productions that have toured to Asia, Europe, South America and Canada to over 65 different cities in the last decade. Full-length works include; SOLA, BATO/Stone, MINORI, Volt, She Said, Field, OrienTik/ Portrait, BODYGlass, PARADISE/Paradis, ADAMEVE/Man-Woman, Shadow Machine, EXpose, Unwrapping Culture, Collected, Traces and Still Here, Passages of Rhythms and Offering, during the pandemic.
