Latest multimedia dance work by Alleluia Panis, music by Joshua Icban, and media art by Wilfred Galila pays tribute to the lives of the ‘manong’ generation—the first wave of cheap imported Pilipinx laborers (1915s - 1930s) who powered the ever expanding needs of the developing US empire. Inspired by actual experiences of diasporic Pilipinx men and women who migrated or were born in the US before the 1950s, their stories are toldthrough the memory of the fictional character Valentino ‘Baleng’ Pablo.
