Amber eons 2026

“ Before my heart has grown dirty” What does a body remember before it was told how to behave? before my heart has grown dirty is a solo dance work exploring queer Filipino identity, colonial inheritance, and the unresolved tension of growing up working-class in the North of England. Moving between confusion and tenderness, the piece asks how we negotiate gender, how embodied knowledge travels across diaspora , and how one body's story might live inside anothers.

Choreography: Ray Roa Alonso

Dancer : Daniel Jeremia Persson

Music played live: Andy Yeo

Photos. Adey

Costume: Erik Annerborn Archive

Supported by: Malmo Stad, Region Skane

“from day to Night 2025”

From Day to Night is a continuous, durational dance installation for families with children aged 0–9. Created by independent dance artist Ray Roa Alonso, the work invites children and their adults into a living, breathing environment where movement, memory, and imagination meet. Inspired by the nostalgia of growing up in the 1980s and 1990s Philippines, the installation transforms space into a flexible, inhabitable world.

Conceived in collaboration with scenographer Alexandra Lewon, the set functions simultaneously as playground and stage, an environment in which performers and audiences are equally invited to move, explore, and reshape what they find.

The work unfolds across three distinct chapters, structured as a repeating day-to-night loop lasting approximately three hours. Each loop moves through shifting moods, energies, and choreographic invitations , from the open activity of morning to the stillness of night. Three dancers rotate through the space across each loop, allowing audiences to enter and leave freely at any point. There is no fixed beginning. There is no fixed end. The work meets whoever is present.

Movement and sound act as subtle, continuous guides , shaping rhythm, mood, and transition while leaving generous room for imagination, spontaneity, and play. The installation is designed for both children and adults: not as separate audiences with separate offerings, but as a shared space in which each finds their own way of being present. Children encounter an environment of embodied play and sensory discovery. Adults encounter an aesthetic and reflective world. These two experiences co-exist within the same hour, the same room, the same score.

Credits
Concept and Choreographic Framework: Ray Roa Alonso
Scenography: Aleksandra Lewon
Co-Creating Dancers: Teresa Schou, Alex Blum, and Ray Roa Alonso
Music and Sound: Alexis Rodríguez Cancino / Blundar Records
Lighting Technician: Madeleine Lindh Hoppe
Graphic Design: Daniel Alonso

Photo: dansehallerne press

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1186684395?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Day to Night: A Playful Journey Through Time is part of KORAL Festival 2025 and is supported by Vesterbropuljen, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, and the William Demant Foundation. The festival is presented in collaboration with Vesterbro Library and Culture House.

RAINBOW/

Regnbuen, 2023.

Join us on an odyssey through the wonders of the Rainbow - to a universe of unexpected contrasts and sensory impressions, where we examine the infinite nuances of our inner rainbows. A thoughtful, dancing installation that invites families and everyone from 0-100 years to experience dance, design and sound. Together we explore the hope of diversity. Five fantastic, dancing costumes created by Henrik Vibskov and choreographed by Ray Roa Alonso will magically transform both body and space, in interaction with a soundscape by Cristian Vogel, which fills the space with electronic sounds.

In Regnbuen we invite the audience on a journey to inner and outer rainbows. We pursue the hope of a diverse future – where people are empowered by respecting and appreciating what makes them different. Be it age, gender, ethnicity, religion, physical ability, sexual orientation, education or national origin. But does this future only exist in our imaginations? How is diversity represented in our society? How do we create a world where diversity can flourish?

With a strong and queer expression, the Rainbow offers a view of new paths. Perhaps not the path that leads to the treasure at the end of the rainbow - but rather a continuous pursuit where we experience glimpses of joy and delight. Roads where we challenge the fear and hatred which again and again set limits to diversity and which displace our inner rainbows. And just as this pursuit never stops, neither do our rainbows.

The public is welcome to go to and from the work and experience the Rainbow at their own pace. You can sit, lie down and stand up along the way.

Concept: MYKA, My Grönholdt & Ray Roa Alonso

Choreographer: Ray Roa Alonso in collaboration with the artistic team

Choreographic consultants: My Grönholdt & Malik Nashad Sharpe

Dancers: My Marie Nilsson, Sophia Mage, Daniel Jeremiah Persson, Escarleth Pozo & Paolo de Venecia Gile

Dancers (stand-in): Madeleine Cole, Jernej Bizjak, Stina Strange Thue & Teresa Fogh Schou

Composer: Cristian Vogel

Costume designer: Henrik Vibskov

Arranged by: Nanna-Karina Schleimann

Press photos: Alexis Rodríguez Cancino

Administration & consultancy: Jens Christian Jensen

Producer MYKA: My Marie Nilsson & Sofia Wickmann

The rainbow is presented in collaboration with SMK – Statens Museum for Art.

Other partners: Betty Nansen Theatre; Holstebro Dansekompagni. Co-produced 2023 by Dansehallerne.

The rainbow is supported by the Statens Kunstfond, the William Demant Foundation, the A. P. Møller Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation.

“Phantom Muse” 2018, 2020

Phantom Muse (2016, 2020) is a hybrid site-specific duet conceived and choreographed by Ray Roa Alonso in collaboration with John Kendall. Moving between performance, visual art, and embodied installation, the work explores transformation, identity, and the body as a shifting archive of memory and imagination.

Set within site-responsive environments, Phantom Muse blurs the boundaries between performer and sculpture, human and otherworldly form. Through choreographed movement, striking visual imagery, and sculptural costume elements, the performers inhabit a liminal space where presence becomes unstable and identities continuously mutate.

The work reflects Alonso’s ongoing artistic interest in fluid realities, queer representation, and the construction of selfhood. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, Phantom Muse invites audiences into a sensory encounter where bodies become vessels for transformation, ambiguity, and speculative futures.

Concept & choreography: Ray Roa Alonso. Supported by: Slots-

og Kulturstyrelsen.

Head Piece: Studio Thinkinghand

Photo by: Jeppe Utzon

Photos at the Met, Manila: Paola Maralit