Star Muranko/Co.Erasga

Alvin Tolentino and Starr Muranko’s creative, collaborative efforts and friendship span two decades. This choreographic ode explores the question of home, both physically and metaphorically, and our relationship to the land we inhabit. Memory serves as a guiding force, shaping the choreography with ritualistic precision. It depicts how people live off the land, from tilling soil and planting seeds to harvesting crops and sustaining their lives.

Choreographer: Starr Muranko

Starr Muranko is a dancer, choreographer, and Co-Artistic Director of Raven Spirit Dance. Her work explores embodied storytelling and ancestral connections to land, shared both locally and internationally. Currently Artist-in-Residence at Ballet BC, she honours her Omushkegowuk Cree (Moose Cree), French, and German ancestry through her performances, research, and collaborations.

Performer: Alvin Erasga Tolentino

Filipino Canadian contemporary dancer and choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino has contributed three decades to the performing arts. He founded Coast Salish-based dance company Co.ERASGA, which is now in its 26th season. His choreographic works explore identity, redress, gender, hybridity, climate action and cross-cultural collaborations. As an active contributor to the arts, he performs, directs, mentors, consults, curates, and produces.

Composer: Edgardo Moreno

Edgardo Moreno is a Canadian- Chilean composer based in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been commissioned for projects in Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Sweden, Norway, Argentina, Colombia, England and USA. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance choreographers and artists including Penny Couchie, Justin Manyfingers, Alejandro Ronceria, Allen Kaeja, Karen Kaeja, Olga Barrios, Tara Butler, Lilia Leon, Norma Araiza, Rulan Tangen, Starr Muranko, Tasha Faye Evans, Jeanette Kotowich, Carlos Rivera.In 2024 Edgardo was awarded a Dora award for his sound design and music for Diana Lopez's choreography Nomada.

Tory Ip – Lighting Designer & Technical Director
A graduate from UBC’s Theatre Production and Design program, Tory has had the opportunity to work with different theatre companies around Vancouver, including The Firehall Arts Centre in the Downtown Eastside, the Revue Stage on Granville Island, The Metro Theatre in South Vancouver, and even UBC’s Chan Shun Concert Hall as a lighting technician. Tory is elated to once again work with Company Erasga Dance, as well as Raven Spirit Dance’s Starr Muranko and Michelle Olson, and The Dancer’s of Damelahamid’s Margaret Grenier for the Vancouver Premier of Eternal Gestures at the Scotia Dance Centre as their Lighting Designer and Technical Director!