Brown Madonna: Apparition as Embodied Practice        

Following her Berlin premiere at Sophiensæle, Filipino choreographer and performer, and mindfulness meditation coach Ea Torrado invites you to a workshop guiding participants through the artist’s somatic movement practice that formed her performance piece, "Brown Madonna". 

"Brown Madonna" is a living ethnography of a Filipina performer's body, shaped by colonialism, Catholic iconography, and global pop culture. Through movement, live singing, and sound, Torrado performs the figure of the spectacular giver – the mother, the martyr, the saint, the entertainer – and the quiet exhaustion of upholding this role.

Drawing from a brown, queer, postcolonial experience, Daloy Movement is Torrado's practice of embodied resistance and radical joy, developed through her work with Daloy Dance Company. Rather than teaching set choreography, Ea shares how she enters a state of attunement – sensing, listening, and allowing characters to emerge in the body through movement and voice. The workshop approaches the idea of “union” as an embodied process: a negotiation between self, other, and the forces we carry. Participants engage in guided improvisational scores using Daloy Movement to access depth, responsiveness, and imagination. This workshop slows the body into presence and relation, creating space to reimagine identity and how we can attune our body to become more in relation with our environment.

Ea Torrado is a queer-identifying choreographer, performer, and educator whose work moves across dance theatre, ritual performance, community practice, and experimental film. As founder of Daloy Dance Company and creator of Daloy Movement, she forges spaces for embodied resistance, healing, and radical joy across local and international contexts.