Coincidence or fate? Choreographer Ea Torrado not only shares her birthday with American pop icon Madonna – their biographies also show striking parallels: first steps in classical ballet and modern dance, a strict Catholic upbringing, the constant struggle for self-determination.
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In the solo Brown Madonna, she takes this closeness – and difference – to Madonna as the starting point for a living ethnography. Against the backdrop of the intertwined forces of colonialism, Catholic iconography and global pop culture, Torrado interrogates the ways women in Philippine society are conditioned to be spectacular givers: mothers, martyrs, entertainers, saints.
Together with visual artist and fashion designer Leeroy New, she creates a playful DIY spectacle as a radical search for liberation through embodiment. She addresses the constant work of upholding an idealized self, the overperformance, the dream of making money with one’s own art – and the fatigue, financial precarity, and loneliness that come with it.
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June 2026
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