Filipino DJ Defends National Title at Red Bull Thre3style 2015

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DJ Carlo Atendido was declared back-to-back champion at the Red Bull Thre3style National Finals.
With his smooth moves and his winning party set, DJ Carlo brought the house last June 27! He will be representing the country for the second time around at the Thre3style World Finals in Tokyo, Japan later this year!

The audience screamed when he played the part of Kanye West’s infamous 2011 Grammy acceptance speech that went something like “Everybody wanted to know what I would do if I didn’t win… I guess we’ll never know.”

The premium Energy Drink known all around the world that virtually gives you wings by vitalizing body and mind, annually sponsors the Red Bull Thre3style to search for the best DJ in the world. It pits the world’s best DJs in a competition that values technical skill as much as the ability to thrill a dancefloor. Competitors are judged on the dual platforms of technical ability and crowd reaction, and are given just 15 minutes each to prove that they’re the best in the room. Judges work to a strict criteria that also marks DJs on their originality in song choices, confidence performing and mixing prowess.

The Red Bull Thre3style World DJ Championships 2015 will be held this time in Tokyo, Japan. Be sure to wish DJ Carlo the best of luck to bring home the top prize this year.

Below is the official press release from the organizers of the Red Bull Thre3style Philippine Finals:

Red Turnip Theater Opens New Season With ‘Musical’ Play “33 Variations”

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33 Variations by Moises Kaufman is a musical play about the story of renowned musicologist Katherine Brandt. A mother coming to terms with her daughter. A composer coming to terms with his genius. It is a story of mothers and daughters and the legacies we long to leave behind.

The plot sets a fraught mother-daughter relationship to late music by Beethoven's “Diabelli” Variations, a piano work that riffs daringly and expansively on a seemingly pedestrian waltz written by the Viennese music publisher Anton Diabelli.

It is a sort of cultural-metaphysical detective story somewhere between a biographical psychodrama and a time-traveling, serious playfulness. The play moves between past and present, as Katherine pursues her sleuthing among a collection of manuscripts in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany.

The play opens on July 24 and runs weekends until August 23 at Whitespace, Makati. Jenny Jamora, theater actress and Red Turnip's Theater co-founder,  also makes her directorial debut here.

Below is the official press release of Red Turnip Theater's new third season opener:

Manila Improv Festival 2015 To Be Held On July 2-12

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Silly People’s Improv Theatre (SPIT) is the country’s premiere improvisational theatre group known for their smart and incisive brand of comedy. Considered as one of the best improv comedy troupes in Asia, SPIT has had almost a thousand performances in the last decade to both local and international audiences whose combined numbers easily run up to the thousand. SPIT has represented the Philippines in the Los Angeles, Beijing and Hong Kong Comedy Festivals, and the Improv Festivals in New York and Chicago, and more recently, the Amsterdam Improv Festival in January of this year.

Improvisational theatre is a form of theatre where scenes are co-created by the audience and the actors in real time, without the benefit of a script or prior rehearsals for the performers. Because of this method, watching an improvised theatre show is more akin to performance art due to its non-conventional approach. 

This year, Manila International Improv Festival 2015 is happening on July 2-12, 2015. This performance art festival is a partnership with two prominent Philippine institutions. Silliman University in Dumaguete will host our Tropical Improv Camp from July 2-5, and the Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA) will be our partner venue where all theatre performances will be held on July 8-12, 2015.