BROWN MADONNA: Movement Workshop

MOVEMENT WORKSHOP  July 8, 2026  6:30–8:30 p.m.
WITH  Ea Torrado (Daloy Dance Company)
LANGUAGE  The workshop will be held in English 
ENTRY  Recommended donation to the workshop instructor: 10–20 EUR 
ACCESS  SAVVY is wheelchair accessible

PARTICIPATION The workshop is open to everyone, but space is limited. If you’re interested in joining us, please send an email with the subject line “Brown Madonna” toworkshop@savvy-contemporary.com. Participants are advised to wear comfortable, movement-friendly clothing. No prior dance or movement experience is required.

Following her Berlin premiere at Sophiensæle, Filipino choreographer, performer, and mindfulness meditation coach Ea Torrado invites you to a workshop guiding participants through the artist’s somatic movement practice that formed the basis of 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 embodies 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 the self, the other, and the forces we carry. Participants engage in guided improvisational exercises using Daloy Movement to access depth, responsiveness, and imagination. This workshop slows the body into presence and connection, creating space to reimagine identity and how we can attune our bodies to become more in harmony with our environment.

Ea Torrado is a queer-identifying choreographer, performer, and educator whose work spans dance theater, 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.