Congratulations to General Santos City very own contemporary dance group, Teatro Ambahanon who impressed the judges at Showtime, ABS-CBN’s daily talent show to let them win the daily and weekly finals last week (November 14-19, 2011).

Represented by the amazing trio, Julius Lagare, Roy Misoles and Beauty Balaga,  Teatro Ambahanon is the resident dance and theater company of the Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges. RMMCTA is hailed as the Most Outstanding Young Contemporary Dance and Theater Companies of the Philippines of the Mindanao Modern Dance Competition. It’s one of Gensan’ pride, having represented the Philippines in an international contemporary dance festival in Fukuoka, Japan.

Lagare, who also choreographed the piece was adjudged as the Grand Prix winner of the Wifi Body-Cultural Center of the Philippines-Japan Foundation New Choreographer’s Competition in 2008.  Roy Misoles competed as performer in “Portia”, the winning piece in the Mindanao ModernDance Competition. Beauty is a new member of the internationally renown dance company.

Teatro Ambahanon is a laboratory school for contemporary dance. The company has trained many of Gensan’s emerging talents in dance in cluding XB Gensan and the Gensan Contortionists.

By the way, Teatro Ambahanon’s Artistic Director Bing Carino is National Committee on Cultural Education of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.  He and c0-Artistic Director Egai Cadiente have teamed up in numerous instances to give the generals world-class shows and events in General Santos City.

World class talents as only GenSan can produce!!!

Meanwhile enjoy Teatro Ambahanon’s jaw-dropping performance at SHOWTIME in the video below!