Rhosam - Mia

Mia Cabalfin has been a company member and faculty of Airdance Philippines since 2006, where she trains, performs, and choreographs. In July 2008, she participated in the Danceweb Scholarship Programme which was held in Vienna, Austria as part of the Impulstanz International Dance Festival. In that same year, she was also a finalist in the 3rd Wi_Fi Body Independent Contemporary Dance Festival New Choreographers Competition.

She, together with Rhosam Prudenciado Jr., was awarded a spot in the 2012 Artist-in-Residence Program of Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, Japan (June-August 2012). For their residency output, the duo choreographed, directed and performed in their full-length piece entitled "Housewarming". Mia and Sam also participated in Ava Maureen Villanueva's residency output performance for Dancebox Kobe in July 2012, entitled "jn lng sa may knto". In 2013, Mia, together with 3 other members of Airdance, was recently part of a project commissioned by the Japan Foundation entitled "MAU"- where work was choreographed by kabuki grandmaster Kanjuro Fujima and toured throughout Southeast Asia.

Throughout her time in Airdance, Mia has participated in various company productions, festivals, and artistic collaborations. Back in college, she was the president of the Company of Ateneo Dancers, and was recipient of the Dean’s Award for the Arts in Dance.

She has also delved into collaborative projects such as “Promises are Made to Be Broken” with Green Papaya Art Projects. Mia has also done choreography for film – “Ruined Heart” (Pusong Wazak) by Khavn dela Cruz working with actors Tadanobu Asano, Nathalia Acevedo, Elena Kazan and Vim Nadera, as well as choreography for a short film “Maplethorne Syrup” by David Diaz-Abaya.

Her latest solo choreographic adventure is Singap (Gasp), which was presented at the 2018 Neo Filipino at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines in August 2018.

Currently, Mia also manages and teaches Hip Hop Hooray!, a series of hip hop workshops for kids, as well as instructor and trainor at Saddle Row and Physique 57 Manila.

Sam is a freelance performer, choreographer, and teacher. He has been touring different regions in the Philippines to give master classes in his technique style, Linear Fluidity.

He was Artistic Director of Airdance Philippines from 2017 to 2018, and was the former President of Kawilihan-USA Dance Troupe of the University of San Agustin, Iloilo. He is a recipient of “Ani ng Dangal 2010” awarded by Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and NCCA (February 2010).

He is also the recipient of The French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers (Grand Prize) of the Yokohama Dance Collection R 2009 held in Yokohama, Japan on February 5-8, 2009 and the 2008 2nd prize winner of the WiFi Body Festival New Choreographer’s Competition through his piece “Which Way?” In 2007, he competed with UP Dance Company in the 5th Mindanao Modern Dance Competition, TARI 2007 in Malaysia.

Rhosam was a guest artist in the 11th Daegu International Dance Festival in Daegu, South Korea in 2009; studied contemporary dance in Micadanses and Menagerie de Verre in Paris; was granted a residency program under Centre Nationale de la Danse – Hoche, Paris and performed at Theatre Darius Milhaud - Paris, France in the same year. In 2012, he performed at the Mamiya Theatre, St. Louis Center for the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii with House of Dance as they staged Ethnisyncrasies.

Sam and colleague Mia Cabalfin were also awarded the residency program of the Kyoto Arts Center Dance Program 2012 in Kyoto, Japan where their collaboration, “Housewarming” was well regarded. Sam also toured and performed in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines with four other Airdance members in Celebration of the Japan–Asean Dance Collaboration November 4-29,2013.

He joined Dance Dance Asia under the Japan Foundation, and has toured with the project from 2016 to 2018. Since 2019, Rhosam has embarked on a national teaching tour, facilitating his technique workshops on his unique style, which he calls Linear Fluidity. He has formed and managing the collective, LikhaPH.