Leave Your Shoes Outside (LYSO)

In this episode, we speak to live artist and cabaret performer Sam Reynolds (aka Switchboard Sam) about traversing cultures of performance in the East and West, using his pandemic hobby time to actually help people, and serving some Flashdance during the Philippine wet season.

Season 2 of Leave Your Shoes Outside is presented in partnership with The British Council Philippines.

Get yourself a pedicure because Leave Your Shoes Outside is BACK!

This limited digital series about arts and culture in Asia and around the world returns with all-new topics, all-new guests, and all-the-same-hosts you know and love Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan and Gabbi Campomanes!!

For this week’s interview, we talk to actor, director, and teacher Missy Maramara about wearing different hats, being a lady onstage, and the relentless passage of time. 

We also have a special SPECIAL guest, Jodinand Aguillon, to talk about our partner for this season: The British Council Philippines!

So open wide, happy pride, and give our new episode a listen. 

On the SEASON FINALE of Leave Your Shoes Outside we talk to producer and arts manager Chizuru Matsumoto (Kochi) about her background in technical theatre, her current projects as the project manager at the Kochi Museum, and her thoughts on California rolls - is it even sushi?

The Japan Foundation, Manila.
Leave Your Shoes Outside is presented in partnership with The Japan Foundation, Manila.

This week, we talk to curator, arts manager, and Japan Foundation, Asia Center Next Generation Producer Micah Pinto (Manila) about the origins of the all women-led Para sa Sining - jumpstarted by her equally inspiring sister Kerstin Pinto, the value of collaboration, and her very very long engagement... to the arts!

Learn more about Para sa Sining at https://parasasining.com/ or on social media at https://www.facebook.com/parasasining/ or @parasasining.

This week, we talk to independent producer and curator Yi-Kai Kao (Taipei) about the importance of arts managers, Taiwanese revenge time, and getting married in the middle of a pandemic.

Learn more about Thinkers’ Studio at www.tkstheatre.com and catch up with the Taipei arts scene at https://www.artsticket.com.tw/.

This week, we talk to interdisciplinary Filipino-Canadian  artist Jodinand Villaflores Aguillon (Poblacion, Makati City) about his experiences with Canadian retail, how his mother shaped his love for vintage, and why none of his vintage clothes seem to be haunted! You can follow Jodee and his work at Glorious Dias on Instagram @GloriousDias. Note: In the time since we’ve recorded this interview, the Philippines has been affected by a surge of typhoons, leaving many communities still in need of help. To assist in typhoon relief operations, please check out the PHILIPPINE RED CROSS and FOR THE FUTURE. 

In the second part of our interview with dancer and choreographer Takao Kawaguchi (Tokyo), we talk arts, activism, and using his body to construct his body of work. Watch Takao's new piece, "A Perfect Live":  https://youtu.be/csigHN_joow. 

“Leave Your Shoes Outside” is hosted by director and independent producer Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan and playwright-actor-arts manager Gabbi Campomanes.  #LYSO is a limited digital discussion series and podcast all about contemporary arts practice in Asia. This series invites audiences to tune into candid conversations and kamustahans with artists, cultural workers, and friends from independent collectives from all over the world, giving audiences exclusive insights on the complexities of being a contemporary arts practitioner in Asia today. This podcast is presented in partnership with Pineapple Lab and Fringe Creative and supported by The Japan Foundation, Manila.  Tune in every week for new episodes! 

From early 1990s, Kawaguchi self-taught dance and formed ATA Dance before joining Dumb Type in 1996-2008. The turn of the millennium inspired him to go solo, playing with modern-punk musicians/artists including Atsuhiro Ito, Fuyuki Yamakawa and digital guru Daito Manabe. Lately, despite having missed both Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno alive, Kawaguchi has looked in the archives of Butoh to work on The Sick Dancer based on the text of Tatsumi HIjikata (2012) and About Kazuo Ohno--Reliving the Butoh Diva’s Masterpieces (2013) both of which have been touring around the world. His latest creation is Touch of the Other, a performance based on the sociological research on male-to-male sex in public toilets in the 60s by US sociologist Laud Humphreys, and it premiered in January 2016 in Tokyo. Besides that, Kawaguchi was the director of the Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival from 1996 to 99. He translated Derek Jarman’s Chroma into Japanese in 2002. Stay tuned to Part 2 of Episode 1 coming out next week!