The young choreographer Donna Miranda found there was no list of current influential trends in Philippine dance. The most recent work she found was an encyclopaedic work in six volumes: an inventory of folk dances, composed in the forties by the then national dance artist Francisca Reyes-Aquino. This reference book is still compulsory reading in physical education classes across the country today. The publication, which sadly enough has never been judged on its artistic merits, has largely determined the image of the Filipino body. In ‘The State of Philippine Dance’, co-produced by deSingel, Miranda wants to fill the gap in research on Philippine dance. She invites ten of the most remarkable surviving Filipino choreographers to each create a solo of a few minutes. She will then edit them into a solo, which she herself will dance.