10/07/2025
TAXI Theater turns 9 today. ๐
My journey in theater began in PETA, where I learned that theater is never just what happens on stage โ itโs what happens around it and after it. That ethos โ of linking art with lived realities โ became part of my DNA.
Years later, I found myself extending that spirit into new terrain: the sensory dimension โ where taste, touch, sound, and smell become tools for connection, care, and imagination.
On October 7, 2016, I launched TAXI (Theater. Applied. eXperiential. Immersive.) โ first as a platform, then as a living practice. It became a vehicle for collaboration across disciplines, a space to reimagine how stories can be co-authored through presence and participation.
Over time, TAXI grew from a series of projects into an ecosystem โ an ever-evolving inquiry into how we stay alive to each other in a world that keeps fragmenting. Along the way, through collaborations, residencies, and encounters, pieces of a puzzle began to form. After years of reflection, a picture started to emerge โ a set of interwoven practices that now guide TAXIโs constellation.
What I see now is not an organization, but a constellation โ people, places, and processes connected by shared sensibility. From these constellations surfaced three living practices:
๐ฟ CSAW / Kalik(h)asan (Creative Sensory Attunement Workshop)
The way of training โ cultivating awe, presence, and material agency. Awakening the senses, re-grounding communities.
๐ RSD / Dramatuhiya ng Buklurang Pandama (Relational Sensory Dramaturgy)
The way of making โ crafting performances through sensory montage, where touch, sound, smell, and silence shape the structure of relation.
โจ Talangkas (Constellatory Scoring)
The way of composing โ a navigational method that maps connection through fragments and resonances rather than linear lines, tracing how meaning moves between people, senses, and events.
Together, these form the ecosystem that continues what TAXI has always stood for โ transforming social connection into sensory architecture, and community into a choreography of care.
Something is revving quietly again โ slow, steady, alive.
And Iโm grateful to everyone who has shared this road with me.
Hereโs to the next intersection.
