1. Leonor Luna Orosa-Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance, who was known for breaking tradition within dance.
23 Facts About Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco played the piano, drew art, designed scenery and costumes, sculpted, acted, directed, danced and choreographed.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco died on July 15,2005, of cardiac arrest following a cerebro-vascular accident at the age of 87.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was born on July 24,1917, in Jolo, Sulu.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was a Filipino national artist in creative dance.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco played the piano, drew art, designed scenery and costumes, sculpted, acted, directed, danced and choreographed.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco died on July 15,2005, of cardiac arrest following a cerebro-vascular accident at the age of 87.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco's parents were Sixto Orosa and Severina Luna, both physicians who graduated from the University of the Philippines.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was married to Benjamin Goquinco and had three children: Benjamin, Jr.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco moved to Manila and entered the Philippine Women's University where she took an ACS course.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco took professional and teacher courses at the Ballet de Monte Carlo.
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In 1939, Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was the only dancer sent on the first cultural mission to Japan, at the age of 19.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco produced Circling the Globe and Dance Panorama in the same year.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco created The Elements in 1940, the first ballet choreographed by a Filipino to commissioned music.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco created Sports during the same year, featuring cheerleaders, a tennis match and a basketball game.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco danced at the American Museum of Natural History, Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium, The International House and Rockefeller Plaza, just to name a few.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco founded the Filipinescas Dance Company in 1958, and took it on a world tour in 1961,1962,1964,1966,1968 and 1970.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was a writer, and her articles were published in Dance Magazine, Enciclopedia Della Spettacolo, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Arts of Asia and the Philippine Cultural Foundation.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco wrote Dances of the Emerald Isles and Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore in Dance.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco wrote a poem on the Japanese occupation, Lifted the Smoke of Battle.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco is famous for her one-act play, Her Son, Jose Rizal which is set during the time Rizal was imprisoned and awaiting his execution.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco critiqued works like Tony Perez' Oktubre, Ligaya Amilbangsa's Stillness and Tanghalang Pilipino's Aguinaldo: 1898.
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Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was an Honorary Chairman of the Association of Ballet Academies of the Philippines, the founding member of the Philippine Ballet Theatre and was known as a Zontian and a performing arts critic and columnist of the Manila Bulletin.