Performance
Rick Countryman, Giro Alva, Sasa Cabalquinto
Flute · Guitar · Butoh
1F Projects presents a joint performance by Rick Countryman, Sasa Cabalquinto and Giro Alva.
In this collaboration, the three artists create an environment that people can enter and experience together, where vibration, presence, and bodies and sound affect each other in space. The body acts as the receiver and transmitter of vibration.
Saxophone, flute, butoh, and guitar meet in real time. The pairing extends Rick and Sasa’s earlier Butoh Jazz work, here joined by Giro Alva on guitar.
- Date
- Saturday, 21 March 2026
- Time
- 9:00 PM
- Location
- 1F Projects, La Fuerza Plaza, Makati
- Flute
- Rick Countryman
- Guitar
- Giro Alva
- Butoh
- Sasa Cabalquinto
- Poster Design
- @cloathes_studio
Artist Bios
Sasa Cabalquinto
Sasa Cabalquinto is a pioneering butoh artist based in Manila — Filipina independent movement artist, dancer, choreographer, and theater and film actor. One of the first Butoh practitioners in the Philippines and the first Filipina to study Butoh in Japan, her practice deepens the politics of the body toward personal and collective healing through ancestral remembering, indigenous ritual practices, and decolonial embodiment within the Butoh form. She is the founder of Kapwa Movement, an independent platform bridging Butoh with Philippine arts and culture, and serves as ABG program director for the Asia Butoh Gathering.
Rick Countryman
Rick Countryman is an American free-improvisation saxophonist and flautist based in the Philippines, performing on alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, alto flute, and bass flute. He studied jazz improvisation, intervallic cycles, and extended techniques with Bert Wilson, with American jazz double bassist Michael Bisio and tenor saxophonist Rick Mandyck as early mentors; his playing draws on Eric Dolphy, Sonny Simmons, and the 60s Free Jazz movement. He records regularly with international collaborators including Christian Bucher and Japanese improvisational drummer Sabu Toyozumi, with releases on Improvising Beings (France), Chap Chap Records (Japan), FMR Records (UK), and Sol Disk Records (US) — more than a dozen records across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Giro Alva
In his solo work, Pinkmen co-frontman and songwriter Giro Alva (Giro Alvarado) dives into classical territory and displays his virtuosity with the guitar — most notably on his all-instrumental debut Mula Sa Iyo (2021), which ranges from Kundiman to six-string experiments. With Pinkmen, formed in 2016 with longtime collaborator Matt Medrano, his work merges classic folk, Manila sound, and ’80s rock-psychedelia. He is also a composer for film, with credits including the short Ang maangas, ang marikit, at ang makata.
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