Image Descriptions

• Cover Images:

  • Left - Two white performers sit partially obstructed under a clear plastic tarp, eyes cast upwards. A vibrant grapefruit is seen between them, held between their faces. The text overlaid reads "peel me" in curved stylized writing.

  • Right - Brown-skinned hands rest on a banig, their clawed fingers digging into waves of woven palm. The text overlaid reads “pahinga ka muna” in bold lettering.

• Peel Me Image: Three performers share a grapefruit half. Their teeth rip and pull at the lone fruit. The photo appears overlayed with plastic as the text reads 'peel me'.

• Horizontal Row of Rehearsal Images from Peel Me’s Rehearsal Process (Left to Right):

  • Five dancers stand in a dance studio with grapefruits held up to their shoulder, peering over the other. curtains, the dancers look serious and pensive.

  • A close-up on hands ripping a grapefruit apart. We see the performers rings and tattoos as she get covered in grapefruit juice.

  • Two dancers share weight in a yellow and pink dance studio. One holds the knee of another, with the dancer on the left in a deep backbend.

  • A dancer sits on the shoulder of two others. She looks around with urgnecy.

  • Two dancers hold each other closely.

• pahinga ka muna Image: Miggy lies on the ground, their face bathing in the spotlight’s glow as the arms of a barong embrace their neck. Their hand reaches above their head, as their brown-skinned palm presses a rosary against the floor beneath them.

• Horizontal Row of Rehearsal Images from pahinga ka muna’s Rehearsal Process (Left to Right):

  • Brown-skinned hands rest on a banig, their clawed fingers digging into waves of woven palm.

  • Miggy sits in an empty studio, looking up to a spotlight as a cloud of white fabric encircles their torso. Their arms reach up as the light brown skin of their fingers become entangled with the string of a rosary, thumb rubbing against the dark brown grain of its beads.

  • Bordered by a semi-circle halo of white cards, a pile of tarot cards, a singing bowl, and books, Miggy lies on a barong. Its pineapple silk arm drapes over Miggy’s chest. Eyes closed, they feel the embrace of this garment and the soothing spotlight caressing the brown skin of their face.

  • Brown-skinned hands rest on a barong, their fingers pinching at the pearl button fastening together the pineapple silk of this garment.

  • Miggy lies on their side, a cloud of white fabric scratches against their neck. The glistening brown skin of their leg extends out, trying to escape the spotlight’s gaze. Their own gaze is transfixed on the mess of a rosary’s beads entangled within their fingers.