About Me
Edrian Melchor F. Pangilinan or “E!” was born in Mandaluyong City, Philippines in 1992. He currently lives in San Diego, CA where his entire family immigrated in 2001. Growing up with a strong liking for the arts, his training included dance, music, voice and art.
He graduated from San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in 2011 where he discovered his potential for developing creative expression through dance and video. Edrian has performed and showcased choreographic works for numerous companies/institutions including Visionary Dance Theatre, San Diego Dance Theater, San Diego State University and most recently Samahan Philippine Dance Company to name a few.
On his journey to cultivating his artistic voice, he realized in addition to movement, the realm of television and film was something he really wanted to pursue seriously. He is currently pursuing an education in Television, Film and New Media while finishing his B.F.A in Dance at San Diego State University. His first professional film captured the transformation of incoming college students in Grossmont College’s “EOPS: Summer Institute Program 2015”. In 2016, his short film, “Lei é Bella” was featured in 40 North Dance Film Festival where his work was one of the top 36 films chosen amongst 106 submissions from 19 different countries. This year, he finally completed his LGBT short of three years, “Hey Man” a romantic comedy film about one’s discovery of self-love. While recently completing, “Flight” for the Campus Movie Festival in October. Another LGBT film greatly inspired by a deep-rooted place of loneliness and his yearning for companionship and connection.
Edrian’s current aesthetics involves working with the idea of functionality versus aesthetics, experiencing state changes in the process while also finding pleasure and indulgence in the making and doing. As he reaches the end of his undergraduate years at SDSU, he finds great comfort in going out to the world with his approach to dance as a way of problem solving while cultivating a greater sense of understanding, compassion and empathy. He is truly grateful for his time that became experiences, friends that became family and faculties that became mentors.
