Ma. Eleanor Mescallado-Kalash
Artistic Director and Choreographer

She was the Trainer, Researcher for Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company, and Assistant to the Dance Director Mrs. Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, the Philippine National Artist for Dance. Her extensive primary and secondary researches on Philippine indigenous dances and music were included in the repertoires of the company where she joined three World Tours and many short tours as major solo dancer, and later became its Dance Consultant/Director before immigrating to Canada. Eno, as fondly called by her friends and colleagues, was the Choreographer and Dance Director of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), Tanghalang Munti (Children’s Theatre) of the Folk Arts Theatre, Central Bank of the Philippines and the Army Reserve Command of the Philippines (ARESCOM). She was a lecturer and workshop facilitator for the Professional Artist Developers Association of the Philippines and had coordinated, moderated and directed projects for Folk Arts Theatre and Cultural Centre of the Philippines. She had given numerous dance lectures and workshops internationally and all over the Philippines.

Eno is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Education and was a faculty member of the Physical Education Department of the Philippine Women’s University and St. Joseph School. Her other studies are at:

• Laban Centre for Movement and Dance - Goldsmith College, University of London (England).
• The Place - London Contemporary Dance School (England)
• Pineapple Studio (England)
• Rosella Hightower International School of Dance (France)
• With Paris’ Prima Ballerina Lianne Daydee (France)
• Douglas Nierras of Power Dance (Philippines)

Eno has been the Artistic Director and Choreographer for Culture Philippines of Ontario since 2002 and has brought the group into a high level of performance.