Eisa
Jocson’s newest creation, “Your Highness” will have its world premiere on July
27 (8pm) and 28 (3pm, 8pm) at the CCP Little Theater, and will be performed at
several major European performing arts festivals from August to September 2017.
The work is a production by Ballet Philippines and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
Frankfurt am Main (Germany), in co-production with Internationales
Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Germany), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland), La
Bâtie – Festival de Genève (Switzerland).
Eisa Jocson is an internationally
renowned artist creating and touring works in Asia, Europe, America and Australia.
Educated as a visual artist and trained as a ballet dancer, she won her first
pole-dancing competition in Manila in 2010 and began her international dance
career with public interventions like “pole-tagging” here and abroad. Her 3
solos, “Death of the Pole Dancer” (2011), “Macho Dancer” (2013) and “Host”
(2015) toured extensively in major festivals abroad. Under the HAPPYLAND (2017)
series, her new creations, “Princess” a duet with Filipino performance artist
Russ Ligtas and “Your Highness” are a continuation of her investigation into
Filipino labour, performance of happiness and production of fantasy within the
happiness empire. “Your Highness” is her first ensemble creation, and is the
first of all her works to be premiered and produced in the Philippines.
In “Your Highness”, the classically
trained dancers masterfully alternate between stylized Disney gestures and
standards of ballet classics like Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake –
and explore the fine line between portrayals of happiness through ballet
history and princess archetypes in a globalized entertainment industry.
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The massive employment of Filipino
performers by Hong Kong Disneyland has led to a dire brain drain, with its
impact strongly felt in Ballet Philippines, which has lost half of its top
dancers within the last decade. Against this backdrop, choreographer Eisa
Jocson has now created a dance piece with five young dancers of the Ballet
Philippines.
“As an independent Filipina
choreographer it is a unique and inspiring adventure to collaborate with Ballet
Philippines in creating this new ensemble work,” shares Jocson. “It is exciting
to see the dancers push their capacities into unknown terrain with incredible
virtuosity. And I am looking forward to share this performance born out of an
intense and meticulous process of exploring the dancer's and ballet's manifold
bodies and voices.”
“Your Highness” international artistic
team is led by Eisa Jocson (choreographer), Gia Gequinto, Stephanie Cabral,
Maila Habagat, Alexis Piel, and Carlo Padoga (Ballet Philippines dancers), Arco
Renz & Anna Wagner (dramaturgs), Teresa Barrozo (music & sound design),
Florian Bach (lighting design), and Dennis Maristany (costume design).
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For tickets, call Ballet
Philippines at (+632) 551-1003, the CCP Box Office at (+632) 832-3704, or
Ticketworld at (+632) 891-9999.
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