Performance 
Eisa Jocson

Manila Zoo

Eisa Jocson

is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. Her performances focus on the intersection between gender, affective work, migration and corporality. In this regard, she has previously explored themes of pole dancing, macho dancing – a dance prevalent in gay bars in Manila – and escort work. Trained in fine arts as well as ballet, she won the 2010 Pole Art Championship in Manila.

Eisa Jocson has been showing her work regularly at renown international theatres and festivals in Asia and Europe. In 2008, she presented Princess at TQW, the first part of her HAPPYLAND trilogy, which explored the relationship between work and performances of happiness in the globalised entertainment industry. Jocson received the 13th Artists Award of the Philippine Culture Centre in 2018 and the prestigious Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2019.

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Credits

Artistic direction, choreography, performance 
Eisa Jocson 
Musical direction 
Charlotte Simon 
In collaboration with 
Bunny Cadag, Cathrine Go, Russ Ligtas, Joshua Serafin 
Dramaturgy 
Anna Wagner 
Creative Presence 
Arco Renz 
Production management, coordination, distribution 
Anne Kleiner 
Technical manager 
Yap Seok Hui / ARTFACTO 


A production by Eisa Jocson and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main (Germany) within the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. In coproduction with BIT Teatergarasjen (Norway), Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), Kaserne Basel (Switzerland), RISING Melbourne (Australia), Tanzquartier Vienna (Austria), Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taiwan) and TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (Japan). Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses, International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe Institut.  


Tanzplattform Rhein-Main is a cooperation project of Hessisches Staatsballett and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, enabled by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt/Main, the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts and the alliance of foundations (Aventis Foundation, BHF-BANK-Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner-Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main). 

Manila Zoo

+++ Performance postponed +++

In Manila Zoo, the final part of her HAPPYLAND series, Eisa Jocson continues her exploration of Walt Disney’s empire of happiness. Similar to Princess, shown at TQW in 2018, the starting point for this performance will also be the role of Philippine entertainers at Disneyland Hong Kong. Disproportionally used to portray animals and objects, they serve the well-tuned machinery of family entertainment. Highly qualified, world-class machines of happiness bursting with energy. Anthropomorphised animals modelled on US-American values and life styles. Lions are kings; monkeys, crickets and fish are there to fetch and carry for the human visitors.

Together with German electronic music composer Charlotte Simon and four Philippine performers, Jocson will look at the intersection of human and animal, of spectacle, work and isolation. Together, they will seek out moments in which private and public, the real and virtual, happiness and horror are indistinguishable. In this piece, Eisa Jocson will address the psychosis that is at the heart of separating the human from the animal. Who can move freely, even across borders? Who is forced to stay at a certain place, in a restricted area? Such questions are ever more relevant in times like these.

Eisa Jocson

is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. Her performances focus on the intersection between gender, affective work, migration and corporality. In this regard, she has previously explored themes of pole dancing, macho dancing – a dance prevalent in gay bars in Manila – and escort work. Trained in fine arts as well as ballet, she won the 2010 Pole Art Championship in Manila.

Eisa Jocson has been showing her work regularly at renown international theatres and festivals in Asia and Europe. In 2008, she presented Princess at TQW, the first part of her HAPPYLAND trilogy, which explored the relationship between work and performances of happiness in the globalised entertainment industry. Jocson received the 13th Artists Award of the Philippine Culture Centre in 2018 and the prestigious Hugo Boss Asia Art Award in 2019.

eisajocson.wordpress.com

Credits

Artistic direction, choreography, performance 
Eisa Jocson 
Musical direction 
Charlotte Simon 
In collaboration with 
Bunny Cadag, Cathrine Go, Russ Ligtas, Joshua Serafin 
Dramaturgy 
Anna Wagner 
Creative Presence 
Arco Renz 
Production management, coordination, distribution 
Anne Kleiner 
Technical manager 
Yap Seok Hui / ARTFACTO 


A production by Eisa Jocson and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main (Germany) within the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main. In coproduction with BIT Teatergarasjen (Norway), Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), Kaserne Basel (Switzerland), RISING Melbourne (Australia), Tanzquartier Vienna (Austria), Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taiwan) and TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (Japan). Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media of Germany within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses, International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe Institut.  


Tanzplattform Rhein-Main is a cooperation project of Hessisches Staatsballett and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, enabled by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and supported by the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt/Main, the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts and the alliance of foundations (Aventis Foundation, BHF-BANK-Stiftung, Crespo Foundation, Dr. Marschner-Stiftung, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main). 
23.04./
24.04.
Fri/​Sat
18.00
23.04./
24.04.
Fri/​Sat
18.00
TQW Halle G
€ 20/15/10
 
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