Eisa Jocson, world-renowned disruptor in the field of dance, collaborates with Ballet Philippines for the second production in her Happyland series, Your Highness. With Your Highness, the art of dance is explored with well-known ballet characters and popular culture princess archetypes. Not that usual for ballet productions, the dancers went beyond the usual boundaries by finding their voices, thus adding another dimension to their performance. The performances scheduled for July 27 (8PM) and July 28 (3PM, 8PM) are only the beginning for this exciting new production. After these, this creation is scheduled to perform at several major European performing arts festivals across August to September of this year. This is possible as Your Highness is a production of Ballet Philippines and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main (Germany), in co-production with Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Germany), Zurcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland), and La Batie - Festival ...

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 Photo: Geloy Concepcion 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 ex...