Eisa JOCSON is a contemporary choreographer, dancer, and visual artist based in Manila. And the Filipino Super-KTV-Woman Band is a performance by an all-female trio. Together with the artist’s two co-singers, the performance connects an exploration of migrant labor with formative moments of feminine empowerment through the phenomenon of KTV.
An audience and I sit in a tiny space between two white cloths falling to the ground; meanwhile, outside the cloths stand other audience who can hear the talk inside and see the silhouette, body condition and emotion of the two talkers through the light behind the cloths. The audience inside can ask me a question, and I will answer one hundred percent honestly. Such talk will lead to two kinds of consequence—convinced or irritated by my explicit words.
1. What We Think About When We Think About Dancing, 45’, Choy Ka Fai(Singapore) 2. Deconstruct Dance and Theatre, 40’，Media X Performance(China)
Kiss it Better aims to explore the meaning behind the cultural convention “kiss” itself. It is a one-on-one performance revolving around a question posed to the audience: which part of your body has been recently hurting, feeling uncomfortable, or injured PHYSICALLY or EMOTIONALLY? During the performance, the boundary of intimacy and public between the performer and the audience has been shifted,
This performance will decompose and juxtapose the elements of previous theatrical works to present the thinking process of the two showings. The performing formats are similar but their effects are unexpectedly different. And in the performance, objects become independent units.
Dance Deco explores individual's body and identity by examining the decorative expression of dance. China’s dance education and dance culture left inerasable imprints on its dancers. Dance, be it folk dance, modern dance, classical dance or contemporary dance, does not just convey the aesthetics of the body, but also reflects the trajectory of the social development.
Contemporary theater is a constantly evolving concept. Unlike the stage forms of traditional theater, it focuses on exploring all the possibilities between performing arts and the reality. It addresses current social phenomena by adopting various forms and shifting paradigms. As an important feature of contemporary theater, body performance manifests itself in the most primitive way and bypasses language narrative and possible hypocrisy.
