Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. Trained as a visual artist, with a background in ballet, pole and macho dancing. Her three solo works Death of the Pole Dancer (2011), Macho Dancer (2013), Host (2015) have been touring widely in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. From pole to macho dancing to hosting-service industry, Eisa investigates the labour and representations of the dancing body in the service industry, and exposes gender formation, seduction politics, and Filipino social mobility. Her next works under the uber title Happyland investigates Filipino labour, performance of happiness and production of fantasy inside the biggest entertainment empire.

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