EISA JOCSON (Associate Director)
Eisa Jocson started her dance training at the Claraval School of Dance in St. Scholastica's College in Manila, and continued to minor in Ballet at the Philippine High School for the Arts. She discovered pole dancing under Ed Aniel in 2007, and trained in the art of exotic dancing at Exotic Dance Central Inc. in New York from 2008 to 2009. During her artist residency at FoAM in Brussels she worked with ex-P.A.R.T.S dancer/choreographer Rasa Alksnyte to deconstruct her methods, and develop hybrid pole dance performances.
She is a graduate of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman and in 2009 received a scholarship in the apprentice program of the Art Students League of New York.. Her creative practice explores the merging of her visual arts background and politics of pole dancing. ‘Stainless Borders’ was shown in Coup de Ville, an international art festival in Sint-Niklaas Belgium. Stainless borders is an interventionist project that combines street pole dancing and grafitti tagging to explore the limits and possibilities of the body in urban space.
She will be participating in the Monsoon platform at STUK in Leuven, Belgium this December. Monsoon is a transcultural and multidisciplinary meeting platform for Asian and European artists. At present she is the Associate director and a senior instructor of Pole Academy Philippines.
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