Ballet Philippines presents ‘Your Highness’ at CCP

Ballet Philippines collaborates with independent artist Eisa Jocson in Your Highness. The performance will have its limited run for its Philippine premiere on July 27, 8 p.m., and July 28, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. 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 of 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).

In Your Highness, the classically trained dancers masterfully alternate between stylized Disney gestures and standards of ballet classics like Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake — and explore the fine line between portrayals of happiness through ballet history and princess archetypes in a globalized entertainment industry.

The Your Highness international artistic team is led by Eisa Jocson (choreographer), Gia Gequinto, Stephanie Cabral, Maila Habagat, Alexis Piel, and Carlo Padoga (Ballet Philippines dancers), Arco Renz & Anna Wagner (dramaturgs), Teresa Barrozo (music & sound design), Florian Bach (lighting design), and Dennis Maristany (costume design).

For tickets, call Ballet Philippines at 551-1003, the CCP Box Office at 832-3704, or Ticketworld at 891-9999.