Expanding on their Opening Weekend performances, P.6 artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera will offer a workshop for women and nonbinary people that explores ecofeminism, domestic and agricultural labor, and the journey of migrant women workers.

In this workshop, the broom will serve as a central axis connecting the archetypes of the witch and the housemaid. It serves as a tool for playful transformation and somatic exploration. The workshop will help participants achieve the following:

- Explore what it means to extend oneself through the broom, becoming one with it, becoming wild.
- Reclaim gossiping as a practice of female solidarity and knowledge sharing.
- Use laughing and howling to release, reclaim, rejoice, and reconnect with the primal.
- Explore the power of intention through movement and collective utterance.

This workshop is limited to 20 participants and is for Women and/or Nonbinary participants only. Registration is required. Participants are required to bring their own broom.

Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera present the US-debut of their performance piece Magic Maids, a multi-disciplinary critique of the modern exploitation of women as domestic workers interpreted through the historical context of European witch-hunts. Expanding on their Opening Weekend performances, P.6 artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera will also offer a workshop for women and nonbinary people that explores ecofeminism, domestic and agricultural labor, and the journey of migrant women workers. 

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Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer. She exposes body politics in the service and entertainment industry as seen through the unique socioeconomic lens of the Philippines. She studies how the body moves and what conditions make it move, be it social mobility or movement out of the Philippines through migrant work. In all her creations—from pole to macho dancing to princess and zoo animals—capital is the driving force of movement pushing the indentured body into spatial geographies.

Jocson received a BFA from the University of the Philippines in 2008. Her work has toured extensively in major performing arts festivals, biennials, and institutions worldwide, including Biennale of Sydney (2024); Tate Modern, London, UK (2023); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2024 and 2020); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2020); and Sharjah Biennial 14, UAE (2019); among others. Jocson is a recipient of the 2018 Cultural Centre of the Philippines 13 Artists Award, a Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2019), a Seoul MediaCity Biennale SeMa-HANA Award (2021), and the Tabori International Award (2023).

Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performance artist, curator, and educator. Exploring the power dynamics of visibility and opacity, she attempts to disorient how we perceive the "other."  She subverts frameworks of existing rituals to create alternate dramaturgies. She works with found objects and is curious about space and place. Perera’s solo and collaborative works deal with violent nationalism, patriarchy, border rituals, colonial heritage, and class. They have been in festivals and biennales across Europe, South and East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa since 2010.  

Perera is a graduate of DAS (Arts) Theatre and has an MA in Clinical Psychology from Pune University, India. She has collaborated in multi-disciplinary performance projects locally and internationally since 2004. Perera was a member of the Chitrasena Dance Company and a founding member of The Packet Collective. She conceived and curated the programs of the Colombo Dance Platform at the Goethe-Institut (2016-20), and is committed to creating support networks for the independent dance scene in Sri Lanka.