Macho Dancer

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Event Macho Dancer
Venue Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW
Umbrella Event Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2015
First Date 4 November 2015
Last Date 5 November 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Macho Dancing is performed by young men in night clubs for male - as well as female - clients. Macho Dancing, with its specific movement vocabulary and physicality is a unique phenomenon in the Philippines. An economically-motivated language of seduction that employs masculinity as body capital.

'Macho Dancer' is a solo work in which a woman performs macho dance. [...] The very act of this woman performing a gender loop veers attention towards her body as a product. By emulating and becoming the macho dancer, she also disembeds the sociocultural and economic frames that ultimately expose t
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Dance
Secondary Genre Performance
Subjects Dance
Economics
Gender
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Eisa Jocson Choreographer
Eisa Jocson Creator
Arco Renz Dramaturg/e
Jan Maertens Lighting Designer
Eisa Jocson Performer
Yap Seok Hui Producer
Lina Lapelyte Sound Composer
Tang Fu Kuen Technical Manager
Rasa Alksnyte Various coach
Further Information Co-production: Workspacebrussels Beursschouwburg wp Zimmer
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 140837