Temps d’Images 2016 Post.bankruptcy
Temps d’Images 2016 Post.bankruptcy
Macho Dancer
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Macho Dancing is performed by young men in nightclubs for male and 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. By embodying a macho dancer, she challenges our perception of sexuality and questions gender as a tool for social mobility. The performance generates a gender loop in which the performer and audience are entangled.
concept, choreography and performance: Eisa Jocson (PH)
light: Jan Maertens
music composition: Lina Lapelyte
coach: Rasa Alksnyte
dramaturgical advice: Arco Renz
technical manager: Seok Hui Yap
co-production: Workspacebrussels, Beursschouwburg Residency support: Workspacebrussels, Beursschouwburg, wpZimmer
About the artists
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.
https://eisajocson.wordpress.com
https://eisajocson.wordpress.com/works/macho-dancer/
