#macho dancing

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Don’t miss Eisa Jocson performing next week December 18, 19, and 20!

We’re excited to collaborate with our friends at CounterPulse to present three works by dancer Eisa Jocson, who — from pole to macho dancing —investigates the gender and seduction politics of dancing in the service industry. Join us!

December 18 and December 19, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday’s performances will be a double bill of Death of a Pole Dancer and Macho Dancer taking place in two locations. The first performance will be at Galería de la Raza followed by a trip to Gray Area / Grand Theater.

December 20, 7 p.m. Join us for the North American premiere of Host debuting at ODC Dance Commons.

We hope to see you there! Learn more →

[Image: Eisa Jocson, Death of a Pole Dance; photo: Andreas Endermann]

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(via Machismo Ain’t Just for Boys Anymore)

PORTLAND, Oregon — “Macho doesn’t prove mucho,” socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor once punned. And while a certain prideful strut and a slightly aggressive air may prove little, it remains a schema that frames how we perceive and gauge masculinity, which is begging to be deconstructed. Eisa Jocson‘s recent performance “Macho Dancer” (2014) at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art‘s (PICA) 2014 Time-Based Art (TBA) festival used macho gestures like muscle flexing, chest puffing, and other assertive poses. Bare-chested while simultaneously flexing her arms and flaunting her manufactured bulge, the performance was gender-bending cognitive dissonance at its artistic best.

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