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| Personal Name | Dela Victoria, Leanard A. |
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| Resource Title | Staging the macho : a dramaturgical analysis of macho dancers’ performances of masculinities in a male entertainment club in Metro Manila |
| Date Issued | 6 June 2025 |
| Abstract | In this study, I examine how masculinity is performed and negotiated by male dancers, commonly referred to as macho dancers, within a male entertainment club in Metro Manila. Guided primarily by Messerschmidt’s Structured Action Theory (SAT) and supplemented by Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis (DA), I investigate the interplay between social structure, agency, embodiment, and reflexivity in the dancers’ performances across four interactional contexts: onstage performance, dancer–client interactions, dancer–peer relationships, and dancer–staff dynamics. Using ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with five heterosexual, cisgender male dancers, I explore how masculinity is enacted as a fluid and strategic practice shaped by institutional norms, interpersonal expectations, and individual choices. My findings reveal that dancers actively engage in impression management, set and negotiate boundaries, and employ embodied strategies to perform culturally legible masculinities based on audience types and situational demands. These performances are not fixed but are continuously adapted and reflexively managed within the club’s spatial and social configurations. By centering the lived experiences of macho dancers, this research contributes to ongoing conversations in masculinity and performance studies. It positions the male entertainment club as a dynamic space where gender roles are simultaneously reinforced and contested, offering insight into the performative, contextual, and relational construction of masculinity in contemporary Philippine society. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication : Rhetoric and Performance |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Macho Dancing; Negotiation of Masculinity; Gender Performance; Male dancers—Philippines; Masculinity Studies; Performance of Masculinity; Masculinity—Philippines; Masculinity in the theater--Philippines; Striptease—Philippines |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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