Jocson didn’t talk during the 25-minute performance of “Macho Dancer” (2014). Instead, she performed masculine gestures and posed to pop music on stage. Although, macho is linked to talking smack on ...

She emerges through a cloud of smoke in a black tank top, denim shorts and black decorated boots, her long hair emphasising her femininity as she flings it back, bends or turns swiftly. Her smooth ...

Filipino vet Mel Chionglo has helmed at least two of the many prior "macho dancer" mellers that followed Lino Brocka's 1988 hit of that name, and his third trip to this particular well is among the ...