As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.
Tag: Dancing
Maskless and Sweaty: Clubbing Returns to Britain for a Weekend
In Liverpool, people danced together at a warehouse party as part of a scientific trial of how and if social distancing can safely end.
Lucha libre, yoga y baile: bienvenidos a los centros de vacunación de Ciudad de México
Muchas personas mayores en Ciudad de México llegaban “con miedo” a los centros de vacunación, preocupadas de que el pinchazo les hiciera daño, dijo un funcionario. “Quisimos distraerlos”. Y entraron en escena las bandas de música y los luchadores enmas…
Lucha Libre, Yoga, Dancing: Welcome to Mexico City’s Vaccination Sites
To calm Mexico City’s elderly, who were arriving “really scared” at vaccination sites, officials cued up the bands and masked wrestlers.
Edinburgh Festivals Will Go Ahead, in Person and Online
The Edinburgh International Festival, canceled last year, said it would proceed in August thanks to three specially built pavilions.
Paris Opera to Act on Racist Stereotypes in Ballet
A report said the company, which has lagged behind on issues of race, needs to do more to promote diversity.
Guido Goldman, a U.S. Bridge to Germany, Dies at 83
A Kissinger protégé (and a pre-eminent textile art collector), his fingerprints can be found on many of the leading postwar institutions linking the two allies.
How to Pretend You’re in Dakar Today
The Senegalese capital has an aura that seeps into the soul. Bustling and addictive, it makes you want to stick around.
To See and Be Seen: These Dancers Make Disability Visible
Heidi Latsky’s “On Display” and Kinetic Light’s “Descent” show the broadness and diversity of the field of disability dance.
David Toole, Disabled Dancer With Grace in His Hands, Dies at 56
He learned to dance expressively long after his legs were amputated. A premier disabled performer on stages around the world, he opened the 2012 London Paralympics.