Asian Art Museum: Beyond Bollywood Dance Series: Queering Dance Traditions
In celebration of Pride Month and our local LGBTQ+ community, we feature performers of Indian and Cambodian dance traditions who challenge assumptions about gender roles in dance and recontextualize traditional dances for the 21st century. Gender fluidity is an age-old concept: in Buddhist texts, bodhisattvas transcend gender distinctions; depictions of Asian deities are often androgynous; […]