San Francisco - Brendan Barthel and Victor Talledos, photography Jordan Matter in “Dancers among us”
LGBTQ* Artist You Should Know
Reginald Marsh
-Illustrations/art/etchings part of the series “Chop Suey Dancers”
-Late 1920s
-Depicted couples of the same sex dancing together in New York nightspots
-Many characters intentionally created to be ambiguous (Marsh wanted audience to ask if dancers were assumed gender, in drag, or androgynous)
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Mariano Garcés y Alejandro Figliolo dance a queer tango (“la cachila”) at Festival Anormales representing the Queer Tango Marathon.
Sometimes I find myself worrying what would happen to me if suddenly I was unable to walk or (frankly, most importantly) dance. And then, something like this comes along and tells me everything would be all right.
Inspirational Motivational of the Day: Cirque du Soleil performer Dergin Tokmak, who became paralyzed from the waist down after contracting polio as a child, performs one of his incredible, inspirational solo crutch-dance routines.
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