Searching for Dance History’s Queer Women? Start Here
In the November 2023 issue of Dance Magazine, Samm Wesler asks: Where are dance history’s queer women? Wendy Perron responds.
Queer Women Are Disconcertingly Absent From the Pages of Dance History. Where Are They?
It’s 2009, and my high school self is in the studio choreographing a new duet with my best friend to Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.” The company director pokes her head in and disparagingly tells us the song and movement choice makes us look like “a couple of lesbians.” We stand in stunned silence. […]