It’s time to move beyond our shameful past of silencg gays. It’s time to give the reprentatn we serve. It's time to embrace queer dance theory.
Contents:
- HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP
- THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP
* i don't dance gay theory *
Given how mon love duets are dance, I expected at least one or both of the gay choreographers to name queer-themed works they had created. One of them, a choreographer origally om Hoton who has primarily worked Europe for the past , went as far as to make fun of the qutn, sayg “I haven’t figured out what my ‘gay’ ballet technique looks like yet. I said, “I thk ’s strange that an entire sectn of the populatn don’t see their liv reprented the dance world, and I fd disturbg that gay choreographers aren’t dog more to exprs their own experienc through their art form.
” A woman the dience spoke up and said, “Diaghilev ma a gay male love duet back the 1920s set to Tchaikovsky…so ’s been done. Rather than sayg that, I replied, “It’s tertg you mentn Tchaikovsky, given that he mted suici bee he uldn’t be openly gay Rsia when he was a poser.
THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
I thk that highlights a problem the art world that lgers today, and ’s time to move beyond our shameful past of silencg and punishg gays.
The crowd and panel fell silent, until the female choreographer spoke up and said that she had ma a ntemporary gay love dance a few years ago, and beg straight didn’t stop her om wantg to explore all typ of relatnships onstage. The two men were om the ballet world, where many of the performers and choreographers are gay, but the fundg all om donors and stutns that are eply vted upholdg the Juo-Christian heteropatriarchy. Numero studi over the past several years report that the majory of the populatn is not exclively heterosexual and that over half of Generatn Z members (people born after 1994) intify wh one or more letters the LGBTQIAP alphabet soup (lbian, gay, genrqueer, bisexual, bigenr, transgenr, trans, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, agenr, pansexual and polyamoro, among others!