The stereotypil profsnal male dancer is a gay man. However, ltle if any systematic rearch has vtigated the validy of this stereotype, much ls the reasons why male sexual orientatn would be associated wh tert dance. We terviewed 136 profsnal dancers about the preval …
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- 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
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. * 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.
THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
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. 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.