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Fuller, wearing a flowing garment and headdress, sits regally on a stone throne.

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.

Wendy Perron November 20th, 2023
The author, a white woman with dark hair and tattoos on her right arm, dancing on the beach, suspended in a forced arch bridge shape with her left arm wrapped around her torso.

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. […]

Samm Wesler November 20th, 2023
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