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Ga(u)ze

  • Dahlia Li
  • School of Arts & Sciences
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Untitled, by Dixon Li.

Doctoral candidate Dahlia Li will begin work on an ensemble dance piece, “Ga(u)ze,” which explores how queer dancers of color respond to the racialization and sexualization of their bodies. This project is an evolution of a 2016 collaborative theatre piece Li made and premiered in London, “T-House,” in which Li and two Singaporean artists used the space of the theatre to investigate flat globalized Orientalist stereotypes (e.g. wuxia kungfu moves, Broadway musical songs, vague spiritualist temple aesthetics, etc). “Ga(u)ze” turns to dance to further explore what it means to see oneself through—or even past—the kinds of distorted representations available in a racist world.  

  • 2021
  • 2021 Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Artists Support
  • Responsive Opportunity
  • School of Arts & Sciences

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