AADS Postdoctoral Lecture Series: 'Passing for Almost Straight: Similarities and Differences Between Heterosexual and Gay Male Gender Performances On-and Offstage' with Dr. Mark Broomfield, Post-doc Fellow of AADS

AADS Postdoctoral Fellows Lecture Series

'Passing for Almost Straight: Similarities and Differences Between Heterosexual and Gay Male Gender Performances On- and Offstage'

Dr. Mark Broomfield, 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow of African and African Diaspora Studies

Wednesday, February 1st

12 noon - 2 pm

Warfield Center - ISESE GALLERY/JESTER CENTER A230

This talk (also the title of a book in progress by Dr. Broomfield) examines sexual passing and the multidimensionality of African-American dancer-choreographers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who negotiate the performance, perception, and representation of the black male dancing against a backdrop of entrenched stereotypes about Western theatrical dance.