An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance's purpose is to create a space for Middle Eastern and belly dancers to perform their controversial works. The concert consists of vignettes, constructed, choreographed, and performed by a variety of dancers. The pieces, based in the Middle Eastern dance idiom, make present boarders, edges, and standard representations visible by pushing past them. They also bring to light covered up and neglected issues of gender roles, appropriation, the ambiguity of eroticism and sexuality, the role of the audience, and stereotyping.
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Los Angeles
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