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Rewriting Irish Dancing’s Weirdly Strict Gender Rulebook

DANCE Posted: August 30, 2020 4:30 am

Trans dancers are challenging the conventions. Hayden Moon says it’s not easy: “I’d spent years learning to be high on my toes and not make any noise and never let my heel touch the ground, doing all of these very pretty kicks and leaps and jumps. And then all of a sudden I was getting told by my dance teacher that I wasn’t loud enough.” (And that’s the least of the challenges he’s faced in the Irish dance world in Australia.) – Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 08.27.20

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