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Worldmaking through Embodiment Series Presents:
“Dancing on the (Bamboo) Ceiling: Performing While Asian in U.S. Postmodern Dance”
A conversation with
Gerald Casel, Professor of Dance at Rutgers University,
and
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine
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Thursday, April 20th
5pm
Register
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This conversation with Gerald Casel explores his personal background as an immigrant Filipinx dancer/choreographer and his career performing as Asian in U.S. postmodern dance. He also will share “Cover Your Mouth When You Smile,” a movement essay (a dance performance that follows the format of a five paragraph paper) that examines the essential labor of Filipino overseas workers and their simultaneous invisibility across the diaspora. This event explores the impossibility of being presumed to be a model minority, the expected