Phia Ménard
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Phia Ménard
“Drag reveals that ‘who we really are’ and how people see us aren’t fixed realities … Through constant transformations and reveals, drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, reality, good taste, and art can be lived. at its best, drag also blurs the fragile boundary between the individual
... See more“In an ideal world, queer, trans, and nonbinary people wouldn’t have to perform in order to survive. But we do what we have to (and a few of us really love it!). sometimes the only ways that those of us who refuse the binaries and templates of our times can be understood is within the role of a performer - as goddess, witch, entertainer, or muse.
... See moreDance is for all who desire to move expressively, with rhythm, or in the spirit of the moment. Dance is global and primal, not just for those who train to perform on stage. As somatic innovator Gabrielle Roth liked to say: “If you have a body, you are a dancer.”