Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds
Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race. Si-lan Chen in 1944. A socialist, she approached dance as a way to build international solidarity.Credit...Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, ADAGP, Paris 2021; Telimage By Jennifer Wilson May 27, 2021, 2:55 p.m. ET This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported ...
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