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Joe Goode Gender Heroes

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Dance
Subject

Cultural Identity

Gender
State
California
Year
2000
Status
Completed

Description

Gender Heroes is an interdisciplinary work combining choreographer and dancer Joe Goode’s fascination with complex narratives, linked vignettes and physical, emotional and intellectual juxtapositions. A major component of this work concerns Harry Hay, a founder of the Mattachine Society, a pre-Stonewall gay liberation organization that was formed in 1951, the same year Goode was born.

Joe Goode

Joe Goode is a choreographer, writer, and director whose first concern as an artist is to provide a “deeply felt, profoundly human experience” in the th…
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