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By Christina Sunardi

In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender via performances the place men include femininity and adult females embrace masculinity.

 

Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to review and practice with dancers. via formal interviews and informal dialog, Sunardi learns approximately their lives and artwork. Her paintings indicates how performers consistently remodel dance traditions to barter, and renegotiate, the limits of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing traces of demarcation, occasionally transgressing them, and occasionally doing either concurrently. yet Sunardi's research strikes past functionality. It expands notions of the religious energy linked to girl our bodies and female habit, and the methods ladies, males, and waria (male-to-female transvestites) entry the magnetic strength of femaleness.

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In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender via performances the place men embrace femininity and adult females embrace masculinity. Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to check and practice with dancers. via formal interviews and informal dialog, Sunardi learns approximately their lives and artwork.

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