LGBTQIA2S+ Pride resources, websites, videos and publications

The RAD’s LGBTQIA2S+ Working Group recently made a presentation to colleagues on the history of Pride. To accompany this, they shared a list of resources and links to explore.

LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Resources

• The Trevor Project
• GLAAD
• The Human Rights Campaign
• PFLAG
• Stonewall
• Pride 101: LGBTQIA2S+ Terminology – University of Calgary

Websites

• Sapphic Opera Singers & Lesbian Classical Musicians Throughout History
• LGBTQ(IA2S+) Ballet dancers
• #QueertheBallet
• Stone wall inclusive workplace
• Supporting LGBTQ+ Students In The Dance Studio
• A History of Ballroom Culture and it’s Legends
• A Queer History of The Ballet by Peter Stoneley
• Brief History of the Pride flag
• Mind Mid Herts – Pride at work

Note: To explore the selected RAD library resources, click here

RAD Library

Chosen by the Faculty of Education’s Lee Davall, and the RAD’s LGBTQIA2S+ Working Group.

• Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On and Off the Stage (242.5)
• Sexuality, Gender and Identity: Critical Issues in Dance Education – Edited by Doug Risner and Julie A. Kerr-Berry  (2016) (151:242.5)
• Dance and Gender: An Evidence-based Approach – Edited by Wendy Olivier and Doug Risner  (2017) (242.5)
• A Queer History of the Ballet – Stoneley, Peter  (2007) (242.53)
• Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-making – Buckland, Fiona  (2002)  242.53(73
• Queer Dance: Meaning and Making – Edited by Clare Croft  (2017)  242.53
• Men, Masculinities and Sexualities in Dance: Transgression and its limits – Andria Christofidou  (2021)  242.51
• The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky, (395NIJ:242.53)
• Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why boys (don’t) dance – Doug Risner, Beccy Watson editors  (2022) 242.51
• Loïe Fuller: Magician of Light – a loan exhibition at the Virginia Museum – March 12-April 22, 1979. Organized by Margaret Haile Harris (1979) Reference Dance Collection – Catalogues & Listings
• My Life and Dancing – Maud Allan  (1908) (395ALL and special book collection shelf 2a)

RAD Library – DVD’s

• The Car Man  /  Bourne, Matthew (D1CAR)
• DV8 Physical Theatre (Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men ; Enter Achilles ; Strange Fish) (1990) D23(410.1)DV8
• Girl / A film by Lukas Dhont ; choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (2019) (D9GIR)
• Les Ballets Trockadero: Ballet 1 / Riolon, Luc , Dobrin, Tory , McDougle, Eugene , Gonzales, Mike , Marsh, Kip , Duplat, François , Asquith, Helen & Durand, Pierre-Michel (2001) D23(73)BAL

Videos

• The Story Behind the First Gay Pride March | Pride History | Amazon Music
• How the LGBTQ community created voguing
• Five elements of Vogue with Leiomy Maldonado – The Wonder Woman of Vogue
• Ballroom Culture – How Ballroom Changed Everything For Marginalised People
• Ballroom Culture: the Language of Vogue | Ronald Murray | TEDxColumbus

Podcasts

• Audible – Celebrating Queer Voices

Ongoing list of notable LGBTQIA2S+ Choreographers/Dancers

• List of LGBTQ+ Ballet Dancers

Australia

• Robert Helpmann, Sadler Wells Ballet/Australia Ballet

Brazil

• Marcelo Gomes, American Ballet Theatre

Canada

• Maud Allan, contemporary dance
• Reid Anderson, National Ballet of Canada/Stuttgart Ballet
• Christopher Gillis, Paul Taylor Dance Company
• James Kudelka, National Ballet of Canada
• Keith Hennessy, Circozero
• Emma Portner, Emma Portner and Artists

China

• Jin Xing, ballet

Croatia

• Rod Riffler, contemporary dance

Cuba

• Lazaro Cuervo Costa, Afro-Cuban dance

Czech Republic

• Yemi Akinyemi Dele, Dance Academy Prague/JAD Dance Company

Finland

• Tiina Lindfors, Dance Theatre ERI

France

• Dominique Bagouet – Centre Choreographique Languedoc- Roussillon at Montpellier
• Maurice Bejart, Béjart Ballet Lausanne
• Alain Buffard
• Yanis Marshall, ‘La Meilleure Danse’

Greece

• Dimitris Papaioannou, Olympic Games ceremonies

India

• Navtej Singh Johar, Bharatanatyam dance

Iran

• Mohammad Khordadian, Persian dance

Italy

• Bruno Tonioli, ‘Dancing With the Stars’

New Zealand

• Alexander Grant, Sadler Wells Theatre Ballet
• Michael Parmenter, Commotion/New Zealand Dance Company

Portugal

• Marcelino Sambe, Royal Ballet

Russia

• Yevgeny Kharitonov, pantomime
• Boris Kochno, Ballets Russes
• Serge Lifar, Paris Opera, Ballets Russes
• Leonide Massine, Ballets Russes
• Boris Moiseyev/ Boris Moiseev, pop music choreographer
• Vaslav Nijinski, Ballets Russes
• Rudolf Nureyev, Royal Ballet, Paris Opera

Spain

• Nacho Duato, Berlin State Ballet
• Antonio Najarro, National Ballet of Spain

Taiwan

• Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

The Netherlands

• Rudi Van Dantzig, Dutch National Ballet

UK

• Frederick Ashton, Royal Ballet
• Rikki Beadle-Blair, contemporary dance
• Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne Dance Company
• Warren Carlyle, theatre
• Rupert Doone, classical ballet
• Craig Revel Horwood, Commonwealth Games and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
• Drew McConie, theatre, ballet, film
• Alex Scurr, Gay Men’s Dance Company
• Wayne Sleep, Royal Ballet
• Louie Spence, Pineapple Dance Studios
• Antony Tudor, ballet
• Christopher Wheeldon, ballet
• Ben Wright, bgroup
• Jules Cunningham, Julie Cunningham and Company

United States

• Kyle Abraham, Abraham in Motion
• Alvin Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
• Rob Ashford, theatre and television
• Arthur Aviles, Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre/BADD!
• Michael Bennett, ‘A Chorus Line’
• Michael Berresse, theatre and film
• Candis Cayne, film
• Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
• Sean Dorsey, Sean Dorsey Dance Company
• Gina Gibney, Gibney Dance
• Trajal Harrell, contemporary dance
• Julianne Hough, Dancing With The Stars reality television series
• Robert Joffrey, Joffrey Ballet
• Bill T. Jones, theatre
• Mark Kanemura, pop music video choreographer/Broadway Dance Center
• Rob Marshall, theatre and film
• Trey McIntyre, Trey McIntyre Project
• Jeremy McQueen, Black Iris Project/Joffrey Ballet
• James Mitchell, television shows
• Jerry Mitchell, Broadway Bares
• Marion Morgan, film choreographer
• Mark Morris, ballet
• Willi Ninja, creator of vogueing dance style
• Justin Peck, New York City Ballet
• Joshua Peugh, Dark Circle Contemporary Dance Company
• Brontez Purnell, ‘The Younger Lovers’
• Jerome Robbins, ballet
• Fatima Robinson, Super Bowl shows
• Yvonne Rainer, contemporary dance
• Benjamin Schwimmer, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
• Adam Shankman, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
• Ted Shawn, Denishawn/Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers/Jacobs Pillow
• Elizabeth Streb, Streb Extreme Action Company
• Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor Dance Company
• Tommy Tune, theatre
• Travis Wall, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
• Dashaun Williams, Vogue Evolution
• Robert Wilson, Watermill Center
• Isadora Duncan, Mother of Modern Dance
• Adriana Pierce, #QueertheBallet
• Katy Pyle, Ballez
• Meg Harper, Ballez
• James B. Whiteside, American Ballet Theatre
• Leiomy Maldonado, Wonder Woman of Vogue