Dance Workshop: When the Body Refuses a Single Answer (English & Mandarin)

From its very beginnings, the blues has stood alongside those whom mainstream society has refused to truly see. It emerged from poverty, racial oppression, lives shaped by movement, bodies worn by labour, and desires that could find no place in the language of respectability. In times when people were not permitted to “speak”, they carved out spaces for themselves through sound and the body. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith,…