#trans dancer

[sarielsnowings]

“The modern gentleman is, above all, a self-made man” 🌹

It’s my take on Marlowe Lune’s DTIYS!

Yes I have a million other things to work on at the moment, but when I saw Marlowe’s “Modern Gentlemen” illustration and the wonderful concept behind it I couldn’t help myself. I had to take a stab at it. So I went at it from my own perspective, deriving inspiration from some of my favourite things from the beginning of the XX century (1920s-30s movie posters, ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, German expressionist cinema, Leyendecker’s illustrations and William Morris’ botanical decorations among them) to create a poster/magazine cover for a supposed upcoming ballet, featuring its transmasc lead dancer as the focus of the piece.

This was challenging to put together but I���m overall very pleased with the results, and I can’t wait to hear what you all think about it!

Also, here’s a secret, alternate version with a light background and the original artwork by Marlowe:

[tssexxcylexx]

Let Me Be Your Naughty Girl

[aralezinspace]

I’ve been struggling to phrase the sentiment behind these photos, aside from the fact that my friend is amazing and super fun to shoot with.

It wasn’t until doing this shoot, followed by watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, that it hit me just how similar dance and stage combat are. Stage combat is a partnered dance with violence. A partnered dance can also evoke a fight, can evoke violence. And I’ve found that both give me gender euphoria that I can’t even begin to describe.

I’ve never felt totally comfortable in my body (too many issues to thank for that). I’m getting there, slowly but surely I’m getting there. Just have to keep reminding myself that every body is a dance body- yes Aralez that includes bodies that aren’t feminine and super skinny, that includes bodies that dance primarily through combat and bodies that fight through dance, and definitely includes trans bodies.

[jotrolldance]

The tension of being an "artist with a marginalized identity"

[Tl;dr Sometimes I struggle between the balance between honoring my identities and simply just enjoying dance because it is complicated.] Hi, my name is Jo. I’m a Jewish, physically disabled, neurodivergent, trans aroace Irish dancer and creator. This is how artistic bios and introductions read these days. Mine too. It’s a complicated thing. But, as I read more and more bios from “multiply…

[transweasel]

personal rant this time instead of general political shite

being a trans guy in ballet around showtime is so fuckinh difficult i've been blessed to have a supportive school and group but it's me and one slightly older guy who is very obviously a much better and more experienced dancer then i am, he can jump fully over my head and the point of the storyline is we're 'competing' with each other (it's swan lake-inspired so very gender roles-esque) and it makes me feel so shit every time i'm near him cos he has this cisman stage presence and this insane dancing ability that i cant compete with at all. he's 6 foot tall (im BARELY 5'6) and i love him he's lovely but i kind of want to kms every time i'm around him lol

that's it thanks xoxo

[lithellyl]

If I had a metric butt load of money I had a great idea for a performance piece I would LOVE to do once I'm completely post op

The performance starts, I am wearing one of these silicone muscle suits and hyper realistic masks, (bonus if I could get the mask custom made to look like a masculinized version of my face)

I would also have silicone feet and gloves and.......other parts belonging to a man, just to make this costume completely realistic and fully covering me

I would choreograph myself in a clumsy, stiff and restricted manner showcasing how awkward and uncomfortable I am in this skin, the dance slowly becomes more and more frantic

At it's apex of the dance I take it into an aerial silks rig (the silks themselves would be coloured like the trans pride flag

As I climb the silks I wrap them around me into a cocoon

This is when I begin peeling the male suit off me (, literally RIPPING it off)

And then out of the discarded male flesh in the cocoon climbs the real me! Lithe and graceful, dancing completely in control and in tune with my body

[fianaigecht]

Barre carefully positioned to hide the fact that my brand new leggings ripped at the crotch doing grands jetés at class the other day, which is honestly just incredibly rude of them.

This was my first full class back in... a while; I had to take it easy throughout the autumn because I was recovering from COVID and was avoiding cardio. The Coppélia auditions I did that I posted about a few weeks ago were the only time I did a full class without skipping allegro, and being an audition, it was a bit slower, with more waiting around learning things. Otherwise, I was only doing partial classes and pas de deux the whole time, so this was my first full 1.5-hour class, allegro included. My heartrate was in the peak range throughout, because apparently my cardio fitness is BAD these days. Hoping to work on that over the next couple of months.

Still wearing a mask to class, even though it gets gross and sweaty, to try and avoid a repeat of the COVID that wrecked my fitness in the first place! Coppélia rehearsals start in a couple of weeks and it looks like I'll be spending most of my weekends at the studio, so I'll either be posting here more, or not at all.

[bleakcinema]

So! Fun story: I've been a pole dancer since the start of the pandemic. I've won a gold medal for dramatic choreography and it's been amazing for my mental health. I'll be sharing some of my favorite dances, bloopers, and training reels since I consider dance, stunt, and cosplay as the Holy Trinity of my mental wellbeing and joy.

Please enjoy this video of my first ever performance YEARS ago.

[exponential-crabs]

stage rehearsal done for dance!!!! overall pretty good, totally flubbed the last dance though because i snagged my bad thumb because my body hates me but oh wellllllll tomorrow is another day and then it is done. cracking my back like a glowstick rn. also was pretty comfortable gender-wise bc i wore my favorite masc tanktop and i just gotta pray that the good body vibes today carry me through tomorrow.

[yourdailyqueer]

Mercury Stardust

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 8 December 1987

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Youtuber, influencer, writer, activist, dancer, teacher

[aralezinspace]

I said yes to the shoes! 🩰they’re Gaynors ✨brace yourself, thoughts and feels incoming.

Yesterday was a day that has been a long time coming, almost 10 years to be exact. I have danced on and off for most of my life, and always wanted to be able to go on pointe just for all the creative possibilities. When I was a musical theatre major, I had to take lots of dance classes, including ballet. My intent was to work towards going on pointe while at college, through the local dance studio that two of my teachers owned and taught at.

It soon became apparent these teachers did not see any value in me as a student, dancer, or person, and contributed greatly to the emotional abuse that made my time in the major the worst and hardest three years of my life.

10 years later, I decided to get back into ballet, both at home during Covid, then taking classes once the studio reopened. There are no words to describe what it felt like to enjoy dancing again, to be comfortable in my body and mind in a studio, to know that I wouldn’t be neglected and passed over as a student because of a perceived lack of value. And to be encouraged and guided by several teachers when I expressed the desire to go on pointe.

Yesterday was important not just because of how long it had taken me to get there, but because I was going on pointe as a trans non-binary person. The ballet world is still strictly and rigidly gendered, to the detriment of both masc and femme presenting dancers. It’s important to me that I do this as my full authentic self, to do my own little part to make this art that gives me such gender euphoria more welcoming and open to dancers of all orientations 🏳️‍🌈

[little-red-fool]

I realised that I’ve never drawn Raphael with top surgery scars in his human form so I fixed that.

[npddoll]

⟡ ﹔angel(core) name/titles

⑅ names

"etherine, evangeline, angelette, seraphina, micah, diana, ariel, klara, solange, mia, alyssa, gabriel, aura, evan, theodore/theodora, leto, ella"

⑅ titles

"the winged one, the angelic one, the heavenly one, prn from above, spirit of the divine, prn who watches from the sky, the angel of (god/whatever), the virtue of light, the guardian angel, the seraph"

notes . . requested by anon

[fianaigecht]

Something something Judith Butler gender is created through repeated actions but also I really appreciate the uni ballet society's no-fuss approach to gender when it comes to their shows. When I started performing with them in 2015, it was all done on assigned gender, and the first time I asked if I could dance the male part, in 2018, it was kinda awkward. Now it's just, 'What costume do you want?' and checking in with the teacher choreographing your section to make sure they're giving you the right arm positions, or whatever.

[zakeno]

Wait just ONE MORE

I have decided because it’s fun content and I enjoy making it, and I love the smiles I get when I go out in public and dance for people and take photos with smiling kids in my Silly Little Man costume, aka the reason I am comfortable in my body today as a trans disabled person, and able to dance at all:

This is TADAA! The Cool Guy Phantom of Los Angeles! He likes to be cool, make friends, and dance all night long! :3

TADAA! Actually helped me get over my body dysphoria. I learned to dance because I wanted to get over how much I hated my body so the character could be able to dance when I played him… so I learned even though it made me sick to look at and study my body like that. But putting on TADAA! Made me feel really confident and better about myself, and after a while, I didn’t need to put him on to dance in front of a camera. He actually taught me my body was talented and beautiful just like it was, I didn’t need to cover up for that to be true.

Now he’s my goofy Los Angeles undead beach himbo who runs around causing positive chaos. I even went to AX in him one year in 106’F heat because I love being insane and I love playing his character and bringing out joy in both others and myself.

Thank you to Mochiri works for making this possible!!

[yourdailyqueer]

Jahna Steele (deceased)

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 29 September 1958

RIP: 24 January 2008

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Sex worker, showgirl, entertainer, model