Please join us Friday, April 1 for a special opening party at The GLBT History Museum, celebrating our new exhibition "Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS." Refreshments will be served.
The show features dramatic photographs and other documentation brought together by a comprehensive dance-history project honoring performers who died due to complications of HIV/AIDS.
DANCERS WE LOST
April 1 – August 7
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th St., San Francisco
Opening Night Rece...
Please join us Friday, April 1 for a special opening party at The GLBT History Museum, celebrating our new exhibition "Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS." Refreshments will be served.
The show features dramatic photographs and other documentation brought together by a comprehensive dance-history project honoring performers who died due to complications of HIV/AIDS.
DANCERS WE LOST
April 1 – August 7
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th St., San Francisco
Opening Night Reception: April 1, 7 pm – 9 pm, $5 donation
ABOUT DANCERS WE LOST
The "Dancers We Lost" project includes an arts and public-history exhibition showing the dancers in their prime performing in myriad venues including Broadway and Las Vegas shows, dance concerts, TV variety shows, films, ballet, music videos, and commercials. A searchable database and biography file of each of the dancers also is in the works.
The AIDS pandemic struck the performing arts particularly hard. "Dancers We Lost" is an important step in documenting and bringing to light the lives and contributions of performers, most of whom tragically died young. With an exhibition about their work and a database providing accurate information about their lives and careers, "Dancers We Lost" ensures that these virtuousos will not be forgotten.
For more information, visit the project website:
www.dancerswelost.org
ABOUT IMPACT STORIES
"Dancers We Lost" is presented by Impact Stories, an oral history project run by independent researcher and historian Glenne McElhinney. The project is sponsored by the California LGBT Arts Alliance, a 501(c)3 organization that supports the arts in the Golden State. The exhibition premiered in June 2015 at West Hollywood, California, as part of the summer programming around various venues within the city.
All photographs, scrapbooks, personal papers, biography files and other items collected by the project will go to the Museum of Performance + Design in San Francisco, the largest dance and performing-arts archives on the West Coast.