BUCK:SKIN:RAW - except from Weaving Spirits Festival
As a Butch Queen, dancing and performance of masculinity shift and changes. Dancing the buck, the earthly symbol of Sacred Rain: Tlaloc, as I was taught growing up, balances and leaps through binaries. And, water is sacred, as both a cleanser and an infuser. Being a “skin,” wearing skins, and code-switching drags as a Indigequeer Queen, marks and unmarks my own flesh…leaving my spirit raw and open.
Performer: P. Don'Té Cuauhtémoc
Videographer: Weaving Spirits Festival
Editor: Cuauhtémoc Peranda
About Cuauhtémoc Peranda
Cuauhtémoc Peranda, MFA (Mescalero Apache, Mexika-Chichimeca/Cano; & cihuaiolo butch queen: they/he/she/Father) is a Critical Dance Studies Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Their research and writing focuses on a critical review of the United States’ House Ballroom Scene, and the deployment of the political resistance and critique of vogue. As a dance artist, they have performed throughout California, and has presented dance work in New York, Seattle, London, Honolulu, Berlin, Cambridge, Mexico City and Tijuana. They walk and raise children in the West Coast Ballscenes, and they're known as "Don'Té Peaches 007."
BUCK:SKIN:RAW - except from Weaving Spirits Festival
As a Butch Queen, dancing and performance of masculinity shift and changes. Dancing the buck, the earthly symbol of Sacred Rain: Tlaloc, as I was taught growing up, balances and leaps through binaries. And, water is sacred, as both a cleanser and an infuser. Being a “skin,” wearing skins, and code-switching drags as a Indigequeer Queen, marks and unmarks my own flesh…leaving my spirit raw and open.
Performer: P. Don'Té Cuauhtémoc
Videographer: Weaving Spirits Festival
Editor: Cuauhtémoc Peranda
About Cuauhtémoc Peranda
Cuauhtémoc Peranda, MFA (Mescalero Apache, Mexika-Chichimeca/Cano; & cihuaiolo butch queen: they/he/she/Father) is a Critical Dance Studies Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Their research and writing focuses on a critical review of the United States’ House Ballroom Scene, and the deployment of the political resistance and critique of vogue. As a dance artist, they have performed throughout California, and has presented dance work in New York, Seattle, London, Honolulu, Berlin, Cambridge, Mexico City and Tijuana. They walk and raise children in the West Coast Ballscenes, and they're known as "Don'Té Peaches 007."