Dancing with the Queers

Dancing with the Queers Dancing with the Queers is a same-sex ballroom and latin dance program. You bring your love of danc

02/08/2023

'Two dancers' ('Deux danseurs'), 1949, by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904-89).

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by Yevgeniy Repiashenko

01/09/2022

A beautiful poem and reminder from Hafiz, a 14th century Sufi.
I sometimes forget
that I was created for Joy.
My mind is too busy.
My Heart is too heavy
for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the Sacred dance of life.
I was created to smile
To Love
To be lifted up
And to lift others up.
O’ Sacred One
Untangle my feet
from all that ensnares.
Free my soul.
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.
~ Hafiz

11/20/2021

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10/21/2021

by Jewel Mathieson:

We have come to be danced
Not the pretty dance
Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
But the claw our way back into the belly
Of the sacred, sensual animal dance
The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
The holding the precious moment in the palms
Of our hands and feet dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the jiffy b***y, shake your b***y for him dance
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
One two dance like you
One two three, dance like me dance
but the grave robber, tomb stalker
Tearing scabs and scars open dance
The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
Shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance
The strip us from our casings, return our wings
Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
The shed dead cells and slip into
The luminous skin of love dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity, the body breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
The mother may I?
Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance
The olly olly oxen free free free dance
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced
Where the kingdoms collide
In the cathedral of flesh
To burn back into the light
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
To root in skin sanctuary
We have come to be danced

WE HAVE COME.
poem by Jewel Mathieson

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Image of Pearl Primus dancing is by Gerda Peterich

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Dancers' movements seem to bend the laws of physics in Wendy Morgan's video for C2C's latest track featuring Derek Martin. 

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Dancing with the Qu**rs same-sex ballroom tango class, Oakland
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Oct 2010 beginning tango class routine.

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