After getting out of the tribute and homage cultural frame, Romanian Dance History has shaken the prejudice dust out of its body and finally got out of the closet. Heterosexuality was never its game, after so many years of repressed desire it is time to enter the glam with pride.
Consider the dance history from the beginning, starting with the '30s, Gabriel Negry a famous dancer and choreographer, gay, but mostly in the closet!
Trixy Checais, another ghost of the romanian dance history, forced into canal labour in the '50s... the fact that he was gay was one of the tacit reasons for imprisoning him. Gabriel Popescu (the most famous classical dancer of the sixties), Gigi Caciuleanu, Gelu Barbu and of course our favorite Stere Popescu, they all fled in the west for artistic freedom but also for sexual freedom leaving a country were homosexuality was punished by law!! In the eighties also Gheorghe Iancu left the country, bisexual practices were of course unacceptable and "dangerous"!
Gay Romanian Dance History emigrated, the straight history stayed.
But it doesn't stop here, the trend continued and the gay tension was always there, this was not about the cliche homosexual sensibility that didn't fit in the totalitarian communist context, it was about being checked in the ass for anal seizures by the regime (this is not a metaphor), it was about social oppression and political violence.
Whether it was the fascist years of the thirties or the never ending communist period, or the recent transition towards capitalism, nobody talked about it openly but act accordingly, discrimination was, and still is, fierce.
It was always hidden, but yet with incredible effects on the lives of the protagonists of the dance history. At the Bucharest National Opera blackmailing dancers with their sexual orientation was common. After the revolution and decriminalization of homosexual practice the stigmata carried on... this time the prejudice was that if one had any success as a dancer and choreographer (as a man) in the western world it was surely because one sucked dick, as currency. The frustration of the hetero dancers at the Opera was unique in the field of classical ballet. Eastern ballet is a macho culture, make no mistake about it.
On the other hand, the Opera park, which is next to the building, was one of the only unofficial places for illegal love, in the bushes and behind the trees soloists of the opera were "living the dream"!
But no more, it is time to get out of the closet, to smile and dress camp, it's time for male breast feeding!
History wants its revenge, after a century of sexual claustration you can shamelessly shed a tear for the repressed past and enjoy male to male and female to female love.
Today the gay choreographers and dancers are stronger, they are here, in the history, the history is happier. But the artistic community is unaware of this repressed past, let's face it once and for all and put the queen crown!
In this video: Brynjar Bandlien and Paul Dunca doing male breast feeding!
The history is relaxed, finally out in the open!
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