SAN FRANCISCO — The GLBT History Museum has announced it will present a special traveling exhibit beginning April 1, Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS. Featuring beautiful photographs and other documentation, Dancers We Lost is a comprehensive dance history project honoring performers who died due to complications of HIV/AIDS. The exhibit runs through August 7 at the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th St., in San Francisco.
The Dancers We Lost project includes an arts and public history exhibit 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. There also is a planned searchable database and biography file of each of the dancers.
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 exhibit about their work and a database providing accurate information about their lives and careers, Dancers We Lost ensures they will not be forgotten, anonymous virtuosos.
For more information on the Dancers We Lost project, go here.
