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Role models. Many female dancers dealt with given role structures and criticized gender specific role attributions. The nun is seen as embodiment of a nonsexual woman who dedicates her life to God. Hence the play with the nun’s costume is a game with female physicality and sexuality. Here we meet Mura Ziperowitsch, who by wearing a nun similar costume refers to the female corporality.
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Alexander [Sasha] Stewart ::
Stage Masks. Chorus girls singing on stage, whilst wearing eye masks, 1930. | src Getty Images
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Susan de Witt :: After Midnight. From womenSEEwomen exhibition at
Porto Photo Fest
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James Cagney and Anita Louise in
Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) / src: IMDb
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