MIAMI (AP) - A Miami dancer is drawing on her experiences as a show girl at a Little Havana cabaret in a new work with New York’s Ballet Hispanico.
The Miami Herald reports (https://hrld.us/1hGuC04 ) Rosie Herrera responded to an ad for dancers shorter than five-foot-five when she was 16.
She ended up performing in fishnet stockings, high heels and feathered headdresses alongside drag queens, comedians and middle-aged divas.
Herrera went on to study dance at the New World School of the Arts and at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
Her latest work is titled “Show.Girl.” and premieres this weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
In the piece, she uses the genre’s images, stereotypes and stagecraft to look at how femininity and masculinity are defined, particularly in the Latin culture.
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