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Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds


Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds
As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.
Si-lan Chen in 1944. A socialist, she approached dance as a way to build international solidarity.Credit.Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, ADAGP, Paris 2021; Telimage
By Jennifer Wilson
May 27, 2021, 2:55 p.m. ET
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
In 1945, the dancer Si-lan Chen sent a draft of her memoir to the writer Pearl S. Buck, with a letter asking for her thoughts on why she was struggling to get the attention of a publisher. ....

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