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Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué from Cornell University, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance. Elissa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place in Rockefeller Hall 374, NOT the Kahin Center. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

About the Talk

For Filipinx, there is a strange familiarity in the practice of the Korean pop (K-pop) dance cover which can be traced to Philippine variety show dance crazes of the 1990s. Recreating the choreography of Filipino variety show dance crews has long been a national pastime for the Philippines and its diaspora. However, in looking beyond the country’s reputation as the “land of the great imitators” we can instead examine Filipinx mimicry as a powerful myth-making medium. In reproducing racialized masculine iconography through the “splendid dancing” of aspirational Asian male figures, Filipinx have established a decades-long repertoire of playful queer self-fashioning.

About the Speaker

Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué (they/she) is a 6th year PhD candidate at Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts. Their project explores race, gender, and fandom with a particular interest in racialized performances of Asianness within short form popular dance on New Media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube. They are a Deans Scholar and a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellow. You can find them performing on stage with Cornell Filipino Association’s traditional and Sinigang dance troupes, exhibiting Filipino martial arts with Kali Club at Cornell, and creating content on New Media platforms in the form of dance, animation, and comedy shorts. E’s research has been supported by the Dean’s Excellence and Martin F. Hatch Dissertation Research Fellowships.

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