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How multicultural artists face pressure to simplify their identities

I grew up doing Irish step dancing and bharatanatyam and want to choreograph a piece that uses both but everyone expects me to pick one tradition to represent

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social expectations for singular cultural representation deny the complexity of lived multicultural experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cross-cultural creativity — aesthetics across traditions?”

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