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Author's note: Fan Dance is about Patricia Nelson, an ash blonde New Zealand showgirl who performed her risqué dance with ostrich feathers in Shanghai and then, for a brief season, in Sydney in 1938. The fan dance was first performed by Sally Rand at Chicago’s World Fair in 1933; she was arrested for indecent exposure. The poem interrogates the figure of the showgirl both as an object of voyeurism and subject of performative freedom.
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