Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ People ] [ New York City ]
As a teen, Arthur Aviles didn’t dare entertain becoming a dancer.
Raised by Puerto Rican parents in the South Bronx, he knew to avoid anything that threatened masculine norms.
“The male-female thing was very strict in my family,” says Aviles, 44.
“I thought there was one persona to be, and dance was not in that persona.””*
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