About

Queer Dance Initiative (QDI) is a student group created in the School of Dance in Fall 2021 targeted toward LGBTQ+ students. This group works to promote and exercise queer awareness in the areas of social, political, cultural, and dance studies. They also organize and provide workshops designed to develop an understanding of queer dancers’ experiences in American society. Lastly, QDI functions as an advocacy organization for all queer dancers within the University of Utah, and the state of Utah.

QDI hosted a three-session workshop, open to all SOD students, in Voguing, a dance form that originated in queer communities that has historically been absent from the SOD curriculum. QDI has also drafted a letter to the SOD faculty asking for more queer inclusive language and spaces, and asking for stronger faculty-students lines of communication in regards to Belonging & Equal Opportunity work follow-through.

Leadership

TBD | Faculty Advisor

TBD | President

TBD | Vice-President

TBD | Treasurer

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