"And it's not my fault, not where I was, not how I dressed."
Choreographer: Ianka Hou
Composer/Sound Designer: Ramin Roshandel
Costume Designer: Ianka Hou
Lighting Designer: Ianka Hou
Dancers: Dorothea Yu, Mackenzee Albert, Lauren Macke, Dharmini Piekarska, Talia Howard
This performance contains adult language.
No matter if you are at what age as a female, I hope you will stop blaming yourself for others' faults. And for others, I hope you will stop point fingers at women for their innocent existence in this world.
Thanks to all my dancers, my faculty advisor, and my music collaborator for helping me to allow this film to happen. I would like to show respect and appreciation to the protest for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November 2019. I would also like to show my appreciation for the song A Rapist in Your Path, created for the protest. Both the protest and the song inspired me to create this project. I would like to thank my mother for having a conversation about the victim's shaming of women with me, which inspired me to start this project.
Ianka Hou is a super senior at the University of Iowa who majors in dance and minors psychology. She will be graduating in the spring semester in 2021. Ianka is a dancer, a young choreographer, and a young dance film creator. She believes that dance is rooted in life, so we should not distance dance from the current world. Thus, she hopes to use dance to bring people's attention to the present society's issues. She also likes to talk about personal stories through dance, which helps her find closure with her past. She believes that dance is a universal language that brings closure to people. Finally, she thinks dance allows her to be passionate about life and always gives her new adventures to explore.