Writer, Dancer
Andrea Liu is a writer, satirist, political activist, and modern dancer in New York. Her dance group DAFOPE (Dance as a Form of Political Expression) uses the medium of dance to critique the cultural ghettoization of dance in our society and the perversion of dance to objectify women. She has worked or written for The Nation, Women and Performance Journal, The Movement Research Journal (contributing editor), Zeek, and New York Arts Curve. Her political satire Recipe for Another Vietnam was performed at HERE, Collective Unconscious, the UFPJ Benefit Concert, the European Graduate School Theatre and next year's Women Center Stage. An avid LGBT activist, she was Chair of the Media Division of the Public Policy Committee of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on 13th Street. She now serves as a Steering Committee member of THAW (Theaters Against War) and is director of the Counter-Inauguration National Day Of Mourning Project. She was a literature major at Yale and thereafter studied literary criticism at the Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques in Paris, France.