Chandralekha is credited as being the first to make a place for contemporary dance in India. She used her own style of classical Bharata Natyam to convey social messages and and political critiques. Her work has a quality that allows it to reach diverse audiences and has toured internationally, per
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,