December 31st: New England Presenter Travel Fund, December 31st: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Scholarship, December 31st: 24 Seven Dance Convention, December 31st: National Theater Project Presenter Travel Grant, December 31st: Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
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By Kate Silzer 13 February 2021 In a powerful 2019 essay in Artforum, Hannah Black, Ciarán Finlayson, and Tobi Haslett made the case that artists who were slated for exhibition in the 2019 […]
By Julia Jacobs 19 September 2019 Over the past decade, there has been a sense in the art world that gender equity was on the horizon: Emerging female artists were […]
By Marina Harss 16 February 2021 On January 1, 2021, Uruguayan ballerina María Riccetto officially became the new director of her national ballet company, Ballet Nacional de Sodre. Seldom has the selection of […]
By Emily Dixon 10 February 2021 Shortly after Adriana Pierce joined Miami City Ballet, someone watched her train and made an assessment: “Is Adriana a lesbian? Because she looks like one.” The […]
By Zoe Phillips 09 February 2021 Last week, Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet celebrated the start of Black History Month with the launch of The Constellation Project, a star-studded online exhibition of dance […]
Growing up, I quit ballet as soon as the schools where I was training no longer required it. Because of ballet’s adherence to a strict gender binary, I often felt excluded and frustrated by the art form, even before I had the language to identify how it heightened my gender dysphoria.
By Margaret Fuhrer 05 February 2021 “How am I supposed to feel confident in myself when these are the ballet body standards?” begins a TikTok video by user @hardcorpsballet. The […]
