Dance Magazine: Can we all please acknowledge ballet’s sexism problem already?
"The Devil Ties My Tongue" by Amy Seiwert performed for the SKETCH Series, 2013. Photo by David DeSilva. Courtesy of Amy Seiwert's Imagery
Dance Magazine: Can we all please acknowledge ballet’s sexism problem already?
Author: Courtney Escoyne
“On Friday, The New York Times posted an article to its website titled ‘A Conversation With 3 Choreographers Who Reinvigorated Ballet,’ a joint interview with Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky. It’s a delightful conversation at first, veering from process to style to musical choices—delightful, that is, until a question about the dearth of female choreographers in classical ballet arose.”
