SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Company:
Katy Pyle & Jules Skloot with the Ballez
SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Directed By Katy Pyle
Choreographed by Katy Pyle & Jules Skloot with the Ballez
Friday-Saturday, June 13-14 @ 8:00pm | Sunday, June 15 @ 6:00pm
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income [Buy Tickets]
In Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, trouble arises when the daughter of a Lower East Side garment industry king falls for a lesbian fiber artist at her 16th birthday party. The Violet Faery puts everyone to sleep for 100 years so that the Princess can come out instead in 1993.
In this new Ballez, queers return to the problematic form of ballet under Pyle's direction to write a new story from the archetypal tales of Sleeping Beauty, as created by Petipa in 1890, and Beauty and the Beast, as created by the radical lesbian theater company Split Britches in 1983.
This production continues the work of Ballez, which wrestles with the reality of queer bodies within the heteronormative, elitist form of ballet; utilizing queer magic and adaptability to find freedom and beauty in a community driven project of research, queer narrative creation, and evolving performance. [Learn more]
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Sleeping Beauty and the Beast was created during the BAX Artist in Residence (AIR) program which provides participating artists with one to two years of uninterrupted artistic, technical, and administrative support, as well as the rehearsal space and guidance necessary to take chances, refine their craft and expand their horizons.
From the Open Studio Series to the Works-In-Progress Series, the AIR program offers a rare opportunity to follow a work and engage the creators in a full arc of development.
Visit artistservices.bax.org/residencies for more information.
BAX's Artist Services Programs are supported by generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, M&T Charitable Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
