St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue), New York, NY, 10003
United States
Admission: $18 General Admission | $12 Danspace members
Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist whose works explore fantasy, transformation, queer failure, and the lineage of performance. Her “Ballez” works are ballet-inspired theatricals with female-assigned queer and transpeople redefining traditional gender roles, technical expectations, and stories of ballet through the queering of this classic form.
The Firebird, a Ballez follows a yearning Lesbian Princess and a Tranimal (part bird, part Prince) as they seek liberation in a magically perverse landscape of Polyamorous Princes and their Dominant Sorceress. Accompanied by the Queer Urban Orchestra, a simulated landscape by Hedia Maron, costumes by Mikki Olson, and a cast of 15 queer performers, the work challenges the roles that ballet has classically prescribed, and seeks new embodied expression.
Performers include Jules Skloot (Firebird), Cassie Mey (Sorceress), Katy Pyle (Lesbian Princess), Effie Bowen, Devynn Emory, Zari Esaian, Leah Hafezi, Sam Miller, Francis Rabkin, Mary Read, Lindsay Reuter, Lollo Romanski, Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow, Sacha Yanow, and Nyx Zierhut (Princes).
Lighting Designer Carol Mullins
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