Andrew Champlin / Elizabeth Ward / Kevin Fay / Anna Leon: Bad Ballet

Sat 15.06., from 12h, Workshop & Lecture 

What about a ballet class where everyone can dance repertory material, and cookies are offered rather than frowned upon? What about a dance history that looks beneath opera houses and celebrated figures, beyond the whiteness of imperialism, into unacknowledged pasts of ballet?

In "Bad Ballet", three dance artists and a dance historian counter the homogenisation, discipline and hierarchies often associated with ballet through desire, exchange and joy. Andrew Champlin, Elizabeth Ward and Kevin Fay will co-facilitate a virtuosity-indifferent class, share their research and the ballet stories carried in their bodies, and transmit choreographic material based on "The Nutcracker". Anna Leon will propose a lecture exploring non-centralised, invisibilised histories of ballet as a popular entertainment spectacle.

Programme:
12–16h: workshop
16–17h: break / meal
17–18.30h: lecture

Both class and talk are open, without a prerequisite of having studied ballet.