Ep 11: Reshaping Our Demons with Katy Pyle

ReVisioning the Arts

Katy Pyle of the Ballez Company joins us to talk about the origins of the company and their journey in starting this alternative queer ballet troupe.

Katy speaks to how the evils and wrongdoings that we experience, and the way that they stick with us, can lead us to an expression of our own values and desires.

This is a conversation for anyone who has struggled with abusive systems and has, or longs to have, a community surround them in working towards a healing alternative.

Katy Pyle is a genderqueer lesbian dancer, choreographer and teacher. Pyle has been dancing professionally in New York City since 2002 for John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Faye Driscoll, Ivy Baldwin, Xavier Le Roy, and Young Jean Lee, among others. Pyle founded Ballez in 2011 to push classical ballet towards an inclusive future by centering the experiences of queer, lesbian, trans, and gender non-conforming people within the creation of large-scale story ballets, open classes, and public conversations. Major story ballets: “The Firebird, a Ballez,” Danspace Project, 2013, “Sleeping Beauty & the Beast,” La Mama, 2016 and "Giselle of Loneliness," The Joyce, 2021. Pyle has brought Ballez to Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Movement Research, CounterPULSE, Bowdoin, Whitman, Beloit, Slippery Rock University, Rutgers, Berea and Swarthmore. Pyle currently teaches undergraduates at Eugene Lang College and Marymount Manhattan, and professional dancers at Gibney Dance. ballez.org

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"Theme for Julia," by Mira Treatman, licensed under CC BY 2.0