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Trans ballet dancers explore a lineage rooted in “travesty” productions of 1870s Paris.
While wrestling with the restrictions of the contemporary dance world, trans and non-binary dancers from Katy Pyle's Ballez company trace their place in a lineage of drag and gender-play stretching out from the "travesty" productions of 1870s Paris.
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Travesty: Preview
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While wrestling with the restrictions of the contemporary dance world, trans and non-binary dancers from Katy Pyle's Ballez company trace their place in a lineage of drag and gender-play stretching out from the "travesty" productions of 1870s Paris.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMarkovitz: I think ballet is inherently queer.
Pyle: There was like a hundred-year period where there were no men in ballet.
The way that gender gets expressed was, like, codified in this period entirely by female dancers.
Salman: All of us come to this piece with a different experience of our own gender.
Pyle: I wanted to, like, work with a young group of all trans and nonbinary, like, highly ballet-trained people.
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