Queer the Ballet 

Presents

Dream of a Common Language (World Premiere)
Please join us: 

Friday, June 21 at 7:30pm

Saturday June 22 at 2pm & 7:30pm

Sunday June 23 at 2pm 

 Baruch Performing Arts Center (Murray Hill, Manhattan)

New York, New York, March 27, 2024 – Choreographer Adriana Pierce created Queer the Ballet to broaden the scope of classical ballet to authentically include LGBTQ+ voices and narratives, focusing on queer cis women, trans people of all genders, and nonbinary dancers. Dream of a Common Language is a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection of the same name. Directed by Adriana Pierce, the program includes choreography by Pierce, Minnie Lane, Rosie Elliott, and Lenai Alexis Wilkerson. The story follows six dancers’ journeys through community, friendship, romance, and heartbreak, bringing to light the similarities between Adrienne Rich’s yearning for queer community in the ‘70s and queer ballet dancers’ current struggles to find each other. From mountaintops to dimly lit bars, this new ballet illuminates the struggles and joys of LGBTQ+ people through history and queer dancers today: all dreaming of a common language to connect them.                 

 

Tickets are available for purchase via this link:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36678/production/1194112?performanceId=11435956 

$40 / $24 students with ID    

More information about Queer the Ballet is available at https://www.queertheballet.com/ or on Facebook, Instagram, and X.