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"The Devil Ties My Tongue" by Amy Seiwert performed for the SKETCH Series, 2013. Photo by David DeSilva. Courtesy of Amy Seiwert's Imagery
Dance Magazine: Can we all please acknowledge ballet’s sexism problem already?
Author: Courtney Escoyne
“On Friday, The New York Times posted an article to its website titled ‘A Conversation With 3 Choreographers Who Reinvigorated Ballet,’ a joint interview with Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky. It’s a delightful conversation at first, veering from process to style to musical choices—delightful, that is, until a question about the dearth of female choreographers in classical ballet arose.”
