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QueerCalendarPREMIERE: May 16-18, 2013, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
REPRISE: October 24-26, 2013, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
EXCERPTS: June 7, 2014, Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays
EXCERPTS: January 10 & 11, 2015, American Realness at Abrons Art Center
The Firebird, a Ballez is a Ballez version of Mikhail Fokine and Igor Stravinsky's eponymous 1910 ballet. Pyle introduces a yearning Lesbian Princess and a Tranimal (part bird, part Prince) as they seek liberation in a magically perverse landscape of Polyamorous Princes and their Magical Sorceress. Using Fokine's journals to shape the narrative structure and aesthetic choices, Pyle found themself moved by his idea that "each ballet's movements should be specific to the culture it represents."
photos by Angela JimeñezAccompanied by the Queer Urban Orchestra, a simulated landscape by Hedia Maron, costumes by Mikki Olson, and a cast of 15 queer performers, including Pyle, the work deconstructs balletic elements and reconstitutes them into a community-oriented, gender-fluid, queer utopian vision of what is possible in performance.
Broadway World says,
"(Pyle's) choreography utilizes the classical ballet vocabulary, but in novel and audacious ways, leaving (their) audience entertained and laughing out loud."
