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WHO WE ARE
Renversé Ballet (RB) was created as a virtual ballet community in June 2020.
Our purpose is to reach, support, and inspire diversity in the classical ballet industry through live instruction, written content, and original collaborations.
VALUES
We prioritize diversity because it drives innovation.
Innovation leads to exploration, change, and greater, grander storytelling.
It’s simple: We want more dancers to tell more stories, more often.
For many sociological reasons, ballet wields cultural influence and moral impact on audiences, patrons, citizens, and society. We have a duty, a civic responsibility to stand for what is right. We value teachable wisdom gained through a diversity of individual experiences, and we select and commission artists based on their ability to create environments which exemplify excellence and inclusivity.
When we love something, we want to share it, uplift it, and help confront its fears and problems. In our exquisite, bizarre, beautiful, and absurd artform, it can be difficult to discuss our hegemonic structures, traumas, political dynamics, and socio-economic barriers to entry. We value communication and discourse, listening, learning, unlearning, and relearning.
We love ballet down to our bones, but we believe ballet can be better.
Our purpose is to reach, support, and inspire diversity in the classical ballet industry through live instruction, written content, and original collaborations.
VALUES
We prioritize diversity because it drives innovation.
Innovation leads to exploration, change, and greater, grander storytelling.
It’s simple: We want more dancers to tell more stories, more often.
For many sociological reasons, ballet wields cultural influence and moral impact on audiences, patrons, citizens, and society. We have a duty, a civic responsibility to stand for what is right. We value teachable wisdom gained through a diversity of individual experiences, and we select and commission artists based on their ability to create environments which exemplify excellence and inclusivity.
When we love something, we want to share it, uplift it, and help confront its fears and problems. In our exquisite, bizarre, beautiful, and absurd artform, it can be difficult to discuss our hegemonic structures, traumas, political dynamics, and socio-economic barriers to entry. We value communication and discourse, listening, learning, unlearning, and relearning.
We love ballet down to our bones, but we believe ballet can be better.
MISSION + VISION
Renversé Ballet is committed to creating a more diverse, informed, inquisitive, and inclusive classical ballet community.
We achieve this through live ballet instruction, imagery, and information.
We are born of the BLM Movement and strive for intersectional diversity by offering:
Ballet's golden age is yet to unfold — and it will when it resonates with modern sensibilities and diversity.
We achieve this through live ballet instruction, imagery, and information.
We are born of the BLM Movement and strive for intersectional diversity by offering:
- A virtual platform and forum to foster greater access,
- Live classes and intensives led by international guest artists,
- Original educational content exploring systemic issues, and
- Collaborative performance opportunities for our global community.
Ballet's golden age is yet to unfold — and it will when it resonates with modern sensibilities and diversity.
Our values include access, diversity, inclusion, and representation because:
We believe in a ballet which elevates and empowers audiences and artists alike for authentically reflecting the depth and breadth of human experience.
Ballet owes, to itself and the world, this progress.
- Access provides equal passage, resources, and opportunities,
- Diversity recognizes that individuals are unique and offer unique stories and strengths,
- Inclusion creates safe spaces, instills a sense of belonging, and inspires innovation, and
- Representation provides equal opportunities to contribute to discourse and influence decisions.
We believe in a ballet which elevates and empowers audiences and artists alike for authentically reflecting the depth and breadth of human experience.
Ballet owes, to itself and the world, this progress.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
We are so thankful for our community! Read more about what we offer, in their own words.
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