Queer the Ballet presents the world premiere of Dream of a Common Language from Friday, June 21 to Sunday, June 23, 2024, with performances at 7:30pm on June 21 and 22, and 2pm matinees on June 22 and 23. Performances will take place at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $40, with student tickets available for $25, and can be purchased online at https://ci.ovationtix.com/36678/production/1194112?performanceId=11435956.
Dream of a Common Language is a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection by the same name. Directed by Adriana Pierce, founder of Queer the Ballet, the program includes choreography by Adriana Pierce, Minnie Lane, Rosie Elliott, and Lenai Alexis Wilkerson with dramaturgy by Emily DeMaioNewton. 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...
Dream of a Common Language is a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection by the same name. Directed by Adriana Pierce, founder of Queer the Ballet, the program includes choreography by Adriana Pierce, Minnie Lane, Rosie Elliott, and Lenai Alexis Wilkerson with dramaturgy by Emily DeMaioNewton. 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...
- 4/19/2024
- by Music MCM
- Martin Cid Music
The folks at the House of Mouse love to mine myths and folk tales for their movies, and it's honestly amazing that it's taken them this long to adapt something else from the Arabic collection of stories, "One Thousand and One Nights." According to Deadline, Disney is making a live-action "fantasy and sci-fi-infused" movie inspired by the folk tale collection, which will be written and executive produced by Arash Amel. Amel recently wrote the based-on-a-true-story Disney+ movie "Rise," about a trio of brothers who became basketball champions, which was praised by audiences and critics alike.
According to Deadline's sources, the new movie will not be tied to any current Disney properties, even though "Aladdin" comes from "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp," one of the stories collected in the "One Thousand and One Nights." Other famous stories from the collection include "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,...
According to Deadline's sources, the new movie will not be tied to any current Disney properties, even though "Aladdin" comes from "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp," one of the stories collected in the "One Thousand and One Nights." Other famous stories from the collection include "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
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