SOLD OUT – Open Rehearsal Showing for Daphnis & Chloë with Christopher Williams Dance

Open Rehearsal Showing for Daphnis & Chloë with Christopher Williams Dance 
Date & Time: Sunday August 3, 2-3PM
Fee: FREE! Community Program
SOLD OUT 

Join us at Bethany Arts Community for an open rehearsal showing of both solo and group material for Daphnis & Chloë, the newest evening-length work in Christopher Williams’s ‘Queering’ the Canon: Reimagining the Ballet Russes series, performed by a cast of acclaimed up-and-coming transgender and non-binary dancers. The showing will also include a question and answer session as well as an open discussion between the dancers, the assembled audience, and Christopher Williams. 

Inspired by ancient Greek romancer Longus’s 2nd century novel Daphnis & Chloé: Story of a Lesbian Romance (on which it is based), Daphnis & Chloé features cast of transgender, non-binary, and female-identifying dancers in order to foreground oft absent or marginalized aspects of transgender/queer feminine agency and desire in classical dance. As “queering” concepts in previous works by Williams have allowed him to spin tales championing countless LGBTQIA+ individuals struggling today to freely express their gender and sexual identity, featuring powerful transgender/non-binary leads Daphnis & Chloé will allow him to expand the scope of his queer inclusion, offering genderqueer alternatives to traditional pas de deux pairings that challenge ballet’s long-standing tendency to promote heteronormative stereotypes.  

www.christopherwilliamsdance.org
IG: @faycavalier 

This event is a Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner.

Main photograph by Steven Pisano.