Mi - Fr every two weeks 12.00 - 13.30 h in DOCK 11 Saal 1
Booking:
- PROFIKLASSE BUCHEN a 7.- Euro.
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This class is welcoming everyone. We intend to create a Safe(r) Environment for the LGBTQ+ community, of course this is our Intention for all our classes.
Classes follow the traditional structure of a ballet class, moving with our skeletal, muscular, and emotional bodies to find both functionality and space to make wildly imaginative choices.
Queer Ballet is a new approach to the technique of classical ballet that centers and uplifts bodies that have often been othered in dance and the real-world through a queer and contemporary lens, letting queer people co-create worlds, fairy tales, and story ballets of their own.
The class is rooted in a place of collective care and dismantling of the cis-hetero-patriarchy in and beyond the dance classroom. We explore rigor and love towards our queer and trans bodies as we re-engage with an art form that has traditionally been kept away from us. How can re-engaging with this art form be a practice of joy and resistance in equal measure?
Carro Sharkey is a Berlin-based freelance dance artist, teacher, and producer specializing in ballet and contemporary dance. After starting testosterone, Caroline found a renewed connection to ballet, experiencing joy in the art form within a body that aligns with their identity. This personal journey informs their teaching, aiming to share that joy and create a space where others can experience similar empowerment through dance.
Originally from the United States, Carro studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where they were invited to perform with the main company on multiple occasions. From 2020-2024 they worked primarily with Control Group Productions, becoming the Associate Artistic Director where they created and performed multiple immersive and site-specific dance and theater works; performing in abandoned slaughterhouses, moving buses, ball pits, and on the side of a cliff. They have been invited to perform extensively across the US, Germany, Greece, Malta, and India. They believe their job as an artist is to blow over a house of cards from 50 meters away.