Queer Ballet History

Citations and Academic Papers

• Full Paper: Ballet History Through a Queer Lens by Oliver Myers (contact me below for access)
• Site Bibliography
• Honors Thesis Presentation

Books

• A Queer History of the Ballet by Peter Stoneley
• Queer Dance by Claire Croft
• A Sense of Shifting by Yael Malka
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Documentaries, Films, and Videos

• Filling Station by Lew Christensen for Lincoln Kirsten (https://youtu.be/0buSfOmX8OE?si=AGJzZ1Ic-Xlg_-O6)
• Digital Reconstruction of Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’Apres Midi d’un Faune by Christian Comte (https://youtu.be/M1w6cg5I10c?si=iLaMlO06jo3fZTTA&t=184)
• Past, Present, Future: Travesty (https://www.pbs.org/video/travesty-ad-cc-sjbihq)
• New American Romance by James Whiteside for ABT (https://vimeo.com/561334183)
• Oscar by Christopher Wheeldon for The Australian Ballet (https://youtu.be/KcrzWuSNYvY?si=wX2YsNMt00GZXL3m)
• Sous Apparence by Marie-Agnes Gillot (https://numeridanse.com/en/publication/sous-apparence/)
• Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake-Finale clip (https://youtu.be/edSQ5KO_xGw?si=DNN5V4z7bq6zAVNR)
• Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake (https://youtu.be/A0pyD-7-KYQ?si=mGQw4w_Cy7fAtY4s)
• This Is How I Move: Naia-A film by Ballet Queer (https://youtu.be/8kUEwyTctrg?si=UWhQa056-661KpHI)
• Touche by Christopher Rudd for ABT (https://youtu.be/xvek0PVzRMc?si=5z1fctp-EffAL0Kh)
  • Roundtable discussion (https://youtu.be/UgDDgFWnFKo?si=c7flv4Ero0o45_yj)
• Two Slow Dancers-MITSKI Dance Film by Queer the Ballet (https://youtu.be/yX4xgBrOJxM?si=rnHuHvgGo01jgi-i)

Companies and Artists

• Ballet22 (https://www.ballet22.com/)
• Ballez (https://www.ballez.org/)
• Ballet Queer (https://www.balletqueer.com/)
• Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (https://trockadero.org/)
• Queer the Ballet (https://www.queertheballet.com/)

Questions? Suggestions? Contact me below!