Join me this week as I welcome esteemed Choreographer, Julia Gleich! Julia, with Jason Andrew, is the co-founder of Norte Maar in Brooklyn and co-produces a collaborative ballet series every year called CounterPointe. This year marked the exciting 10th anniversary of the project. The series features 7 dances created through intense collaboration between 7 women choreographers and 7 women visual artists. Visual artists participate the entire way through the process and even create props for the performance.

As a dance newbie, I asked her many questions about using the rectangle of the stage, the types of props she uses, how she picks the music, and even her thoughts on ballet and the patriarchy. We found so many parallels between dance and visual art, like the importance of courting chaos, breaking out of what's expected, and the importance of putting your head down and making the work no matter what.

Some links to learn more:

Julia's Website: Gleich Dances

Norte Maar: CounterPointe

Julia's Instagram: @juliagleichdances (see reels to watch 2020 "Shaking the Trees" at the Tang Museum)

Norte Maar Instagram: @nortemaar (see reels to watch all of "Counter Pointe 10" and "Colibri")

Julia's Vimeo: user7031442 (watch "Unis Mundi: Survival Ceremonies")

Julia's Ballet Class: Beginners' Ballet Class at Peridance NYC

Apply to CounterPointe: (as a choreographer or visual artist ): nortemaar@gmail dot com

Extra links: Mira Schor 's "A Year of Positive Thinking" Blog post: "The Osage Tree", ⁠and Nicole Cherubini & Meg Lipke at the Tang Teaching Museum⁠

Julia's writings with Molly Faulkner appear in: the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, an anthology for Intellect Books (Re)Claiming Ballet, and on vectors in the Dynamic Body in Space.

Dances mentioned: "Unus Mundi: Survival Ceremonies," w/ Meg Lipke University of Buffalo, "Colibri," w/ Tamara Gonzales CounterPointe 10/Mark O'Donnell Theater, "Shaking the Trees" w/ Nicole Cherubini & Meg Lipke Tang Teaching Museum, "100 Digits of PI" danced by Michelle Buckley

Dancers/Choreographers mentioned: Choreo: Serge Diaghilev & Vera Nemtchinova of Ballets Russes, Lynn Parkerson of Brooklyn Ballet, George Balanchine of New York City Ballet, Rudolf von Laban, Antony Tudor, Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Dancers: Gabrielle Lamb, Michelle Buckley, Audrey Borst, Timothy Ward, Kara Chen, Sara Jumper, Margot Hartley, Dianna Warren, Mikalla Ashmore, and shout out to all others who performed in the pieces we discussed

Artists mentioned: Tamara Gonzales, Meg Lipke, Nicole Cherubini, Etty Yaniv, Amanda Browder, Sharon Butler, Marc Chagall. Fernand Léger, Elisabeth Condon, Kiana Vega, Paula Part; also Fashion Designer, Liliana Casabal of Morgan Le Fay

Composers mentioned: Amery Kessler and Andrew Hurst

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Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: ⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s⁠⁠⁠⁠

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