Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Celebrations abound in Bodiography Contemporary Ballet's 10th season, which begins this fall.
Maria Caruso originally conceived the company as a performance outlet for dancers who didn't have a stereotypical (thin) ballet body. In recent years, she has been inspired by and collaborated with doctors to create ballets on health-related topics. One of them, "Heart: Function vs. Emotion," was the subject of a film that was a finalist in a Hollywood film competition in June.
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This is an interesting article and it also sounds like an interesting company. It makes me wonder if one needs to be thin in order to do ballet, is a true ballerina only one that starves themselves and works out religiously? I guess not according to this company although there is something to be said ascetically for watching insainly thin people to amazing tricks. I wonder what their body conscious ballets are like, it is almost a slap in the face to ballets around the world. I think that there is something to be said for changing the face of ballet.
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