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.
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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