Hello new friends!!!! Thank you so much for stopping by.
My name is Em and I am a queer professional ballet dancer based in CA/NYC. I forgot I made this blog so long ago, but I’ll do my best to be more active and answer your lovely messages and questions!
A little QB history:
My good friend and then-partner Jess and I started the Queer Ballerinas Instagram page and blog in January 2017. Our goal was/is to create more LGBTQ+ representation in the ballet world. Being queer (I use this as an umbrella term), especially queer femme and trans/nonbinary, can be such an isolating experience in the ballet world due to its historically heteronormative and rigidly gendered culture.
As of now, I’m dancing and teaching as much as I can from both coasts as well as running the QB online pages, coordinating meetups, and learning how to produce a PODCAST (coming early 2019, woo!). If you’d like to keep up with Jess, she’ll happily welcome you to her website or IG page, Queer Ballet Collective.
If you’d like to read previous blog posts and learn more about how QB came to be, feel free to visit the QB website. You’ll find loads more information there :-)
If you have any questions or just want to say hello, please do reach out!
Much love to all,
Em
(PS: Photography by Joerg Didlap)