post-ballet circle

Post-Ballet Circle is a series of six meetings that emerge from the need to imagine and project a shared space for questioning the order of ballet training.

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The sessions create room for creative experimentation, wandering, and play—reconsidering ballet norms and engaging with their choreopolitical potential. We do not teach ballet. We do not expect technical perfection. We are interested in failure as a creative strategy, the body as an archive, and methods of protest through memory.

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We invite people with diverse experiences. The meetings are accessible to different bodies, identities, abilities, and sensitivities. The project is grounded in an egalitarian relationship with participants, opening itself to their knowledge, fantasies, dreams, experiences, fears, and visions of what ballet is, is not, was, will be, and could become. We aim to create a space rooted in radical care—a space that, drawing on informality and error, proposes an alternative pedagogy of classical dance.

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The Circle takes place in two locations:
– CSW Kronika (training through conversations)
– Pałac w Miechowicach (choreographic practices)

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We invite you to a collective intellectual adventure. Let’s be strange together—attending an after-hours, dance-infused circle. It is propaganda wrapped in pink bows. Broken barres, frayed nerves, and the limits of forgetting. Ballet chronicles simulating absent knowledge, where “stupidity and forgetfulness act hand in hand, opening new pathways for being in relation to time, truth, existence, life, and death,” as written by Jack Halberstam in The Queer Art of Failure.