Baldiga: Unlocked Heart : the story of the queer artist and political activist who sensitively captured the West Berlin queer scene of the 1980s and early 1990s

  I often wonder about what the creative landscape of the planet would look like if all the artists who have died from AIDS had survived. The energy of people like Derek Jarman, Leigh Bowery, Klaus Nomi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring – the list is endless – is so missed. Another artist to add to … Continue reading

Ballet 422

Being plucked from the lowly ranks of the Corps de Ballet to be thrust into the forefront and ask to choreograph a new ballet for the prestigious New York City Ballet is the stuff that dreams are made of. For 25 year old dancer Justin Peck this dream actually became a reality, and filmmaker Jody Lee … Continue reading

Ballet Boys

Ballet Boys is a feature length documentary that follows in the footsteps of three adolescent male dancers as they are about to graduate from the Norwegian Ballet Academy and move on to the next stage of their training. These classmates, who are also very good friends, all love dancing but they are coming to the … Continue reading

Ballet Boyz are heading back to London

  By the time you read this the incomparable all-male Ballet Boyz troupe will literally be jetting back to their London base after their amazing critically-acclaimed sold-out Tour of Florida.  The queerguru team counts themselves very lucky as we saw their performance last Friday night at the South Miami Dade Cultural Center.  It was sheer bliss. … Continue reading

Ballet on the Beach by two Caballeros

  If you ever wondered what ballet dancers do in their down time, in the case of the  members of Miami City Ballet  they simply head straight to the beach.  Here are two of them Neil Marshall & Jovani Furlan in a very erotic piece choreographed by  Principal Dancer Renan Cerdeiro (who also happens to … Continue reading

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