#14 What does it look like when a b-boy explores alternative ways of doing ballet?

Fusion of ballet and hip hop is so cliché! Girls on pointes plus b-boys turning on their heads.

From my point of view, fusion is like scrapbooking or making a collage, you mix and match steps, music or expressions from different styles but you don't really create anything genuine. Creating a brand new language, inspired from different disciplines, is really challenging and much more interesting.

In this episode, Joseph Simon tells us about his dance and choreographic research called Ballet Fantasies.

Mentioned in this episode:
• ArtEZ
• Limón Technique
• Ballet Fantasies
• Ballets Russes
• Sticky Feet
• Le Faune
• Ballet, breaking, popping, hip hop, house dance
• Dansateliers
• Vaslav Nijinski
• Claude Debussy
• Stéphane Mallarmé

Find Joseph Simon on Instagram.