Press
“#QueerTheBallet has a goal of infiltrating the larger culture of ballet companies, allowing more queer dancers to stand in their power right where they already are.”
— Candice Thompson, Fjord Review
Fjord Review
April 2022
“Identity Embraced”
Adriana Pierce, Remy Young, Lenai Alexis Wilkerson (lifted), and Sierra Armstrong in “Brick by Brick” by Adriana Pierce
New York Times
June 2021
“Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’”
Two Juliets: Audrey Malek, left, and Cortney Taylor Key, rehearsing a duet with the choreographer Adriana Pierce. Credit: Yael Malka for The New York Times
The Guardian
February 2021
“The #QueertheBallet movement: ‘it’s more than a man lifting a woman in a tutu’”
Photo by Rosalie O’Connor
Broadway World
June 2021
“Joyce Celebrates Pride With Rarely Paired Female Dancers Performing ANIMALS & ANGELS Pas De Deux”
IMBY
February 2021
“A gorgeous and groundbreaking pas de deux in process at Bridge Street Theatre”
Seeing Dance
February 2021
“Empowering queer women in ballet: #QueertheBallet”
Conversations on Dance Podcast
February 2021
“Adriana Pierce, Freelance Dancer, Choreographer, and Creator of #Queertheballet”
Photo by Alejandro Gonzalvez
The Dance Edit Podcast
February 2021
“Funding Black Dance, #QueertheBallet, and Martha Nichols”
Photo by Alejandro Gonzalvez
The Dance Enthusiast
October 2019
“Don't Miss ‘I Am Enough’ An LGBTQ Ballet Music Video featuring Dancers Skye Mattox and Georgina Pazcoguin that premiered on National Coming Out Day”
