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STORY BALLET is a surreal dance theater quintet performance featuring an intergenerational cast, phantasmagoric holographic projections and live sound. The work examines Hector Berlioz’s 1830’s Symphonie Fantastique, and re-contextualizes the tale into an evening length contemporary performance exploring the intersection of mental health de-stigmatization and perception, begging the question, what holds us together?

 

The Berlioz composition tells a reflection of an artist's journey through self-destructive obsessions via dreams, thematic repetition, and dynamic emotional landscapes. The work also examines mental health's intersections with societal stereotypes and how they shape our perceptions. We take this epic story framework and reinterpret it through modern day narratives of characters who are dredging through self perspectives skewed by the accumulation of generational trauma intertwined with systemic violence.

 

An incubatory residency for the work was held in Fall 2024 during slowdanger's residency as New Work Development Artists in Residents at Texas A&M’s College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts, and is slated to premiere art Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Fall of 2026.

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directed by: 

taylor knight  | anna thompson

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STORY BALLET collaborating artists:
Theo Bliss |  | Maree ReMalia

Christian Warner​

 

STORY BALLET design collaborators:

slowdanger (Sound)
ProjectileObjects (Visuals)

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advisory committee:

announced soon

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project manager:

Joshua Bristow

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STORY BALLET is supported by Opportunity Fund and the New Work Development Residency at Texas A&M's College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts​​