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Constellations and Influences: Katy Pyle

May 23, 2013

In 2012 Danspace Project presented two historic Platforms, Parallels and Judson Now. In 2013 we continue to explore artistic constellations and lineages. What web of connections do new generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? This season we ask each artist to share a significant artistic influence.

Photo: Chrissy Pessagno

Katy Pyle:
Julie Atlas Muz’s Rite of Spring, Jon Benet Ramsay version at DTW 2004
Adrienne Truscott and the Wau Wau Sisters
Split Britches – Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver
John Waters and his use of saturated/garish colors and people

Choreographers/makers I’ve worked with (luckily I’ve been able to work/for/with a lot of my inspirations) – Karinne Keithley, John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Ivy Baldwin, Faye Driscoll, Katie Workum, Young Jean Lee.

Feminist Artists – Le Tigre, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Karen Finley

Kitsch N*Sync, my Drag King band with Isabel Lewis, Ann Liv Young, Gina Tai, Ashlea Hitchcock

asubtout, my dance band with Eleanor Hullihan

Donna Faye Burchfield – my professor for undergrad at Hollins University

Riot Grrls

Rita Bobby who runs Downtown Yarns, and has consistently created a real, living, community space for creation in the East Village for over 10 years.

Rupaul’s Drag Race

Theater and Dance community in Austin growing up

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Katy Pyle and the Ballez Company’s The Firebird, a Ballez runs May 16-18, 2013