Katy Pyle is a non-binary genderqueer lesbian dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Pyle has been dancing professionally in NYC since 2002, performing in the works of John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Faye Driscoll, Ivy Baldwin, Xavier Le Roy, and Young Jean Lee, among others. Pyle founded Ballez in 2011 to push ballet towards an inclusive future. Pyle has choreographed multiple large-scale ballets for Ballez, been awarded grants from NYSCA, Harkness, Mellon Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, United Artists, and the Hodder fund, and received residencies at BAC, Gibney, MTA, BAX, Abrons, and La Mama. They have brought Ballez classes, artist talks, and repertory to Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Bowdoin, Whitman, Tisch/NYU, Slippery Rock University, Rutgers, ScenSverige, Swarthmore, and Berea College. Pyle currently teaches ballet at Eugene Lang College and Marymount Manhattan, and professional dancers at Gibney Dance.

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