Origins at New York Live Arts

Renversons is a new contemporary ballet company reimagining what a ballet company can be. Rooted in care, collaboration, and artistic integrity, Renversons creates work that both honors and talks back to the ballet canon. 

The company’s inaugural program, Origins, highlights Renversons’ mission to expand ballet’s possibilities through conceptual storytelling and innovative movement. The mixed-bill program features four bold new contemporary ballet works choreographed by Artistic Director Minnie Lane and Guest Choreographer Adriana Pierce, former Miami City Ballet dancer and founder of Queer the Ballet.

Recreation, choreographed by Minnie Lane, draws inspiration from social dances across time, restaged for the ballet stage and performed in sneakers to a lively folk soundtrack. The Gallery, also by Lane, explores community and perception, set to the experimental sounds of Electric Fields. Adriana Pierce’s new quartet Kiss the Rhythm, set to music by the New York–based duo big dog little dog, examines repetition and ritual as a pathway to self-soothing. Bury Your Gaze, a reimagined 20-minute expansion of Lane’s acclaimed short work, reframes mythic narratives through a distinctly queer lens and features music by Jean-Michel Blais.