LAUREN KAY

This video was directed by Lauren Kay. It was shot and edited by Nicholas Guldner.

Meet , where the grotesque and the beautiful collide in exciting ways.

The choreographer celebrates several of his families

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Inside their visually astonishing new work

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Integrating a wide variety of art forms in a collaborative process, the troupe is helping erase notions of ballet as old-fashioned or uptight. Take its latest premieres: Invisible Divide , a full company piece set to songs by music director Ellis Ludwig-Leone and inspired by the photographs of Paul Maffi, and an as-yet-unnamed second ballet, which echoes the photographs of Dafy Hagai with music by

“I was at once struck by how alien and yet how familiar the music was,” says the NYC-based choreographer. “It’s paradoxical, considering there were instruments we’d never even seen. But folk art spans the world, and from the Irish jig to the dances and music in Kyrgyz, it connects us.”

Camille A. Brown’s new work celebrates the entire scope of a black woman’s life