the Off Center project.

Paige Caldarella is an independent choreographer making project based work under the umbrella of The Off Center Project. Caldarella's work integrates classical ballet with chance and abstraction as well as modern dance vocabularies to mine deeper meaning from traditional ballet technique. By diversifying and humanizing the effort being showcased onstage, the Off Center Project examines the heteronormativity propagated by traditional ballet and gives a home to those proposing new ideas about gender, body type, and identity. We are interested in the ways in which traditional ballet can be made more vibrant and current by intersecting and relating it to other forms of movement.

 

 

 

All photos below credited to William Frederking.