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He said she said: Grayson Perry’s brush with the ballet

The Art Newspaper
13 April 2016
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The gender-bending artist Grayson Perry seems an appropriate choice to create the front cloth for the English National Ballet’s programme She Said, three new pieces choreographed by Aszure Barton, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Yabin Wang, running 13 through 16 April at London’s Sadler’s Wells. The ballet’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo, cited the artist’s “wonderful insight into different forms of identity” in her statement on the commission. The artist, who began the work before the dance trilogy was completed, said in a statement that “a lot was left to my imagination”. His mental wanderings led him to a depiction of a central female character “in a landscape of phalluses. It is quite jolly and there is no rational explanation.”

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