
BALLET HISTORIAN
"Ballet is a serious art form in which plastique and beauty must dominate" - Marius Petipa (1896)

Projects
The Marius Petipa Society
In 2016, I launched my first and most prominent project, a ballet history website dedicated to Marius Petipa. It is called The Marius Petipa Society. I was prompted to start this project in the lead up to Petipa's 200th birthday when it occurred to me that he had never had any kind of platform dedicated to his legacy and to educating ballet lovers everywhere about him and his contributions to the art form. So, after I finished my MA in Ballet Studies, I decided to change that and I created a new website where I could teach balletomanes, ballet artists and anyone involved in ballet about Petipa and his artistic vision. Since starting this project, it has given me many opportunities to travel and to meet and connect with many people, and the project itself has since been expanding to cover not just Petipa, but ballet history in general. The more we know about the past, the more we understand the art of ballet itself.

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Lectures
On several occasions, I have given ballet history lectures to a local ballet school and online:
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Paquita & The Sleeping Beauty - school lecture for the students of High Points Youth Ballet, Belfast (2023)
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Giselle - school lecture for the students of High Points Youth Ballet, Belfast (2024)
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La Bayadère: After Petipa - online lecture in collaboration with Emiko Hirano and Yuko Oi of Osaka University, Japan (2024)
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Swan Lake - public lecture for the Belfast International Ballet Festival, Belfast (2024)
Presentations
Between 2018 and 2019, I had the privilege to speak and present at several international ballet and dance conferences:
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"Hommage à Petipa". Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Saint Petersburg (2018)
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Colloque International: Histoires Connectées de la danse. Dossier n°2. «Circulation d’artistes, d’écritures et de techniques chorégraphiques : Marius Petipa (1818-1910), entre Romantisme, Orientalisme et Avant-gardes» Paris (2018)
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Open Data - Open Access: New Frontiers for Archives and Digital Platforms dedicated to the Performing Arts. Museo Nazionale Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome (2019)
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International Museum Forum in Moscow: "World Theatre; Preservation and Representation in the Museum Space". A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow (2019)
