by and with Anna Basti
cover photo Fabio Artesi

What happens if ballet is stripped of its whites, bars, bows, mirrors, tips, wood, repertoires, forced smiles? What happens if it is poured into the spaces of the city? If it becomes an instrument for all possible and imaginable bodies? With Le classique c'est chic we move within the urban landscape, maintaining the structure of the typical ballet class, but declined in the furnishings and spaces of the city. Bassano is rethought as an enormous space for diagonals and manèges, where classical technique is available to all, as a magnificent tool for understanding the body.