Ballet Dancer, Choreographer & Artistic Director of Hack Ballet, Briar Adams celebrates diversity & equality, tradition & originality - Ballet & Dance Podcast
Summary: It is inspiring to see young dancers taking their futures into their own hands, creating their own companies and creating their own work.<br> Australian born Briar Adams is one of those inspiring ballet dancers. She left her home country to embark on a dance career in London – one of the toughest dance centres in the world – and alongside a successful 15 year career, Briar also created her own dance company, ‘<a href="https://hackballet.com/">Hack Ballet</a>’. <br> Now in it’s 6th year, Hack Ballet maintains it’s mission of a strong aesthetic vision of the world as it is and as it could be – celebrating diversity and equality, tradition and originality.<br> As a choreographer, Briar creates thought provoking work, that blends classical ballet and contemporary dance techniques to create athletic, lyrical dance with a focus on social issues.<br> Listen to Briar talk about her dance journey, growing up and studying dance in Australia and her experience of coming to the UK and carving out a dance career and finding her own dance tribe.<br> Briar also shares her inspiration and experience of creating Hack Ballet and talks about her roles of Artistic Director, choreographer and dancer.<br> PRESS PLAY!<br> <a href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/djwpodcasts/1wwwod/Hack+Ballet.mp3">https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/djwpodcasts/1wwwod/Hack+Ballet.mp3</a><br> <br> Hack Ballet goes to Edinburgh Festival Fringe<br> <br> Briar has also set out to take Hack Ballet to this year’s <a href="https://www.edfringe.com/">Edinburgh Festival Fringe</a>, to present 15 performances of “Elicitations”, a triple bill showcasing: To The Edge, Argil and Grace.<br> Watch the video and <a href="https://australianculturalfund.org.au/projects/take-hack-ballet-to-the-fringe/">support Hack Ballet by contributing to their tour fund</a>! <br> <br> <br> Briar Adams. Photo by James Markland<br>
