Katy Pyle is a genderqueer lesbian dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Pyle has been dancing professionally in NYC since 2002, performing in the works of John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, Faye Driscoll, Ivy Baldwin, Xavier Le Roy, and Young Jean Lee. Pyle founded Ballez in 2011 to push ballet towards an inclusive future. Pyle has choreographed multiple large-scale ballets for Ballez commissioned by The Joyce, Danspace Project and La Mama, and has been awarded grants from NYSCA, Harkness, Mellon Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, United Artists and the Hodder fund, and has received residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Gibney, MTA, BAX, Abrons and La Mama. They have brought Ballez classes, artist talks, and repertory to Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Bowdoin, Whitman, Tisch/NYU, Slippery Rock University, Rutgers, ScenSverige, Swarthmore, and Berea College. Pyle currently teaches ballet at Eugene Lang and Marymount Manhattan Colleges, and professional dancers at Gibney Dance.
