Writing A Letter, Akerman Ballet Act 1 by Collier Schorr

*Coming soon! Presale begins in Summer 2026, or you can order the 2026 subscription now.* For many years, Collier Schorr has been creating a ballet inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film Je, tu, il, elle. Following the film’s themes of transparency, sexuality, shame, and love, Schorr has directed a piece consisting of videotaped dances in which she includes herself as a character alongside her fellow dancers. “Akerman played herself in Je, tu, il, elle,” she says, “because she knew no actress could be as awkward as she was. I feel the same.”Incredibly intimate, risky, and questioning aspects of age, gender, and racial norms historically underrepresented in ballet, Schorr wanted “to tell another story, based on the ones that Chantal Akerman had told me, about power and desire and compulsion and essentially free speech in the male-dominated field...” In Writing a Letter, Akerman Ballet, Act 1, Schorr has pulled a large collection of film stills from the first act of this ballet. Published as