Georgia Parsons

Georgia Parsons is a senior dance major with a concentration in performance and a minor in somatics. She began her dance education at the New Orleans Ballet Association, where she primarily trained in ballet alongside modern dance techniques such as Horton and Graham. Her senior project engages in critical reflection and inquiry around the history and practice of ballet training. Drawing from personal experience and research, Georgia investigates her own relationship to ballet while considering the broader historical systems that inform the form. Ballet-centered training has long upheld hierarchical, gendered, racialized, and disciplinary structures that influence who is valued, who is visible, and how bodies are asked to move.  

Through a research-based creative process, Georgia questions these traditions and imagines alternative possibilities for dance education. By using dance on film as a medium, the work disrupts conventional perspectives and invites viewers to reconsider the hierarchies embedded in classical training. This screen dance will envision new ways to bring ballet education into the twenty-first century.