Ballet dancing drag queens: Edge Hill University produce "The Buttcracker"

By The Newsroom
Published 13th Nov 2018, 09:57 BST
Updated 13th Nov 2018, 12:09 BST
Moira Shearer, who played Vicky Page in Powell and Pressburgers The Red Shoes, is another of our heroes, and was a British ballerina who made the move from ballet to film stardom. Here, Mark portrays Moira, who plays Vicky, who is which is portrayed in the wonderful ballet-within-the film. This photograph is thus a performance within a performance within a performance within a performance... No wonder Mark and Vicky feel like theyre going mad.Moira Shearer, who played Vicky Page in Powell and Pressburgers The Red Shoes, is another of our heroes, and was a British ballerina who made the move from ballet to film stardom. Here, Mark portrays Moira, who plays Vicky, who is which is portrayed in the wonderful ballet-within-the film. This photograph is thus a performance within a performance within a performance within a performance... No wonder Mark and Vicky feel like theyre going mad.
Moira Shearer, who played Vicky Page in Powell and Pressburgers The Red Shoes, is another of our heroes, and was a British ballerina who made the move from ballet to film stardom. Here, Mark portrays Moira, who plays Vicky, who is which is portrayed in the wonderful ballet-within-the film. This photograph is thus a performance within a performance within a performance within a performance... No wonder Mark and Vicky feel like theyre going mad.
Edge Hill University academics are challenging the image of ballet by re-creating and queering photos of ageing and fat dancers in The Buttcracker.

Rupturing the traditional image of thin, heterosexual, athletic, young dancers, Mark Edward and Helen Newall have constructed photos of famous ballets and songs renaming them Gaysell (Gisele), La Sifilis (La Silfide) and Sugar Bum Fairy (Sugar Plum Fairy).