Vaneeesa Blaylock

Vaneeesa Blaylock is a performance artist. Her company performs works in virtual worlds that explore identity, Individuality, and persona in the 21st century. The Company's primary media is live performance but they also produce photography and other media as performance documents. On 17 June 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected from Russia. He would not be allowed to return for the next 28 years. On 21 February 1962 Nureyev and Fonteyn performed together for the first time. They would perform together for the next 26 years. They have defined ballet partnering for all time. Vaneeesa Blaylocks company has put together a recreation of there last performance in SL. By doing this work her company says they are searching for insight into what it means to be alive in the virtual world by channeling two artists who, for a time, they are as alive in the physical world as perhaps anyone has ever been.

 

Vaneeesa Blaylock and her company recreate beautiful work through SL. Her recreation of this performance was very creative and well done. She recreated something that was done over half a century ago and now everyone can appreciate the simplicity and grace of their performance that really shaped art work for ever. Ballet and partner work with ballet was changed forever after this performance so to have it recreated in SL is so cool!