Claire Kretzschmar is the artistic director of Ballet Hartford and a former soloist with New York City Ballet. Openly Catholic in her artistic vision, she is leading a significant renewal of sacred imagination in the arts, seeking to recover the unity of beauty, discipline, embodiment and transcendence through classical ballet.
Her recent work, Ode for St Cecilia, reflects this ambition particularly clearly: a choreography animated by artistic and theological conviction, dedicated to beauty.
Jan C Bentz: Claire, it is a real pleasure to speak with you about your work, about dancing and about faith. Let me begin very simply: when did it all come together for you? When did you begin to realise that art, beauty, faith and God belong together?
