STRIPPED: A new wave ballet by Kelleia Sheerin

If you take the legendary music of the 80s & 90s, thunder and lightning, and a steamboat, and a sunset, and a buzz saw, and mix ‘em up and put ‘em into a young woman, that’s STRIPPED!

Set to iconic new wave music, STRIPPED is not merely a ballet; it is urban mythology carved in movement. A love letter to Los Angeles and Los Angelenes, STRIPPED is the heroine’s journey of Vivi, a warrior-child whose armor and starlight exist in the same space. A story about searching for one’s true self in a world that peddles counterfeit gods at every neon-lit corner, STRIPPED captures the raw electricity of transformation, the grinding beauty of a soul being stripped down to its essence, then rebuilt through the alchemy of connection, grace, music & dance. Exploring themes of fame, family, addiction & healing – the very frequencies that new wave music channeled into sound, now channeled through a choreographic vision into a poetry of movement – a dance that was always living inside the music.