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| pronouns = they/them<ref name=":1">[http://www.ballez.org/company/ Bio], retrieved May 17, 2020</ref>

'''Katy Pyle''' is an American ballet dancer and choreographer. They are the founder and artistic director of Ballez, which is a "a radically inclusive queer space" for ballet classes, performances, and community.<ref name="Kravitz">{{Cite web |title=Inside the Movement to Make Ballet a More LGBTQ-Inclusive Space |last=Kravitz |first=Melissa |work=Cosmopolitan |date=29 June 2018 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a19864706/ballez-katy-pyle-gender-fluid-ballet/}}</ref>

Pyle has studied ballet since the age of three.<ref name="Rivera">{{Cite web |title=She Felt Trapped By Ballet’s Gender Rules, And Now Leads An Inclusive And Innovative Troupe |last=Rivera |first=Zayda |work=A Plus |date=28 June 2017 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://articles.aplus.com/the-way-you-move/katy-pyle-ballez-ballet-troupe?format=html}}</ref> While an undergraduate student at Hollins University, Pyle performed as a [[drag]] king and explored post-modern dance forms.

{{quote|Ballet is a very codified set of postures that was designed to make people look “attractive,” in a certain Western European court system with very particular expectations for how women and men should move. The movements themselves are ridiculous, hyper-gendered costumes that you can put on to your skeleton, like drag. I'm combining those aspects in unexpected ways, for example, taking a really powerful leap and then adding this super femme hand gesture on top of it.<ref name="stake">{{Cite web |title=Lez Dance — Ballez Artistic Director Katy Pyle on queering ballet vocabulary in Maine |last=Stake |first=Kristen |work=The Portland Phoenix |date=May 1, 2018 |access-date=May 17, 2020 |url= https://www.conwaydailysun.com/portland_phoenix/arts/dance/lez-dance-ballez-artistic-director-katy-pyle-on-queering-ballet/article_70639528-4d69-11e8-938d-03f2d7f70f52.html}}</ref>}}