The Project
The “Peabody Ballroom Experience” is a public humanities collaboration between the George Peabody Library and Baltimore’s ballroom community.
Events
- Film screenings and roundtable discussions
- The Ball
Workshops
- Workshops and presentations by Hopkins library staff
- Vogue workshops with the Peabody Dance Department
Publications
- 15 oral histories with Baltimore’s ballroom community
- A documentary film and printed project catalogue
The 2019 Ball
Hosted by Peabody Library
On April 13, 2019, the ballroom community gathered in the historic George Peabody Library for a one of a kind ballroom experience. Opened in 1878, Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books” features five tiers of cast-iron balconies, rising dramatically to a massive skylight 61 feet above the floor. Ballroom competitors brought to life a selection of the Library’s collection of over 300,000 books, dating from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Read about the process in a three-part blog post: part one, the ball; part two, Peabody Dance; part three, the oral histories.
