“A black swan is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Devon Dikeou, Pirouette and Between the Acts: Jimmy Kimmel with the Black Swan at the Artist’s studio in NYC
Prima Ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet Holly Dorger in collaboration with Devon Dikeou at the American Academy in Rome, 2024/25
Another collaboration was with the prima ballerina, Holly Dorger, of the Royal Danish Ballet. When she visited the Academy, I invited her to do a pirouette and a leap. What she did was a wonderful improvisational performance that ended with me asking for just a bit more, that fantastic leap, all the while Bea, an intern at the Rome Sustainable Food Project, sliced 100 pounds of roast beef on a professional meat slicer, and I made sandwiches for my performance piece, One Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef. I loved sharing dance and food with two other amazing types of creatives . . . It was a great three-way . . . One with someone I just met (Bea) and the other my cousin (Holly), who I know in a forever way.
