Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, one half of hip-hop duo OutKast, is collaborating with America's oldest ballet company, Atlanta Ballet, on a hip-hop-inspired ballet. Big, which premiered last week in Atlanta to rave reviews and is expected to tour Europe, sees Patton performing live on stage alongside a series of new ballet set-pieces by the company's choreographer, Lauri Stallings. The music includes Patton's unreleased single Sir Lucious Leftfoot Saves the Day and a fusion of Guiseppe Verdi's La Traviata with the OutKast track Morris Brown. For Atlanta Ballet's artistic director, John McFall, it is a natural partnership. "Hip-hop is a defining element of Atlanta," he says. "It only makes sense that the two art forms would come together at some point."
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