As Angel Corella’s first season with Pennsylvania Ballet draws to a close, it’s safe to say that his tenure as the company’s artistic director is off to a very impressive start.
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Kate Watson-Wallace Mashes Up Dance at FringeArts
Choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace returns to FringeArts June 4-6, 2015, with MASH UP BODY,a contemporary dance piece that examines the evolution and destruction of identity. Now based in…
View More Kate Watson-Wallace Mashes Up Dance at FringeArtsRhythm on Tap: Take It Away Dance premieres CROSS RHYTHMS
Take It Away Dance’s latest full-length project is one of a series of contemporary tap performances the group has presented since 2007
View More Rhythm on Tap: Take It Away Dance premieres CROSS RHYTHMSStriptease Fundraiser: A true story
Henrik Eger tried to go to a fundraiser for Hidden River Arts… and ended up at a burlesque show instead.
View More Striptease Fundraiser: A true storyUndercover Circus in a West Philly Park: Tangle Movement Arts at Clark Park Farmers Market
The show will feature acrobats disguised as normal visitors to the popular Clark Park Farmers Market,
View More Undercover Circus in a West Philly Park: Tangle Movement Arts at Clark Park Farmers MarketThere’s No Bizness like SHOWBIZ: Sebastian has a new show
Sebastian describes SHOWBIZ as “part theater, part concert special, part social commentary extravaganza.”
View More There’s No Bizness like SHOWBIZ: Sebastian has a new showA TRIBUTE TO JEROME ROBBINS (PA Ballet): Perfect for Mother’s Day
Most balletomanes credit Balanchine with capturing the American spirit in ballet, but to me it’s Jerome Robbins who deserves the accolades.
View More A TRIBUTE TO JEROME ROBBINS (PA Ballet): Perfect for Mother’s DayDUST (Megan Bridge/FringeArts): All we are
Evidence of life. Enemy of the domestic goddess. Culprit of hay fever. The stuff we’re all destined for. DUST has connotations both mundane and eternal.
View More DUST (Megan Bridge/FringeArts): All we areHAVING OUR SAY… (Philadanco): Five dances resonate
Republished by kind permission from The Dance Journal. Philadanco had a roller-coaster winter when the heating system at their company studios blew out to the…
View More HAVING OUR SAY… (Philadanco): Five dances resonatePhiladelphia Hosts World Dance Day
International Day has grown into a weeklong celebration of dance that commences on April 22 and finishes on April 29,
View More Philadelphia Hosts World Dance DayTHE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern life
The challenge for EgoPo director Brenna Geffers was to make a play which must have been theatrically and politically radical a century ago relevant to a 21st-century audience.
View More THE HAIRY APE (EgoPo): The cage of modern lifeRevolutionary Theater, Dance, and Circus: NICE AND FRESH at Cliveden historic house
This month, Cliveden opens its historic grounds for a two-night engagement of new performing arts.
View More Revolutionary Theater, Dance, and Circus: NICE AND FRESH at Cliveden historic houseSWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classic
If you want to see the traditional ballet form challenged but simultaneously upheld then Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of the Tchaikovsky classic is just the ticket.
View More SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classicNo Elephants in This Circus: Lauren Rile Smith talks about Tangle Movement Arts’ circus-theater cabaret TELL IT SLANT
Lauren Rile Smith talks about circus, feminism, and whether or not there will be large mammals at Tangle Movement Arts TELL IT SLANT.
View More No Elephants in This Circus: Lauren Rile Smith talks about Tangle Movement Arts’ circus-theater cabaret TELL IT SLANTROCCO (ICKamsterdam/FringeArts): Choreographic gloves come off
Philly dance fans were ringside for the fights last weekend for ROCCO, an exhibition of choreographic pugilism
View More ROCCO (ICKamsterdam/FringeArts): Choreographic gloves come offBLACK SWAN (Dance Iquail): Tutus as Afros just aren’t enough!
Dance Iquail used the tutu, which is an iconic costume in classical ballet, placed it atop the heads of the dancers and shifted its representation from a symbol of white ballet to a symbol of black pride.
View More BLACK SWAN (Dance Iquail): Tutus as Afros just aren’t enough!Nora Gibson’s dance by the (prime) numbers
“I respect how mathematicians approach their work and I feel I have a kinship with that in my approach.”
View More Nora Gibson’s dance by the (prime) numbersYo Adrian! ROCCO boxing-dance hits FringeArts
Created by acclaimed Dutch choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten, ROCCO pits male dancer-fighters against one another in a suite of choreographed bouts
View More Yo Adrian! ROCCO boxing-dance hits FringeArtsWINTER SERIES 2015 (BalletX): Sizzling Despite the Snow
BalletX is on fire. Their winter series provides Philadelphia with the perfect antidote to the cold-weather blues.
View More WINTER SERIES 2015 (BalletX): Sizzling Despite the SnowTHE VULGAR EARLY WORKS (Chelsea & Magda): Sex, society, slapstick
Chelsea & Magda speak directly from their vaginas. If you’re not into that kind of thing, don’t see THE VULGAR EARLY WORKS.
View More THE VULGAR EARLY WORKS (Chelsea & Magda): Sex, society, slapstick