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The Right Moves: BalletX’s Summer Series at the Wilma Theater

Perhaps it was a natural cultural chauvinism that kept me away from ballet for so long, even as my sister danced her way through elementary school and my mother eagerly anticipated the next season of the Royal Ballet, and later the Pennsylvania Ballet Company. But just as avant garde operas at the Curtis Institute of Music have led me to reevaluate that art form, contemporary choreography by such Philadelphia companies as Koresh Dance Studio and BalletX have brought out the inner dance fan in me. BalletX’s Summer Series, staged July 23-26 at the Wilma Theater, is a fine exemplar of the possibility and beauty of modern ballet. more…