THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): 50 years of a holiday treat
The Nutcracker is not just a lovely holiday tradition. It’s am ambassador for ballet, gaining fans who have never been to seen ballet before.
George Balanchine
GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras
Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.
George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA BALLET): A spectacle of dancers, magic, and color
Pennsylvania Ballet invites you to a spectacle of dancers, dancing children, dancing toys, snowflakes, candy canes, and beverages, magic, and color.
RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers
The company has gone through drastic changes since last season, some of which may have come with sorrow. Still they never stopped their devotion to ballet and to the Philadelphia art community.
ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program
ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.
Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
It uses the same stage, the same music, and the same settings as previous years, but this year’s NUTCRACKER is even more convincing and more magical than before.
REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
Dance is an ever-changing artform: the standard themes change, technique changes,audiences change. Even such key aspects and tools as the body shape of the dancers change.
A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line
It would not be too much to say that this has been one of the most exciting and accomplished seasons in Pennsylvania Ballet’s history.
THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): A beloved holiday tradition
A holiday tradition for many Philadelphians, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns for another season.
SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter
In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.
PRODIGAL SON (PA Ballet): Ballet forward with Corella
New artistic director Angel Corella was able to take full advantage of works by George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon and a premiere from resident choreographer Matthew Neenan, to start to show his retooling of the company.
Dance ornaments sparkle in Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER (2013)
Pennsylvania Ballet is only one of just a few companies licensed to do Balanchine’s 1954 classic ballet.
JEWELS (Pennsylvania Ballet): Dance review
Published by The Dance Journal, reprinted with kind permission. As noted in Lew Wittington’s interview with PA Ballet Artistic Director Roy Kaiser last month, George Balanchine’s iconic JEWELS is an immense undertaking. …
