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Tag: George Balanchine

Dance Music Reviews

ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?

Margaret Darby April 8, 2019 No Comments

The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra

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Dance Reviews

THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): 50 years of a holiday treat

Eri Yoneda December 16, 2018 No Comments

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.

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Dance Reviews

GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras

Christopher Munden April 10, 2018 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.

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Dance Reviews

George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA BALLET): A spectacle of dancers, magic, and color

Ralph Malachowski December 19, 2017 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet invites you to a spectacle of dancers, dancing children, dancing toys, snowflakes, candy canes, and beverages, magic, and color.

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Dance Reviews Theater

RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers

Eri Yoneda May 15, 2017 No Comments

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.

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Dance Reviews

ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program

Eri Yoneda April 9, 2017 No Comments

ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.

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Dance Features Reviews

Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION

Lily Kind December 23, 2016 1 Comment

Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.

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Dance Reviews

George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents

Eri Yoneda December 12, 2016 2 Comments

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.

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Dance Reviews

REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind

Eri Yoneda November 13, 2016 No Comments

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.

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Dance Reviews

A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line

Eri Yoneda May 16, 2016 No Comments

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.

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Dance Reviews

THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): A beloved holiday tradition

Eri Yoneda December 13, 2015 No Comments

A holiday tradition for many Philadelphians, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns for another season.

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Dance Reviews

SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter

Eri Yoneda October 24, 2015 No Comments

In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.

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Alexander Peters in George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son." Photo credit: Alexander Iziliaev.
Dance Reviews

PRODIGAL SON (PA Ballet): Ballet forward with Corella

Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal February 6, 2015 No Comments

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.

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The Nutcracker. PA Ballet.
Dance

Dance ornaments sparkle in Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER (2013)

Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal December 17, 2013 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet is only one of just a few companies licensed to do Balanchine’s 1954 classic ballet.

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Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
Dance

JEWELS (Pennsylvania Ballet): Dance review

Kat Richter for The Dance Journal November 3, 2013 No Comments

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…

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