Charles Askegard has spent his career perfecting the work of George Balanchine – first as a dancer with NYCB and now as the Philadelphia Ballet’s rehearsal director. The company will be presenting Bold Brilliant Balanchine as part of its commitment to honoring and celebrating its rich Balanchine roots. Askegard spoke about the upcoming program and his time with the Philadelphia Ballet.
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More than one year has passed since the first lockdown was declared in Philadelphia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected everyone’s life in…
View More RESILIENCE (Pennsylvania Ballet): A moment to breathe
The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra
View More ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?
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.
View More THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): 50 years of a holiday treat
Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.
View More GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras
Pennsylvania Ballet invites you to a spectacle of dancers, dancing children, dancing toys, snowflakes, candy canes, and beverages, magic, and color.
View More George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA BALLET): A spectacle of dancers, magic, and color
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.
View More RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers
ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.
View More ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
View More Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
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.
View More George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
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.
View More REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
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.
View More A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line
A holiday tradition for many Philadelphians, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns for another season.
View More THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): A beloved holiday tradition
In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.
View More SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter
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.
View More PRODIGAL SON (PA Ballet): Ballet forward with Corella
Pennsylvania Ballet is only one of just a few companies licensed to do Balanchine’s 1954 classic ballet.
View More Dance ornaments sparkle in Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER (2013)
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…
View More JEWELS (Pennsylvania Ballet): Dance review