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 showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
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.
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.
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.
A holiday tradition for many Philadelphians, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns for another season.
In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.
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.
Pennsylvania Ballet is only one of just a few companies licensed to do Balanchine’s 1954 classic ballet.
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. …
MOTHER EMANUEL—AN AMERICAN MUSICAL PLAY (New Freedom Theatre): Taking the theater to church New Freedom Theatre honors Emanuel Nine in new musical by creating a gospel celebration that honors their lives 
PROJECT DAWN (People’s Light): The hug or the hammer A well-intentioned but dull play about an important legal program in Philadelphia. 
Theater in Sketch: HIR (Simpatico) Simpatico Theatre Company's production of HIR by Taylor Mac challenges audiences to reconsider preconceptions of gender identity 
Ritchie Valens in THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY: Interview with actor Gilbert Sanchez GILBERT SANCHEZ speaks about his role as Ritchie Valens in the current production. 
FUN HOME (national tour at Forrest Theatre): A study in want There was a perfection to the timing of FUN HOME’s arrival in Philadelphia: Another take on FUN HOME 
By exploring the way performances interact with the world in which they are made, THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF shows how Chekhov can thrive in the wilds of PA.
