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.
Art is a way to express the truth. The truth of our emotions. The truth of our lives. The truth of ourselves.
Pennsylvania Ballet’s LE CORSAIRE is as gorgeous and breath-taking as it should be.
Not only successful as a forum to provide opportunities and experiences to young choreographers and dancers, the Choreographic Workshop was also very well done as a performance.
Some of the talented choreographers took a moment to talk to Phindie about their choreographies and their thoughts.
My choreography is inspired by Shel Silverstein’s poetry and its style is musical
Pennsylvania Ballet II is performing four new dance works created on the dancers of the company by four talented choreographers with deep connection to Philadelphia ballet scene.
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.
The ballet shows the brave and caring intention of artistic director Angel Corella to the company and the Philadelphia ballet fans.
The Trenton-based dance company DanceSpora premiered two works at the Fringe Festival.
REV invited us to chase characters through the Forest of Arden against a backdrop of South Philadelphia’s urban skyline.
For the last program of Pennsylvania Ballet’s 2015-2016 season, Angel Corella challenges both the dancers and the audience with the four experimental dances
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 dancer for Trisha Brown Company details the experience of setting Brown’s work on the Pennsylvania Ballet dancers.
MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance), together with Pennsylvania Ballet brought a hot dance night to the Forrest Theater on an unusually freezing April night.
Based on the beloved novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE has been one of the most popular and challenging ballets for over a century.
“There was really only one option,” laughs the Spaniard. “It could only be Don Quixote.”
Theater in Sketch: HIR (Simpatico) Simpatico Theatre Company's production of HIR by Taylor Mac challenges audiences to reconsider preconceptions of gender identity 
PROJECT DAWN (People’s Light): The hug or the hammer A well-intentioned but dull play about an important legal program in Philadelphia. 
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 
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 
HIR (Simpatico): We are all everything Author’s note: Taylor Mac uses “judy” as a gender pronoun. This review reflects Mac’s preference.
Taylor Mac’s work is unwieldy and absurdist, challenging and unsettling. These elements often w... 
From about 100 entries, winners in twenty-two categories were selected by a panel of twelve judges and announced at the Barrymore Awards ceremony tonight. InterAct Theatre’s Down Past Passyunk won top award and a nod for best original play. The award winner was Inis Nua’s Midsummer with four, including best musical.
