PETITE MORT and World Premieres (Pennsylvania Ballet): Lamentation and Revolution
The exuberant choreography was spectacular, the dancers striking, and the dramatic finale stirred the viewers’ imagination.
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A World Premiere by a Pennsylvania Ballet Dancer: Interview with Russell Ducker
The experienced dancer and aspiring choreography spoke to Phindie days before his world premiere.
JEWELS (PA Ballet): A dazzling season finale
Pennsylvania Ballet closed its 2017-2018 season with George Balanchine’s masterpiece, JEWELS
GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras
Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.
SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): Pennsylvania Ballet refined through the classic
SWAN LAKE is the classic that people think of when they hear the word “ballet.”
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.
Theater in Sketch: ON EDGE (PA Ballet)
Pennsylvania Ballet’s new program, On Edge, is now at the Merriam Theater until November 12. Few companies could rehearse and mount a modern dance program only weeks after their Sleeping…
ON EDGE (PA Ballet): Cutting-edge ballet by three striking choreographers
What is normal or abnormal? What is black or white? What is right or wrong? Or are those ideas all meaningless in this chaotic world?
Challenges, Chances, Changes—Gender Equity in Concert Dance: Interview with Helen Pickett
Renowned choreographer Helen Pickett talks about her experience as a dancer and choreographer and her vision for younger people in the dance world
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.
THE DELPHI PROJECT ANNUAL PERFORMANCE (with PA Ballet): Child’s play
Art is a way to express the truth. The truth of our emotions. The truth of our lives. The truth of ourselves.
LE CORSAIRE (PA Ballet): A flamboyant and passionate ballet of the pirates
Pennsylvania Ballet’s LE CORSAIRE is as gorgeous and breath-taking as it should be.
Choreographic Workshop (PA Ballet): Dance beginnings from Pennsylvania Ballet
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.
Edgar Anido on his Choreographic Workshop with PA Ballet II
Some of the talented choreographers took a moment to talk to Phindie about their choreographies and their thoughts.
Russell Ducker on his Choreographic Workshop with PA Ballet II
My choreography is inspired by Shel Silverstein’s poetry and its style is musical
Alexandra Hughes on Her Choreographic Workshop with PA Ballet II
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.
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.
